The Beach Boys
Surfer Girl

Summer 2023. You're young, the hottest season of the year unfolds before you. What do you want to do if not try to live it to the fullest? So, come on, let's get rid of these damned exams and relax with some good music to lighten the tension. Because there's tension, especially when your relationships with people start to change, and not for the better. All the friendships you thought were solid melt like a popsicle in the June sun. You find yourself less inclined to engage with the world, partly due to the alienating years we're all living through. Wow, why have I never given this band a chance? The Beach Boys are really something, listen to those vocal harmonies. It happens that in a turbulent period, when your love life is awful too, you end up listening to a band from the sixties that you had never considered before. Perhaps it's the season, perhaps it's the thoughts you have that often burn bright. So, you discover new music, in this case old, but it seems to struggle to grow old. Fresh sounds, a succession of chords that ease and tidy up the knots in your heart. The title track ends, play it again. Do it again, it's addictive. But your problem is, you've never been great at English and you let yourself get carried away more by the music than by the words. So, the lyrics slip away, but somehow you understand it must be rightly romantic. But you sail with the notes while the voice of the Wilson brothers sounds so heavenly to you. How perfectly fitting it is! And you start to travel because yes, you're an incurable traveling dreamer, perhaps not very realistic, because you think reality doesn't appeal to you and doesn't match your persona. It's hard, for instance, to find in others those tender, sweet, and innocent feelings that make you fall in love with life and that no one seems to care about anymore. Taking your love by the waist and dancing to the notes of Your Summer Dream. But who cares about this stuff? Probably only you and your daydreams. In fact, you daydream while your mind and heart absorb this delicate and graceful music. Time passes but you don't notice it. You postpone commitments, letting yourself be lulled again and again. You know you should do something to change your life. These are the thoughts that prick and won't let you be, especially when you struggle to be honest even with yourself. You turn to your soul, as good old Brian does in this piece called In My Room. And you might find yourself feeling a thrill that soon moves you. You don't exactly know why, but you empathize with the music. Yes, yes, I'll get back to serious things now, just give me another two or three minutes, just the length of this last song.