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Facts about “Summer of ’69”Ī&M Records released “Summer of ‘69” on 17 June 1985. It served as the fourth single from Adams’ breakthrough album “Reckless”.īryan Adams wrote the song alongside his long-term collaborator, Jim Vallance. So conclusively, both Adams and Vallance are correct concerning the meaning of this song, despite their definitions seeming to contrast each other. On one hand, it is based on a specific year, as in a certain period of time, which is dubbed the “summer of ’69”. And on the other it is very much about sensual fun, albeit not being forthrightly so. In other words, what made the “summer of ‘69” so memorable in the first place was that the singer was engaged in a very-enjoyable, intimate relationship. But even these shoutouts are ultimately leading to the true story of the song, which is centered on a romance the singer enjoyed in his youth. In fact said (romantic) relationship was so memorable that he considers the particular summer in which it occurred ‘ the best days of his life’. Though in keeping with the overall teenage motif of the track, he rather refers to them as some dudes he played in a band with in high school.

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For instance, Bryan references a couple of his professional co-workers, “Jimmy” and “Jody”. She worried he would turn violent with rejection, but plot twist: our narrator is Canadian.In fact Adams would have only been nine-years old in 1969. So even though this track does have a nostalgic feel, it is not centered on the singer’s early childhood. Rather, what he reminiscences on is meeting a certain lady, with both of them being “ young and restless” and ‘ needing to unwind’. And based on what we already discussed in the first paragraph and indeed the very title of this track, you already know where this is going.īut the song is not entirely about fun in the bedroom. Blond men, they are so pretty when they cry. Our heroine stops returning his calls, unwittingly the catalyst for decades of heartfelt crooning. The chorus, like the relationship, fades to silence.

Adams isn’t listening and thinks she said “forever.” She is not so much holding his hand as not pulling it away. Standing on her mama’s porch… our heroine tells him “whatever,” but Mr. That slow whistle in the background? The sound of her dreams falling sharply to Earth. While he’s been slinging burgers at the drive-in, our heroine has been applying to Ivy League schools, only to learn that in 1969, a mere fraction of these ivory towers admitted women.

The times are changin’, but more doors are still open for our cis-gendered heteronormative Caucasian male narrator. Sometimes when I play that old six-string Adams, a free-spirited artist, is one of those guys who “just doesn’t like condoms.” Our heroine forges her own prescriptions-it’s hard for unmarried women to get the pill in 1969. Adams is referring to sex, then yes, our heroine is restless. I guess nothin’ can last forever-forever, no! But hark-is that far-off stare commitment? Or a catatonic fugue, triggered by the patriarchal expectations of her pending adulthood? Perhaps she remembers her Aunt Jean’s pestering-“When are you going to marry that nice man from the drive-in?” Looking into the middle distance, a hot fury burns in her chest-in 1969, our love interest can’t even get her own credit card. Our love interest-or should we say object, as only the men have names in this song-is pure and steadfast.

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Adams working feverishly in that most destitute of suburban labor camps: the drive-in movie theater. He is “living on a prayer,” “born to run,” and still tethered to the banality of earning a living wage. At least with no-fault divorce becoming legal in some states, Jody’s marriage could now legally end for no reason other than his wife not really liking him anymore, but it still probably wouldn’t be enough to bring him back to the band for at least a few years. Jimmy, Jody-they’re not here for the right reasons. Adams is dedicated but surrounded by hacks. Summer of 1969: Man has walked on the moon the war in Vietnam rages on second-wave feminism is gaining momentum in the United States as women fight for equal rights-all small matters compared to the greatest of love stories… When Boy Meets Guitar.