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Summertime Sadness is a Trip hop act. Their sound grew out of Bruce Springsteen. Those roots explain a lot about how Summertime Sadness arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Miley Cyrus, Marc Almond, Within Temptation and The Chainsmokers, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 5 connections around Summertime Sadness, reaching back through Bruce Springsteen and forward to Miley Cyrus. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Summertime Sadness" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey from her second studio album, Born to Die (2012). It was released on June 22, 2012, by Interscope Records as the fourth single of the album. In the spring of 2013, "Summertime Sadness" reached number one in Poland, Ukraine and Armenia. Charting across Europe, the single reached the top 10 in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. A pop and trip hop ballad, trap and house remixes of "Summertime Sadness" helped Del Rey break into the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In the latter, Del Rey's song became a modest hit and marked her first foray into the dance club chart. On the accompanying Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, the single gave Del Rey her first US number-one single in August 2013. In September 2021, the song was ranked number 456 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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Summertime Sadness connections
Summertime Sadness grew out of Bruce Springsteen, went on to shape Miley Cyrus, Marc Almond, Within Temptation and The Chainsmokers. 5 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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