If you are merely -- by happenstance -- sharing your disdain for the artist behind what is frighteningly deemed "the song of the summer" (can you tell that we share your derision?) at the same instance that your pal is drooling all over it, by all means, go ahead and let loose.

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Most music fans tend to seek out music that matches the season around this time of year, a song or album that captures the idealized spirit of summer.

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His song, The Israelites, cracked the U.S. singles top 10 during the summer of 1969, the first true Jamaican song to do so.

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The Song of the Whale crew sailed the busy fishing ground of the Baltic Sea for the first time this summer listening for signs of harbour porpoises.

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It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).

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At Song Do Wan summer camp outside the port town of Wonsan on the east coast, Young Pioneers race excitedly to their dorms, unpacking suitcases beneath portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.

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Her song "Change" was selected as a part of the Team USA soundtrack for the 2008 summer Olympics and used frequently in NBC's coverage of the games.

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