Handsome Naked Sends Up the Obligatory Summer Jam With Its Song and Video for, well, “Summer”

HandsomeNaked2_lg_crop — Handsome Naked, photo courtesy the artists

Handsome Naked has the opposite of swagger in its single “Summer” featuring Becca Brown. Rapping about waking up coated in sweat all summer and the losing of one’s best pair of sunglasses as existential crisis is not quite Vic Berger territory with the surreal but it is a deft send-up of feel-good summer hits as an absurd subgenre whether hip-hop or otherwise. In delineating all the annoying and unromantic aspects of summer that most people can relate to, Handsome Naked definitely take the piss out of getting stoked on summer. Referencing chafing thighs and “booby sweat” the song nevertheless sounds like a legitimate downtempo pop hip-hop hit because Handsome Naked didn’t skimp on the songwriting and production in making comedy music up to and including its seventh and newly released album Doors. Like other comedy music artists like “Weird” Al Yankovic, Flight of the Conchords and Garfunkel and Oates, Handsome Naked had to put in some time learning songcraft to write songs that would actually be funny. Watch the video on YouTube and follow Handsome Naked at the links below.