Long Hot Summer (Girls Aloud song)

"Long Hot Summer"
Single by Girls Aloud
from the album Chemistry
B-side	"Love Machine" (live)
Released	22 August 2005 (2005-08-22)
Recorded	2005
Genre	Dance-rock new wave pop rock
Length	3:52
Label	Polydor
Songwriter(s)	Miranda Cooper Brian Higgins Tim "Rolf" Larcombe Shawn Lee Lisa Cowling Giselle Sommerville Myra Boyle
Producer(s)	Brian Higgins Xenomania
Girls Aloud singles chronology
"Wake Me Up" (2005) "Long Hot Summer" (2005) "Biology" (2005)
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Music video
"Long Hot Summer" on YouTube
Alternative cover
UK Maxi CD cover

"Long Hot Summer" is a song by English-Irish all-female pop group Girls Aloud, taken as the first single from their third studio album Chemistry (2005). The song was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania, and produced by Higgins and Xenomania. "Long Hot Summer" was written for inclusion in the Disney film Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), but plans fell through. Higgins later described the track as "a disaster record." Released in August 2005, it became Girls Aloud's first single to miss the top five on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number seven.

The music video drew inspiration from the possibility of inclusion on the Herbie soundtrack, taking place at a garage where Girls Aloud work as auto mechanics. "Long Hot Summer" was promoted through numerous live appearances and has since been performed on two of the group's concert tours. The "upbeat pop tune" received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics; some reviewers thought the song felt "flat."

The song has been covered by Taiwanese singer Amber An for her 2011 album Evil Girl, reworked in Mandarin as 惡女.^[1]