"Girls in Their Summer Clothes" is a 2007 song by Bruce Springsteen, from his album Magic.
Matched with a pop-oriented melody, Springsteen's full-throated singing, and a "pop-orchestral arrangement", the lyric portrays a series of warm small town vignettes:
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes" has been cited as a singularly "breezy" song on the album, though A. O. Scott of The New York Times notes that not even this track is "untouched by melancholy. ...
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"Girls in Their Summer Clothes" is a 2007 song by Bruce Springsteen, from his album Magic.
Matched with a pop-oriented melody, Springsteen's full-throated singing, and a "pop-orchestral arrangement", the lyric portrays a series of warm small town vignettes:
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes" has been cited as a singularly "breezy" song on the album, though A. O. Scott of The New York Times notes that not even this track is "untouched by melancholy. Its narrator, after all, stands and watches as the girls of the title 'pass me by.'" Jay Lustig of The Star-Ledger writes that the song "unfolds gradually and at its own eccentric pace, with the music, and Springsteen's vocals, getting progressively more intense."
It was released as a single-like "bundle", which consisted of two audio tracks and an accompanying video, for iTunes digital download on January 15, 2008. As such the "Winter Mix" of the song was presented, which featured a single not doubled Springsteen vocal track, some added or...
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