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47 Erica Ford originally started her blog Mommy Klatch in order to cope with trading her life as a Boston lawyer for life as a stay-at-home mom in rural California. Her book Scotch Tape is Cheaper than Botox is a collection of articles covering everything from Industrial Revolution baby names, to yoga pant underwear etiquette, to how to decorate with antelope heads. Erica's writing has been featured in The Huffington Post, the New York Times, Blogher.com, The South Shore Magazine, and several diaries with kittens on them. Erica writes for Happify.com and Bundoo.com, and is the co-host of South Shore Live! on Boston radio WATD. She returned to Boston because she missed the nautical decor. Erica completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and received her law degree from Boston College. The highlight of Erica's life besides her three children was when she read her writing onstage with Oprah Winfrey at the Life You Want Conference in 2014. than Blondie's "Call me! Call me! Anytime! Call me!" When Icona Pop realizes her guy is gone, she joyfully sings, "I got this feeling on a summer day when you were gone. I threw your stuff into a bag and pushed it down the stairs…I don't care! I love it!" Knowing its over makes her downright giddy. At first, Demi Lovato ups the intensity in "Cool for the Summer," when she sings they'll "die for each other." But, perhaps fearing her mate will get the wrong idea and become too possessive, she backpedals with, "I just wanna have some fun / just something that we want to try." No one is going to surreptitiously start leaving their toothbrushes or extra underwear at her place. Not on her watch. Rihanna has the greatest nonchalant summer love sentiment when she sings, "Where have you been / 'cuz I never see you out." She doesn't even know where the heck he is. When it comes to writing songs about summer romances in this day and age, being evasive and blaséis is the key. No one is pining away. People get more excited about Instagram pictures of other people's lunch. In comparison, 80's summer songs seem just so darn desperate. In an effort to embrace this new attitude, we exhort Bryan Adams to consider updating the number one summer love song of all time: his quintessential hit, Summer of '69. Members of the music industry examined the lyrics and offered their thoughts on how Bryan Adams can bring this dinosaur into the 21st century: I got my first real six-string Bought it at the five-and-dime He should order it on Amazon Prime or use a zzounds.com payment plan. Played it till my fingers bled Well, he should play it until his fingers get moderately sore and then switch to Guitar Hero: Legends of Rock. Was the summer of '69 Me and some guys from school Had a band and we tried real hard Why did they not just post some videos to YouTube? Or get Auto- Tune? Jimmy quit, Jody got married Got married? After high school? Jody should take a gap year and do an unpaid internship. I shoulda known we'd never get far Ain't no use in complainin' When you got a job to do If he's bored at his job, he should play Candy Crush Saga or take some BuzzFeed quizzes. Spent my evenings down at the drive-in And that's when I met you! Drive-in? How about, "I swiped right on Tinder, and that's when I met you!" Standin' on your mama's porch You told me that you'd wait forever Maybe not forever, but at least for 10 years. No one moves out of their parents' houses until they're about 30. Oh and when you held my hand Oh, and when you sent me that suggestive selfie. I knew that it was now or never Those were the best days of my life Were those really the best days of his life? Because working all the time and having your band kind of stink doesn't seem super fun. And now the times are changin' Look at everything that's come and gone Sometimes when I play that old six-string Think about you wonder what went wrong He's STILL thinking about that girl? Literally, can't even. TBH, he really needs to let that go and move on. With some catchy vocal distortion, a.k.a. "the Cher effect," and collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, Bryan Adams can have a hit all over again - and seem a lot less needy. * Neil Diamond penned a wildly popular summer song about everyone's first love: hard alcohol. Ain't no big surprise. "May be blue skies above / But it's cold (and crisp and delicious!) when your love's on the rocks." ** I've always wondered: Exactly who are these boys of summer, and where do they go? *** Whenever I watch this video, I keep thinking it's going to evolve into one of those old-fashioned photos you take at amusement parks with extended family, because it has the exact same brownish tinge. As soon as Chris Isaak and Helena Christensen embrace, I expect Uncle Bob to strike a pose in the background, sporting a droopy mustache, a neckerchief, and dueling pistols. TheSouthShoreMagazine.com