Summer’s simple pleasures: Roséwave
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This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast. It's summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime. And Lars Gottridge, Marissa LaRusso are back with some sweet summery jams to, uh... Well, I don't know. What does Rosé Wave do for you? What does Rosé Wave do for me? Marissa, do you want to take this?
Oh, my God. I was just about to say, Lars, you start. You are the founder of Rosé Wave.
All right. There's this discussion in Slack about the band Haim. And our colleague Otis Hart said, oh, yeah, they're Rosé core. And I said, no, I think the preferred nomenclature is Rosé Wave. And the idea was not to name a certain style of music, but a style of being where it's just that summery feeling. It's a little easy. It's a little breezy. It's a lot of feeling. It's a lot of... Carly Rae Jepsen-style emotion, but it isn't necessarily pop music. It can be any kind of anything. So it started this series of summer playlists. It's a good shorthand. Yeah.
What is Roséwave and how did the term originate?
Rosé, just rosé. It just says so much. So if people search for Rosé Wave on our site, all one word, you will find literally hundreds of songs handpicked by y'all going back to 2017. That's right. Actually, the song that we've been listening to here, Summertime, Summertime... The 1958 classic by the Jamies. Kind of can't believe you never featured this on any of your plays. It feels a little too much like they're forcing me to have fun. Mandatory fun. That's not what I'm looking for. Well, we should get to some of this new stuff that you brought. And these aren't all new songs necessarily, but Marissa, why don't you start us off with something that you brought?
Hmm, what's the best place to start? I'm going to start with the song Elderberry Wine by the band Wednesday. I love this band so much. This is a band from North Carolina, and they are very proud to be from North Carolina. They have this very country side to their music. And this song is from, I think, that side of the Wednesday discography. It is perhaps the most easy, breezy, warm, young love kind of song on the record. So that all feels very Rosé Wave canon to me.
Sweet song is a long call.
Ain't heard that voice in a long time. Had to check back there to make sure you were alive. Angel home of an electric car. Reverses toward me. Sometimes in my head I give up.
But everybody gets along just fine. Cause the champagne tastes like elderberry wine.
I really love this song. And, you know, we were talking, Lars, about how evocative the word rosé wave is. Like, you instantly know what you're going to get. Right. And this isn't what I assume when I hear the word rosé wave, Marissa.
Oh, really? I don't know. For me, there's just something that's so, like, the ideal way to listen to that song is driving in a car with your friends with all the windows down.
And a glass of wine. Well, okay.
Yeah.
Okay, so maybe you have one designated driver and everyone else has enjoyed some rosé and you're, you know, driving in the car. I don't know. That feels very rosé wave in spirit to me.
Well, I guess what I'm thinking is that when I hear rosé wave, I just assume like nothing but pop bangers or bops, you know, just like you're saying it's a much more complicated vibe than that. It's a feeling. It's a certain kind of sweetness. It's a certain kind of... sadness too, a little bit too. It's like allowing yourself to be in the emotion at the moment that you're having it. And so hanging out with your friends in a car, what a vibe. What a great vibe. And that leads me right into the next song I want to play, which was also a vibe. I was at a community pool with some friends and their kids. And kids were splashing in the pool.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:33
2
What is Roséwave and how did the term originate?
1:33–9:45
3
Which song captures Roséwave’s 'easy, breezy' vibe first in the set?
9:45–20:51
4
Why are the Lijadu Sisters’ 'Come On Home' and its backstory Roséwave-worthy?
20:51–38:06
5
How does Katie Gavin’s 'Aftertaste' exemplify Lilith Faircore and poolside nostalgia?
38:06–40:05