You Might Be Having A Hot Girl Summer Without Even Knowing It

You know when you say a word, then repeat it, and then continue repeating it over and over again until it empties itself of all meaning and sounds limp and awkward, as though it were no longer a word or thing at all?

Something like this has happened with hot girl summer, a phrase that, even if you havent the faintest idea what it means, or where it came from, youve probably heard of it anyway, but its just a series of empty, random words to you.

They arent meaningless. Actually, you could be having a hot girl summer and not even know it yet.

It all started with Megan Thee Stallion, the 24-year-old Houston rapper whose debut album, Fever , marked the official start of what shes been calling hot girl summer . She first tweeted the phrase in April of 2018, but it was not alchemized into a viral catchphrase until this year, when she, herself, blossomed into fame.

This abt to be a REAL HOT GIRL SUMMER

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This abt to be a REAL HOT GIRL SUMMER
HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) April 14, 2018

Fever is a humid, lush party-track album that, in a very hot-girl way, commands a territory still occupied by mostly male rappers: its about sex, about confidence, about power. About money. Its album artwork looks like a 70s-era Blaxploitation film, with phrases fitting the cinematic narration of a Don LaFontaine: REAL HOT GIRL SHIT, it reads. Shes thee HOT GIRL and shes bringing THEE HEAT.

#FEVER pic.twitter.com/gXkk3GDmJd

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#FEVER pic.twitter.com/gXkk3GDmJd
HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) May 16, 2019

Fans of Megan Thee Stallion, aptly called hotties, quickly turned hot girl summer into a kind of viral chorus on social media. (A search of #hotgirlsummer on Twitter or Instagram produces hundreds of thousands of results.)

Confused yet? Stick with me. Seeing how many people were using the term, Megan Thee Stallion (whom Ill refer to as Meg) decided to define it more carefully in an interview with The Root : Its about women and men being unapologetically them, just having a good-ass time, hyping up their friends, doing you, she said. You definitely have to be a person who can be the life of the party and just [be] a bad bitch.

Got it?

Being a Hot Girl is about being unapologetically YOU, having fun, being confident,living YOUR truth , being the life of the party etc

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Being a Hot Girl is about being unapologetically YOU, having fun, being confident,living YOUR truth , being the life of the party etc
HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) July 17, 2019

Hot girl summer is both a motto and a missive, an aphorism that demands in the updated fashion of a self-help quote for you to believe in yourself, to be confident as you can be, to live out your best and most authentic life and, most of all, to have a good time. Its genderless. Its ageless.

Plainly said, its about self-love. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken, Oscar Wilde apparently said. He could have easily and just as eloquently said, Have a hot girl summer.

Dont come up in here with that hot girl shit
Me: pic.twitter.com/4HmUCXU7eB

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Dont come up in here with that hot girl shit
Me: pic.twitter.com/4HmUCXU7eB
HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) May 30, 2019

If it seems broad, thats kind of the point. The universal appeal of hot girl summer is how it can be broadly applied. Meg has afforded it enough space for it to be used to epitomize, in a distinctly youthful way, several social movements: body positivity, feminism, sex positivity. (It even lends itself to considering climate change Meg once organized a beach cleanup at the Santa Monica Pier.)

Hot girl summerIm one month post-op from my gender reassignment surgery and Im feeling so amazing in my body and finally can wear a bathing suit without being uncomfortable :) #transgender pic.twitter.com/HIMnzpQ5Lv

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Hot girl summerIm one month post-op from my gender reassignment surgery and Im feeling so amazing in my body and finally can wear a bathing suit without being uncomfortable :) #transgender pic.twitter.com/HIMnzpQ5Lv
Emily Tressa (@Emily_tressa) July 21, 2019

Im not the most confident in my body but I walked around in a sports bra, leggings, my trusty Filas and a @fentybeauty fannypack and I was low key feeling my hot girl summer fantasy pic.twitter.com/iE9IXyGAhV

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Im not the most confident in my body but I walked around in a sports bra, leggings, my trusty Filas and a @fentybeauty fannypack and I was low key feeling my hot girl summer fantasy pic.twitter.com/iE9IXyGAhV
Lauren Elyse (@laurrrelyse) July 17, 2019

But its only political insofar as loving yourself is political (which can be debated, just not here). Hot girl summer is intentionally and consciously inclusive, though it did start with a Black woman a fact that lends itself to awkward conversations about cultural appropriation.

The dominant view, though, seems to be that hot girl summer is relatively indiscriminate. It focuses primarily on Black women, with some room for others to join in, too, so long as they stay in their lane and dont act out. In fact, theres even an official playlist for it . Megan, for the record, is releasing the official hot girl summer anthem on Aug. 9 , which appears to sample the City Girls hit song, Act Up.

Who said dat https://t.co/DfAgvQHKNb

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Who said dat https://t.co/DfAgvQHKNb
HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) July 6, 2019

Naturally, men have tried to remix the term and make it their own hence city boy summer and hot boy summer , (which, if I do say so myself, fails to achieve the same ring) a mostly redundant and pointless act, since theyre already included in hot girl summer and have nothing to try to reclaim (Megan seems mostly indifferent to the hangups anyway; she frequently retweets hot boy summer posts, too).

So, what are the main takeaways then?