"This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker" | ||||
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Single by Maroon 5 | ||||
from the album V | ||||
Released | May 15, 2015 | |||
Recorded | April 2015 | |||
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Length | 3:44 | |||
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Producer(s) | Shellback | |||
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"This Summer Gonna's Hurt like a Motherfucker" on YouTube "This Summer" (Clean) on YouTube |
"This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker" (also known as "This Summer's Gonna Hurt..." or titled "This Summer" or "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherf***er" for its single release) [3] is a song performed by American pop rock band Maroon 5. The fourth single from the album, it followed the reissue deluxe edition of the band's fifth studio album V , on May 15, 2015. [4] Musically, the song has been described as having a "synthpop sound", [1] while incorporating an arena rock style. [5]
On May 6, 2015, it was rumored that Maroon 5 were to release a brand new single titled "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" on May 26, 2015, to radio airplay. The following day, it was confirmed by Billboard magazine in an article stating that "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" would be released ahead of the band's upcoming reissue deluxe of their album V (2014) and will follow the band's previous single "Sugar". [6] On May 11, 2015, the band officially announced that the single would be released on May 15, [7] and on mainstream radio May 19, 2015. [8]
During the May 17–23 tracking week, "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" received approximately 4,216 pop radio spins. That earned it the number 22 position on Mediabase's official pop radio airplay chart. The following week, "Summer" leveraged only two days of airplay to debut at number 35 on the official pop chart. "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" also reached the top 25 at hot adult contemporary radio. After debuting at number 44, the song jumped to number 23 on its second week, after receiving 1,457 tracking week spins. [9] [10] After peaking at number 23, the song became the band's first official single release in five years to miss the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. [11]
The official music video for the song was filmed during a live concert at SSE Arena Wembley on May 28, 2015 and was shot in black-and-white. It was directed by Travis Schneider and Adam Levine. According to Schneider, the video was inspired by the music videos, "I Want Love" by Elton John and "Queer" by Garbage. [12]
The video for the song was released without promo on May 30, 2015. In the video there is a scene where Levine's buttocks are fully exposed. Because of this in the video there is a content warning and the requirement that viewers sign in (to verify their age). [13] It was eventually released on the band's YouTube channel on June 2, without the content. [14] A clean version of the video was released on June 12, 2015. While most of the scene are retained from the original music video, the scenes about nudity, kissing and his mouth speaking profanity has been covered by different emojis, while the word "fucker" has been replaced by "AHA" instead of bleeping the sounds. [15]
The video starts with Adam Levine coming out of the bathroom and going to the cloakroom. After dressing up there, he starts to walk in the corridor. He takes to the stage where the audience greets him and the group performs the song live. When the performance ends the group members descend the stage and go to sit in their cars to go.
The music video was received with positive response from most critics. Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone wrote humorously that the video is revealing for two reasons; "First, it offers a candid look at life on tour through the eyes of Adam Levine as the viewer journeys with the singer from the dressing room to backstage to the edge of the catwalk at a massive arena. Secondly, the video is revealing because Levine flashes some unexpected nudity". [16] Vimal Esvaren of The Record Blog explained: "Another run-of-the-mill concert video, it is told from the perspective of frontman Levine as he leaves the shower, gets ready, goes on stage, performs and gets in a car out of the stadium with the rest of his bandmates. And in between all that he moons viewers for the extra shock factor". [17]
A music video for the song's remix version performed by Circuit Jerks and created by Kidmograph. The video was released on July 31, 2015, by Samsung and later YouTube on January 25, 2016. [18] [19] The version also appeared on the group's EP titled EP1 (2016). [20]
On May 19, 2015, Maroon 5 performed a clean version of the song during the finale of the eighth season of The Voice . [21] Afterwards, the band also performed with the song as an encore for their worldwide concert tour, the Maroon V Tour.
All credits adapted from the liner notes. [23]
Recording [23]
Weekly charts | Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [72] | Platinum | 60,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [73] | Gold | 45,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI) [74] | Gold | 25,000‡ |
Poland (ZPAV) [75] | Platinum | 20,000* |
United States (RIAA) [76] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format | Version | Label(s) | Ref. |
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Various | May 15, 2015 | Digital download |
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United States | May 19, 2015 | Contemporary hit radio | Clean | [8] | |
Germany | July 31, 2015 | CD |
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Various | September 9, 2016 | Digital download | Circuit Jerks Remix | [20] | |
"This Summer (Maroon 5 vs. Alesso)" | ||||
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Single by Maroon 5 vs. Alesso | ||||
Released | June 29, 2015 | |||
Recorded | June 2015 | |||
Genre | Progressive house | |||
Length | 3:11 | |||
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This Summer (Maroon 5 vs. Alesso) on YouTube |
A progressive house version of the song remixed by Swedish producer Alesso, was released on June 29, 2015 on iTunes. The version which was credited as Maroon 5 vs. Alesso. [78]
Alesso explained:
I heard this record and I had to do a version. It's just one of those records you have to turn up so loud it hurts. It's the record of the summer for me!” It looks like Maroon 5 felt the same way about working with the “Heroes (We Could Be)” hitmaker. [79]
Adam Levine also explained about the collaboration of Alesso:
“We are big fans of Alesso's and were thrilled to hear that he would do a remix of the song. We are both friends with [producer] Shellback and have mutual respect for each other so it was cool to be able to collaborate on something together like this.” [79]
On June 20, 2015, Alesso debut the version for the first time at EDC festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. [80] On July 24, 2015, Alesso performed the remix at the Tomorrowland festival in Boom, Belgium.
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [82] | Gold | 35,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format | Version | Label(s) | Ref. |
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Various | June 29, 2015 | Digital download |
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