- What is this Hot Girl Summer?
- She thinks that's hot?
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- "Meg said it's a hot girl summer, so guess what I'm doing
all summer long? Cutting up."
She looks like a hot girl to me.
- Well, I'm not sure what cutting up means
in modern slang or urban slang. Put some clothes on, honey.
- For me and my generation, I think the outfit's
a little risque, but she's got a good body.
- (FBE) What do you think this could be?
Have you heard of this? - "It's a hot girl summer."
I don't quite know what they mean by that.
I guess girls are in this summer. Hot girls are in this summer.
- I have been hearing about it, yes.
This is kind of a time where a lot of young ladies
are feeling empowered and feeling maybe a little
like bad girl, wanna cut up.
- (girl) You have not been having a productive--
- "Hot girl summer, right?"
- (girl) Ah, ah.
- She thinks that's hot?
- That is not hot.
- (girl) That's not how Megan would do it.
- Who's Megan? Who is Megan?
- (girl) Ah. Yeah, I'm in my bag
but I'm in his, too. That's why you see me
with a new pair of shoes. - What is she doing?
- I don't think I've seen Meghan Trainor do any twerking.
- She moves well. I don't know what they do
with these, but I'm impressed.
- (girl) All right, this is deuce day.
- I don't know. This is very unusual.
- (girl) My knee's not strong like yours.
- Oh, what a narcissistic world we live in now.
- (girl) One time. ♪ (singing) ♪
- Oh my God. That is hilarious.
I think I've seen one of them and I don't know if this
is supposed to be a Nicki Minaj, Beyonce,
trying to be them.
- Selfie stuff is just-- and Instagram
is just so narcissistic to me. I don't need that much
information about people.
- "I heard that it's a hot girl--" So it's a hot girl summer
something theme.
- "I heard that it's a hot girl summer."
Okay, girl standing there in a bikini.
- What is this Hot Girl Summer?
- Obviously, they think that sexy, interesting girls
are the hot thing this summer is all I can come up with.
Where are the hot guys?
- She's a hot girl. She's having a good time.
It's a good thing. I think it's actually kind of
a chance for women to express themselves
in a way that they have not been able to really do
in past years.
- "Hot Girl Summer is still in effect."
- I guess it's the thing this summer.
I'm not even gonna try. I'm way past that.
I'm too old to be hot.
- I like this outfit. I like the picture.
I like the way she presents herself. I'm not gonna say it's wholesome,
but I think it's appropriate.
- When I'm dressed up, I put my picture on Facebook.
I don't put it on-- I actually just opened
a Twitter account, so I got all dolled up last week
and I posted the picture of me all dolled up,
so I guess it's catching up with me too.
- (FBE) So we have more to show you in just a second,
but those posts all fall under that hashtag #HotGirlSummer.
- Okay.
- (FBE) What do you think Hot Girl Summer means?
- Looking your best in the summer, I suspect.
- The weather, sexy, good time to meet Mr. right.
- That you have to look hot the whole time
and not in the sense an old lady does like me,
but hot like sexy hot.
- (FBE) We have a video to show you next
that explains what Hot Girl Summer is.
- Okay.
- (Megan) Hello, it's a hot girl summer.
- Oh, that's Megan Thee Stallion, yeah.
- (Megan) It's a hot girl summer. - Yeah, what is it?
- (Megan) So it's just basically about women and men
just being unapologetically them, just having
a good-ass time.
- Well, I think that's-- we should be that way
all the time.
- Well no one's as hot as her. I mean, she's amazing.
- (Megan) Hyping up your friends, doing you,
not giving a damn about what nobody
gotta say about it. - Yeah.
- (Megan) You definitely have to be a person
that can be the life of the party
and just a bad bitch. - What kind of language
is that? Why can't she just say
be yourself?
- I like her. I'm really a believer
in just be yourself.
- I like that, 'cause that's exactly
what an elder-- advice an elder would give.
In the long run, 'aint gonna make one damn,
so just do whatever you want, whatever makes you happy,
as long as you don't hurt someone else
or break the law.
