“It’s May, which means it’s time to start thinking about your summer jam.  Maybe you think this is premature.  But the thing about the summer jam, these days: they’re not not about the summer.  The summer jam has become an alluring dream of what your summer might be, or an elegy for what your summer might have been, or some combination of the two: a fantasy about nostalgia.  The summer jam is about any summer other than the summer you actually have." 

Lara Langer Cohen on what a song needs to be a true summer jam. From our friends at Avidly.org.