When You Want to Have a Hot Girl Summer but Don’t Know How
After living through a pandemic, I feel anything but “hot.”
When Meg Thee Stallion’s “Hot Girl Summer” went viral in early summer 2019, women from all walks of life quickly jumped on the bandwagon. Then, COVID hit, and summer 2020 was officially canceled and consisted mainly of online DJ parties, what we now know as Versuz, and way too many social media dance challenges. But now, as the world has begun to reopen and it appears that summer 2021 is scheduled to be on and popping, handfuls of women are gearing up for a hot girl summer 2020 redo, and I’m even a little curious myself. But there’s just one problem. I don’t know how to have a hot girl summer, and I have a lot of questions. For example, are hot girl summers reserved only for women 30 and younger? Do golden girls like myself, who are 35 and up, need to sit this one out? And if more mature women are invited to twerk a little something, what if you’re somewhat of a prude by nature? This then leads to my biggest question — what about COVID?
Because I would embarrass myself trying to twerk, when I hear certain City Girl songs and the sun happens to reflect off my sunglasses just right, I can’t help but feel a strong body roll takeover. When this happens, I want to throw caution to the wind and get a new pair of teeth, buy a…
