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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be

23 Governors Ball attendees picked a song that will define their season.

By Zara Golden
Photographer Alex Welsh, Ethan Holland
June 10, 2015

We have some ideas about what 2015's Song of the Summer might be, but that's just us. So when Governors Ball touched down in New York last weekend, drawing nearly 50,000 music-heads out to sunny Randall's Island, we knew what we had to do—we sourced the crowd, and here are their Songs of Summer.

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D.R.A.M., "Cha Cha"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
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Drake, "Jungle"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Drake, "Know Yourself"
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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
Fetty Wap Ft. Drake, "My Way"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
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Fetty Wap, "Trap Queen"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
Kendrick Lamar, "i"
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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Zara Golden
The Shoes, "Time To Dance"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
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Lou Reed, "Perfect Day"; Erykah Badu, "Green Eyes"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Little Shop of Horrors, "Suddenly Seymour"; Elliott Smith, "Ballad of Big Nothing"
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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Holychild, "U Make Me Sick"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
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Odesza, "Bloom"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Kanye West Ft. Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom, and Paul McCartney, "All Day"
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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
Janelle Monáe and Jidenna, "Yoga"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Alex Welsh
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Omarion Ft. Chris Brown and Jhené Aiko, "Post To Be"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Zara Golden
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Zara Golden
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A$AP Rocky, "L.S.D."
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
MØ, "Walk This Way"
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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
MØ Ft. Diplo, "XXX 88"
Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be Ethan Holland
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Listen to their Songs of Summer here:
Electronic, Hip-Hop, Pop, R&B, Summer Music, Zara Golden
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Here’s What Happened When We Asked A Bunch Of Festival Kids What Their Song Of Summer Will Be