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By Clara Schossow

Staff Writer

Each year, when the temperatures rise and the days become longer, there is one song that blows up our radios – the song of the summer. This year there was a mix of disco pop songs, thrilling pop rock and meaningful alternative rock ballads. How thrilling, electrifying and beautiful the different songs may be, one question remains at the end of summer, when the days slowly become shorter and the warm temperatures disappear. What was the song of the summer? 

To answer this question, a survey was created on our instagram account to find the song of the summer of 2024 at Hammond. The students could vote in a bracket between ‘Espresso’ by Sabrina Carpenter and ‘Not like us’ by Kendrick Lamar, and between ‘Good Luck, Babe’ by Chappell Roan and ‘Birds of a feather’ by Billie Eilish. These four were some of the most listened songs this year according to the MTV music awards. In addition to these, many other songs were able to secure a place in the category at the MTV music awards. In the end, however, the song ‘Fortnight’ by Taylor Swift and Post Malone won the first place and was named the Song of the summer 2024. 

Compared to that, the results of our survey looked a little different. The four most voted songs at Hammond were ‘Espresso’ by Sabrina Carpenter, ‘Not like us’ by Kendrick Lamar, ‘Birds of a feather’ by Billie Eilish and ‘Good Luck, Babe’ by Chappell Roan. During the first round of the survey, the students could vote between ‘Espresso’ and ‘Not Like us’. The results were very clear. The song ‘Espresso’ by Sabrina Carpenter won with 60% of all votes while ‘Not like us’ was voted by only 40% of the students. It was similar in the second round of the survey. Here the students had the choice between ‘Good Luck, Babe’ by Chappell Roan and ‘Birds of a feather’ by Billie Eilish. In this case the winner was ‘Birds of a feather’ by Billie Eilish with 60% while ‘Good Luck, Babe’ only got 40% of all the votes in this round. If you take a closer look at this, you could say that pop music, such as ‘Espresso’ or ‘Birds of a feather’, is much more popular in the student body of Hammond than hip hop songs like ‘Not like us’ by Kendrick Lamar. 

So if we now draw a conclusion from this survey, we come to the conclusion that the song of the summer of 2024 at Hammond is not ‘Fortnight‘ from Taylor Swift but it is either ‘Espresso‘ by Sabrina Carpenter or ‘Birds of a feather‘ by Billie Eilish. 

But what do people think about the MTV song of the summer? To find that out we started another survey whether people think that that song deserves to be the winner of the MTV song of the summer awards of 2024 or not. What was surprising was that 86% of the votes voted against the song and only 14% said that ‘Fortnight’ from Taylor Swift deserves to be the MTV song of the summer. 

Now that question is finally answered and we can start in the fall. Just like this summer, this season brings a lot of new songs with it and leads us into the time of Christmas songs. A time of cozy winter nights, hot chocolate and listening to music in front of the fireplace. Until we have to answer the same question again – which is the song of the summer.