Handicapping the Summer Song of 2025

As recently as last year, the Summer Song derby was always good for artist comebacks, from Kid Rock to Enrique Iglesias to Hozier, eventually getting to the point where a song about summer doesn’t even have to be involved. Connie Francis, an unlikely comeback even by the standards of the TikTok era, has been propelled back into pop culture by an album obscurity, but she did have a summer hit about summer around the same time.