- (FBE) So, that was rapper Megan Thee Stallion,
who has been branding herself as hot girl
or hot girl Meg as far back as 2017.
- Uh-huh.
- I heard that name, yeah. She looks hot.
- After releasing her mixtape Fever in May, her fanbase quickly
evolved the hot girl term into #HotGirlSummer
where on social media, you'll see hot girls
graduating college, travelling the world,
and so much more. - Well that's good.
Then I guess you can devise your own hot girl summer.
- I certainly am going to go to my Twitter account
and do hot girl tag on my own picture.
- (FBE) Next up are some more examples of
the hot girl summer along with some of the memes
that came out of this. - Okay.
- "Anyway y'all, hot girl [bleep] isn't just a summer thing.
It's a lifestyle. Like hot girls not just
hot girls in the summer, boo."
- "They are hot girls in the summer, spring,
winter, fall. It's an energy you encompass."
Basically, be yourself year round.
- Agreed wholeheartedly. We're all gonna get old
and all our hot looks are gonna fade.
Who are you? Who are you to your friends?
Who are you to your family? Who are you at the party?
Who are you?
- I'm 66 years old and I came up through
a lot of different phases. I remember hot pants,
I remember all the things that came along
and people were trying to express themselves.
This doesn't seem any different than that to me.
I think the big difference is that the publicity
that comes up. You get a lot more exposure
nowadays because you got such a wide open venue.
- "My boyfriend cancelling my hot girl summer."
- He didn't care. Just turned the lights off,
went out for booze.
♪ (rap) ♪
- I guess he had enough of her. I'm sure she'd be doing that 24/7.
- That was great. He's probably sick and tired of it.
- "Tom Hanks said hot girl summer."
- I love him. He's got the best
sense of humor, doesn't he?
- I see Tom, my man. He's got his hot girl summer
thing going on. Got the shirt tied.
- Tom Hanks is always hot, 'cause Tom Hanks
is too great a person. That's hot.
And he's a great actor and that's hot.
He's being himself all the time.
- (FBE) There was no prior lyric or song
with the exact term "hot girl summer"
but the virality of the term and its self care definition
led Megan Thee Stallion to release the Hot Girl Summer
anthem with rap superstar Nicki Minaj and rapper
Ty Dolla $ign. - Oh, nice.
- Now there is a song. Of course there is.
♪ Real ass [bleep] give a [bleep] 'bout a bitch ♪
♪ It is what it is this some five star [bleep] ♪
- Are they gonna be drinking, right?
Oh my God, her boobs are falling out of that.
- Oh, her breasts are moving up-- I don't know about this.
- Her boobs. I'm sorry, it's very funny.
♪ Who gon' handle me? Thinkin' he's a player ♪
♪ He's a member on the team He put in all that work ♪
♪ He wanna be the MVP I told him ain't no taming me ♪
♪ I love my [bleep] equally ♪ - Oh.
- Oh, wait a minute. Stop it.
No she didn't.
♪ Who a hotter B? Who got a lot of D? ♪
♪ Who poppin' like a P when he be hoppin' out the V? ♪
- Somebody needs to go back to school.
Major in English.
- It's a good tempo. Not necessarily the rap song type.
♪ Who unfollowed me? Like who don't follow me? ♪
♪ 'Cause even in your new bitch, I can see a lot of me ♪
♪ And honestly I'm honored 'cause that [bleep] be comedy ♪
♪ You ain't put me in no brands but I see you proud of me ♪
- I wish they didn't have to be so gross.
I just wish you could have lyrics that just weren't gross
and rude and demeaning.
- I think we better stop the train and go back
to the station. This is 2019 and I know
things are different, but I'm kinda in
an Elder React, Elder Generation
and it's hard for me to get out of that
when I see words like that.
- Some of what's in there is really interesting to me.
It's like, don't mess with me. Don't take advantage of me.
I could see where people would be offended
by some of that, but I kinda know
what she's saying.
