♪ -tastes like summer heat;

• an alt pop summer mix; august 2021
• listening time: 1 hour, 7 minutes
• best listened in order; can be shuffled
• photo by greg kantra on unsplash.

♪ -key aesthetics

• visual: warm vintage color palette, driving around in a car with a sunroof/convertible top or the windows down, dancing/dance parties, love(lust?) at first sight

♪ -mix notes

• originally intended to be a summer runaway playlist, eventually morphed into a summer fling that you meet after a breakup.
• the first three songs are supposed to illustrate the breakup between the storyteller and their ex.
  • potentially thinking about adding to this section and fleshing out the end of that relationship
  • thinking about a prequel playlist and moving these three to that one… making tlsh a runaway summer fling focused playlist… hm hm. decisions decisions.
• the next three songs illustrate the runaway to “summerland” and the embracing of just “dancing around.”
• the next seven songs describe how they meet, and the summer flings initial cold reaction to the storyteller and how they inevitably warm up by spending time together
• then followed up by six songs about how they feel about each other before the final song describes the departure from summerland with a plane ride back home and memories of a seemingly endless summer together.

♪ -track list

• imho - flor
• baby blue shades - bad suns
• feels like summer - weezer
• rolled down window - john the ghost
• summerland - half•alive
• dancing around - flor
• turn you on - cherry pools
• tangerine - anarbor
• papercuts - landon conrath
• closer to the sun - betcha
• thoughts from your car - nodisco.
• buzzcut - lovelytheband
• cant be love - whales•talk, the wrecks
• strawberry sunscreen - lostboycrow
• summertime magic - childish gambino
• sticky - the maine
• sunroof - courtship.
• summer rain - good boy daisy
• candy wine - lostboycrow
• heaven is a place in my mind - bad suns

♪ -selection of lyrics; in order of appearance