[Summer Love Songs] Hot and Heart-wrenching! Carefully Selected Summer Tunes of Love That Set Your Heart Ablaze

sea glassSaucy Dog

Saucy Dog “Sea Glass” Music Video <4th Mini Album “Take Me” Released on 2020.9.2>

This song by Saucy Dog leaves a striking impression with a refreshing atmosphere, like speeding along a summer coastline.

While the sound evokes a breezy sense of momentum, it also conveys feelings of sorrow and pain.

The lyrics depict someone looking back on summer memories with a loved one, expressing the anguish of being haunted by those recollections.

Even as the resurfacing past causes pain, the resolve to embrace those memories as something precious gives the song a sense of poignancy and transience.

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BLUE BIRDHamasaki Ayumi

Ayumi Hamasaki / BLUE BIRD (Short Ver.)

With its quiet A-melody, restrained B-melody, and a chorus where the voice soars with power, this song, BLUE BIRD, showcases nothing but Ayumi Hamasaki’s best no matter which part you listen to.

She has other songs that sold more, but I think many fans would say, “This one is my favorite!” The lyrics carry a breeze-like feel—“Even if the road is difficult, if we walk it together…”—and reflect the refined poetic sense of a lyricist who avoids exaggerating love and romance.

The title BLUE BIRD also brings to mind Tyltyl and Mytyl’s The Blue Bird, doesn’t it? It’s a bittersweet yet uplifting track, and the music video—set against a beautiful white-sand beach—is highly recommended.

SUMMER TIME LOVEEXILE

[Full Lyrics Included] SUMMER TIME LOVE – EXILE (monogataru cover)

Released in 2007 as their 24th single, it was featured across numerous media outlets, including as the May 2007 ending theme for NTV programs “Sukkiri!!” and “GOOD LOOKIN’ CLUB.” It’s a song that makes you feel the arrival of summer and inspires you to have a blast.

End of SummerYuuma

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Yuma, also known as a member of the YouTuber group Comdot, released an album in November 2024 titled “Try & Error.” One of its tracks is perfect for the end of summer.

Set against scenes like sparklers and festival music, the song vividly captures memories of summer spent with someone special.

Listening to it even brings back my own memories.

It’s a bittersweet yet warm piece where the melancholy of the passing season mingles with gratitude for having met someone important.

The Day I Became a JewelBUMP OF CHICKEN

BUMP OF CHICKEN “The Day It Became a Jewel”

A song characteristic of BUMP OF CHICKEN that expresses the feelings of a man who only truly felt lonely after the person he loves was no longer by his side.

Comparing the person he loves to lightning conveys just how impactful and significant they were to him—it really hits you in the heart.

You and the summer music festivalSHISHAMO

SHISHAMO “You and the Summer Festival”

SHISHAMO’s “Kimi to Natsu Fes” is packed tight with that longing for a summer romance like this—or to have spent a summer, a youth, like this! It’s so full of dazzling youth that it makes you feel lightheaded.

It’s also one of SHISHAMO’s signature songs, and a track that gets you hyped for summer and festivals.

Just listening to it is blindingly bright, but once you watch the music video, it hits even harder—a quintessential summer love song.

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Summer loveSID

SID 'Summer Love'

It was their sixth single, released in 2007, and it was used as the ending theme for the TV Asahi network program ‘Squeeze!’.

I think the lyrics are very straightforward and have parts you can really relate to.

The simple band sound also resonates pleasantly throughout the track.