- (FBE) So the Hot Girl single has already broke the record
for being the first female rap collaboration in history
to hit number one on iTunes in the US.
- Great.
- Really? Well then I like it.
- (FBE) Although Hot Girl Summer applies to anyone,
it seems to be a term enjoyed largely by women
and a term that originated with black women.
The trend is full of body positivity, self care,
and self love. - Cool.
- That's so important. For too many years,
it's been if you're over a certain weight,
you're just, ew. And that was true
in my day too.
- (FBE) As an elder, why do you think
this message resonated so well with the younger
generation of social media users?
- Because they are using social media and they're
very anxious to post things about themselves
and they all think they're hot
and they wanna show everybody their stuff all the time.
- It's not necessarily representing a certain group,
a certain type, body type. This way, I think it will be
well received from different type of girls.
- Young girls, white, black, whatever, are struggling
with their identity and feeling bad
about their bodies and about themselves
and so this was an interesting underlying message
about like, don't get taken advantage of,
really love yourself.
- Its message resonated with a younger generation
because confidence. No matter who you are
or what you look like or how tall you are,
short, or what color, race, you have to have confidence
in yourself. If you can feel good
about yourself, if you feel good about your body,
you'll do a lot better.
- It's a gesture of self confidence for the one who posts it.
It doesn't-- I know it's hard to believe
when you're young, but it doesn't really matter
what other people think and that's been
the whole problem. Now that people are happy
and are more comfortable in their skin, whatever it is,
and they'll post it, it's a step forward for them,
so I just applaud it. It's great.
- (FBE) Some have also pointed out that the trend
has a bit of a feminist tilt to it in the sense
that women, through this challenge, are celebrating
having sex and making money without having to feel the shame
that society sometimes puts upon women,
but activities that men have been able to do
without criticism. - Absolutely.
- (FBE) Growing up, do you think a trend like this
would have taken off and become a cultural moment
with the youth in this way? - No, it would not have done
and I-- even today, with all of this,
I don't see why women want to be equal
by becoming as crass as men can be.
- If my father saw me take a picture like that,
I'd never leave the house again. You were supposed to be modest
and then grow up and then get married.
This was not acceptable.
- When I was growing up, people didn't even talk about sex.
Growing up in the '50s, '60s, I don't even know
if any of those things would ever have been discussed.
- It couldn't have because the limited amount
of public airspace they weren't giving to this.
In today's world, you have your own outlet.
You don't have to wait for someone to come
calling to give you that spot.
- There's some kind of little bit of relationship
during Elvis Presley and listening to the music
and the words and seeing him gyrate on the TV,
you felt a little freedom and you could feel good
about yourself and not feel so restricted by morals
with your family and relatives and so forth.
- I think there were times that this did happen
in the past. It came up when we
were hippies. Woodstock, the whole thing.
There was a lot of-- burn your bra.
In the African American community when we started wearing
naturals and the style of clothes--
I can't tell you, I had five or six dashikis.
What we're seeing now is another one of those moments
where a particular kernel of information has now
blown up into something that was all part of
the progression all along.
- (FBE) So finally, how are you going to celebrate
the rest of this year's hot girl summer?
- Hot girl summer. Well I can tell you
I love to read, I love to travel,
I love to hike. Just being outdoors,
seeing flowers and things, that would be
hot girl summer for me.
- I got so many TV shows I want to watch.
I love to watch old movies and old TV shows
like Perry Mason.
- Just going to the old folks' home and playing checkers.
That's all I wanna do. Just check.
Checkers, there's not much-- I only got a few
good months left, guys.
- My goal right now, I'm gonna get certified
as a reading tutor for first and third graders
and that's how I'm gonna spend my summer.
- I've been a hot girl all summer,
'cause I've been doing what I want
and having a good time. You gotta be yourself.
Don't care what other people think.
I dropped that at 50. I didn't think I'd ever
make it to 50, so now I'm like,
[bleep] y'all. Take it or leave it, this is it
and it's made life much easier and happier.
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- Hi guys, I'm JC, producer at FBE.
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