“Cool for the Summer” is the lead single from Lovato’s fifth studio album, Confident, released in fall 2015 through a partnership between previous label Hollywood Records, Island Records, and its new subsidiary Safehouse Records, co-founded by Lovato. It peaked at #11 in the US in September 2015, an...
[Verse 1]
Tell me what you want, what you like, it's okay
I'm a little curious, too
Tell me if it's wrong, if it's right, I don't care
I can keep a secret, can you?
[Refrain]
Got my mind on your body
And your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry
I just need to take a bite
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't tell your mother
Kiss one another
Die for each other
We're cool for the summer (Ha!)
[Break]
Ooh
Ooh
[Chorus]
Take me down into your paradise
Don't be scared, 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I
We're cool for the summer
[Verse 2]
Tell me if I won, if I did, what's my prize?
I just wanna play with you, too
Even if they judge, fuck it, I'll do the time
I just wanna have some fun with you
[Refrain]
Got my mind on your body
And your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry
I just need to take a bite
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't tell your mother
Kiss one another
Die for each other
We're cool for the summer (Ha!)
[Break]
Ooh
Ooh
[Chorus]
Take me down into your paradise
Don't be scared, 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I (You and I)
We're cool for the summer (Ha!)
We're cool for the summer
We're cool for the summer
[Interlude]
Shhh, don't tell your mother
[Bridge]
Got my mind on your body
And your body on my mind
Got a taste for the cherry
I just need to take a bite
Take me down
[Chorus]
Take me down into your paradise (Don't be scared)
Don't be scared, 'cause I'm your body type
Just something that we wanna try (Wanna try)
'Cause you and I (You and I)
We're cool for the summer (Oh)
[Post-Chorus]
(Take me down)
We're cool for the summer
(Don't be scared)
'Cause I'm your body type
(Just something)
Just something that we wanna try
'Cause you and I (You and I)
We're cool for the summer (Ha!)
[Outro]
(Ooh)
We're cool for the summer
Cool For The Summer was written by Ali Payami & Alexander Kronlund & Savan Kotecha & Max Martin & Demi Lovato.
Cool For The Summer was produced by Max Martin & Ali Payami.
Demi Lovato released Cool For The Summer on Wed Jul 01 2015.
In an interview with British TV host Alan Carr of Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Demi Lovato talked about the lesbian undercurrents in her hit summer single “Cool for the Summer” and whether the song’s lyrics were about Lovato’s same-sex experiences.
I’m not confirming and I’m definitely not denying‘ that...
In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #198 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying:
The first few seconds were a tease: a piano riff like a pavement shimmer, a sweetly cajoling verse. But then the growling guitar hook sneaked in, the vocal line revved up, and by the time...