![]() The conversation is an excuse to think about what qualities we’re listening for.īut again, this is completely artificial! America’s current No. Our goal isn’t to name a winner - we’ll discuss a victor in late August, like normal people. We break it down while listening to some of the candidates. And then there’s the question of how to define a summer jam. It’s dangerous to go looking at the beginning of June, since we’ve got more than a month for a winner to declare itself. The hunt for the song of the summer is only slightly less fraught. We talk about this movie’s politics: Does “Wonder Woman” say anything interesting about women? Does it need to? Or might a feminist message be antithetical to what seems to be the movie’s primary goal: to get enough people to see it so that the studio will keep cranking out women-centered movies? “Wonder Woman,” the first female-fronted (and female-directed) superhero blockbuster, is this year’s entry: a movie too important not to see, whether or not it’s any good. For instance: How does the release of a female-driven action movie become a national political event? Still? Last week we got our annual reminder that those artificial demarcations can bring up some real issues. ![]() ![]() Summer is here, and even though categorizing your culture by season feels completely artificial, Americans do it anyway.
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