Summer of 69 bryan adams4/1/2023 That this song is even considered “rock” is vexing, like accepting that designation makes me complicit. It’s like Adams knew EXACTLY which notes to hit, which pauses to take, even the phony nostalgia. That it is a DAILY fight not to succumb to “Summer of '69’s” hook in this country is one of the reasons it drives me crazy. (Remember how much Justin Bieber had to push “Call Me Maybe” before anyone cared about it?) And people fucking LOVE to sing along to “Summer of '69.” Even on Spotify, this song blows away every other Adams track with more than 850 million streams (the next highest, the Robin Hood song, is half that). And it’s a lot easier to get people to stay on your channel if they can sing along than it is to hook them with something new. That hand I always have on the seek button? That is precisely what radio stations are pushing against. And yet, again, ironically, CanCon rules are the reason my dude gets so much airplay now. “I always thought that it did nothing but breed mediocrity,” Adams said, without irony. “You’d never hear Elton John being declared un-British,” Adams sassed, adding that “it wasn’t until my records were big in America that I started to get serious airplay in Canada.” He suggested the Canadian government get out of the music business, and that CanCon was if anything regressive. In 1992, six years after “Summer of '69” first appeared, Adams got pissy about CanCon (Canadian Content) rules at a local press conference when his sixth album, Waking Up the Neighbors, which produced the biggest hit of his career (the now-dated Robin Hood ditty “ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You," which is so old I had my first dance to it) was not considered Canadian because it was recorded in the UK and co-written by Mutt Lange, who is South African. So what makes a song Canadian enough besides being by Bryan Adams (actually that’s not always good enough, we’ll come back to that in a sec)? The MAPL system-an embarrassingly cutesy acronym for music, artist, production, lyrics-requires that a Canadian song meet at least two of the following four criteria: it was composed entirely by a Canadian, the lyrics were written by a Canadian, the music/lyrics were principally performed by a Canadian and/or the song was recorded/broadcast/performed in Canada. It exists to showcase Canadian music, but more than that to contribute to the development of new Canadian music (through financial contributions from the industry’s $1.15 billion revenue to various local talent funds). (For the national broadcaster, the CBC, it’s 50 percent these rules are not the same for college radio which is why their music is 10,000 times better even though the hosts always sound like they are broadcasting from their mom’s basement.) This rule does not exist just to irritate me. The actual official rule, as stated by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), is that 35 percent of the music broadcast on mainstream radio has to be Canadian. And the rule is that you play “Summer of '69,” whether you like it or not. And yet “Summer of '69” is the song I can’t get away from. 11 despite being actually good, though even then I prefer Elisabeth Moss’s lo-fi cover in Her Smell). 4) and the much better “Heaven” (which also landed at No. ![]() It appeared on Adams’s fourth album, Reckless, on which the bigger song was the almost-as-banal-but-not-quite “Run to You” (even that peaked at only No. ![]() “Summer of '69” wasn’t even Adams’s biggest hit at the time of release (it peaked at No. The song, which is about being torn between rock stardom and some kind of trailer park situation (its title is a reference to fucking, which Adams found fucking hilarious) came out in 1985, which means I have been hearing this pop rock paean to mediocrity for roughly 37 years, a kind of North American–style sonic water torture. With the same scene, the music video Somebody starts.If you have never heard Bryan Adams’s “Summer of '69,” odds are you are not Canadian and also that your quality of life is better than mine. The boyfriend asks "Who was that?" and she says "Nobody". At the end, as a woman and her boyfriend pass Adams in a car, the woman looks after him. The video, partly shown in black and white, shows Bryan Adams trying to create a band and find love. The video appears on Adam's first video album Reckless. Summer of '69 is a music video for the homonymous song from the album Reckless by Bryan Adams.
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