The idea of a male equivalent of Cool for the Summer – a straight, mainstream, male pop star singing about his mate's buff body – remains so far beyond the pale that it's easier to envisage as a terrible comedy skit.
In the singles chart, Ella Henderson stays at No 1 with her first single, Ghost, on Simon Cowell's Syco label, while the boyband Five Seconds of Summer go straight in at No 2 with Don't Stop, and the young singer-songwriter George Ezra also scores a new entry at No 4 with Budapest.
Some of Jason Mitchell's most important scenes in the breakout summer hit "Straight Outta Compton" involved his character, N.W.A co-founder Eric Lynn Wright (a.k.a. "Eazy-E"), and the group's manager, Jerry Heller, played by veteran actor Paul Giamatti.
**ALL FRESHMEN SHOULD APPLY* The MedPrep Program spans for three straight summers.
But since then he has exploded onto the national and international scene, including three straight summers at the Lincoln Center Festival, from 2003 to 2005.
And in "Hovi Baby," from last year, he delivered a couplet that sounded like an epitaph: "Seven straight summers, critics might not admit it/But nobody in rap did it quite like I did it".
It is what he loves, and what he is good at, and what he realized he wanted to do when he was hanging around Tom Landry and Gene Stallings and the Dallas Cowboys for 14 straight summers at training camp, on the campus of Cal Lutheran.
That was enough to make last summer the third straight summer with a 100-plus-degree daccordingding to Mr. Fybish.
Then, from 1984 through 2008, I covered seven straight Summer Games, in the belly of the beast, eagerly writing about Lewis and Joyner-Kersee and dashing off electronic postcards about how the host countries were handling the event.
Female athletes were responsible for 61 of the 121 medals stockpiled by Team USA in Brazil, marking the second straight Summer Olympics where they finished with more silverware than their male counterparts.
