Love songs you want to listen to in summer. Love songs that color the summer.

Love ParadeORANGE RANGE

ORANGE RANGE “Love Parade” Music Video

ORANGE RANGE is a five-member rock band that has produced numerous hit numbers, featuring a style where rap and singing intersect.

Released in May 2005, this song was used as the theme for the film “Train Man” and topped the Oricon charts for two consecutive weeks.

The lyrics, which depict a slice of everyday life—someone you like coming over to your place—and the explosive joy and confusion at the moment love comes to fruition, are enough to make your heart burn just by listening.

With a gentle yet powerful ballad-like melody, it’s a classic also included on the album “ИATURAL.” It’s the perfect track to supercharge the romantic mood when you listen on a summer night with someone special.

Love Is Like RamuneTaira Rio

Rio Taira – Love is Like Lemonade (Music Video)

This is a coming-of-age love song that poignantly portrays unrequited feelings, set against a summer’s-end fireworks festival.

Released in August 2023, it resonates deeply with listeners alongside its refreshing pop sound.

Rio Taira’s delicate lyrics and melodies seep in with an emotional, heart-stirring warmth.

It’s a song I’d love for anyone harboring secret feelings for someone to listen to while gazing up at the fireworks.

fragrant oliveorenji supainikurabu

ORANGE SPiCE CLUB 'Kinmokusei' Music Video

It’s a song by ORANGE SPINY CLUB that carries the sweet-and-sour pangs of youth and quiet heartache hidden in everyday life on a melody that feels somehow nostalgic.

The lyrical world crafted by Naoto Suzuki evokes faint feelings of love and vivid scenes, like the fragrance of fragrant olive, and seems to nestle close to the listener’s heart.

The track is included on the mini-album “Irat­suku Toki wa Itsudatte,” released in January 2020, and has become widely beloved, surpassing 100 million streams in June 2021.

In June 2023, it was also showcased in a special format on THE FIRST TAKE.

It’s the perfect song for those sentimental late-summer moments, when you listen while layering thoughts of someone dear and memories of youth.

Sparklers ~An August Promise~sonā poketto

Sonar Pocket “Sparklers: August Promise” [MV Full]

A Sonar Pocket song whose wistful late-summer scenery and melodious sound seep into the heart.

Layered over the fleeting glow of sparklers, it delicately portrays memories of dates in Enoshima, holding hands beneath sunset skies, and the sweetly bittersweet recollections of a summer romance.

Released in August 2013 as their 14th single, the track was also aired on TV Asahi’s music program BREAK OUT.

Listen to this ballad on a beach at dusk while tuning in to the sound of waves, or while gazing up at the starry sky, and the beautiful memories of summers past will return, kindling a warm light in your heart.

Blue Hawaiitota

Blue Hawaii / Tota – Blue Hawaii / Tota

This song depicts a faint summer romance.

Released in August 2022, it sets the unspoken, frustrating feelings toward someone you love to a warm band sound.

Some listeners may find themselves overlaying their own bittersweet memories of love onto the image of someone who feels the cicadas’ chorus is far louder than their own feelings.

Featured as an insert song in the dating show “Koisuru ♥ Shūmatsu Homestay 2023 Natsu” and used in a Kao “Essential” commercial, this track invites you to listen while basking in your summer memories.

SUMMER ENDiri

SUMMER END

While rooted in alternative R&B and hip-hop, iri weaves in diverse elements like jazz and soul.

Her husky voice beautifully captures those fleeting moments of melancholy that lurk behind summer’s bustle.

A track released in September 2019 is a perfect companion to the wistfulness of summer slipping away.

The sound she crafted with TAAR and Natsuhiko Muraoka seems to dissolve the fragility of late summer and the frustration of unfulfilled love into a smooth, irresistible groove.

Serving as the theme song for AbemaTV’s romance reality show “Koi no Dorama na Koi ga Shitai ~Kiss to survive~,” it captured many viewers’ hearts when the series began airing that August.

Put it on during a night when fond summer memories suddenly resurface, and it will gently wrap you in a sentimental mood.

Sparklers ~An August Promise~Sonar Pocket

Sonar Pocket “Sparklers: August Promise” [MV Full]

Sonar Pocet, a three-piece hip-hop unit from Nagoya, released their 14th single “Sparklers ~August Promise~” in 2013.

It’s a heartwarming love ballad about a couple doing sparklers in the summer as they make plans for the future and promises for the next year.

The lyrics are captivating, likening a summer memory to sparklers.

The music video features actor Yusuke Yamamoto and is styled as a drama that follows the storyline of the lyrics.

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