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If the original’s predominant single edit trims the album version to a tidy four minutes, Justin Strauss’s contemporaneous extended remix inches closer to that San Junipero-style dream of a blissful vibe lasting forever.Ĭarlisle picked Summer Rain as the highlight of her own songbook in a 2013 Billboard interview. Further remixes followed, including one from Germany’s Groove Coverage, while gay English songwriter Matt Fishel retained the lyrics’ male pronouns for his anthemic rock version in 2014. The already fluky song enjoyed a strange second life in Australia when Melbourne dance act Slinkee Minx hit No 5 locally with their 2004 cover. And its nostalgia-steeped video, cleaved to a sepia-toned past (complete with old-timey band and stock footage of bygone warplanes) and full-colour present, has amassed 1.5m views on YouTube. While nowhere near as globally successful as Heaven, Summer appears on all of Carlisle’s greatest hits collections. The acclaimed 2016 Black Mirror episode San Junipero constructed a similar premise around two women who struggle to stay connected in a digital afterlife – using Carlisle’s more popular Heaven is a Place on Earth as a poignant, on-the-nose bookend.īoth Heaven and Summer Rain were produced by Rick Nowels, who helmed about a dozen other Carlisle solo cuts and, more recently, a lot of Lana Del Rey.
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So it’s no wonder that fans connect to Summer Rain as an empowering fantasy about defying time, space and even death to relive lost love. Observe how its mantra-like chorus openly worships nostalgia: “Doesn’t matter what I do now / Doesn’t matter what I say / Somewhere in my heart I’m always / Dancing with you in the summer rain.” Now that 80s and 90s nostalgia have aged inevitably into their own comfort-food industries, this decade-straddling song has only acquired new layers of tantalising longing. Yet it resonates much more broadly as a testament to the ripeness of looking back (“I remember laughing till we almost cried”) and the recharging power of tapping into some inner sanctuary. Penned by Robbie Seidman with Maria Vidal, whose backing vocals with Donna De Lory enshrine the chorus as a nagging singalong, the song is actually a young widow’s elegy for her soldier husband. Runaway Horses may not have matched the sales of Carlisle’s 1987 smash Heaven on Earth, but the album enjoyed a local boost from Summer Rain’s anthemic melodrama. At the tail end of this southern summer – naturally – Carlisle will return to Australian shores to celebrate the album’s 30th anniversary.