Summer is the ultimate playlist season. The fact that it's finally above freezing outside means rolling down the windows of your car and making sure everyone driving next to you knows what you're listening to- because you're obnoxious like that. Of course, the image is only complete if you have your friends in the car screaming to what's playing because singing is overrated and the car in the lane over needs to get the full rendition of The Chainsmokers single.

Here's to the one time of year where you actually feel like listening to the radio for once, that is until each and every station plays the same three songs and beats them into the ground so hard that you'd rather listen to complete and utter silence. You know what they say: you either die a hero or live long enough to become a hero, and some songs have become so overplayed in a single summer that they become infamously villainous. Some you roll your eyes at, some you can't help but cringe when you hear, and some get that "ohhhhh" reaction from the friends in the backseat. Regardless, these guys all belong on a summer throwback playlist.

1. "What Makes You Beautiful" - One Direction

Honestly, there's absolutely no reason to ever play this in the car, unless you want to hear the symphony of groans and chuckles that come with the first few notes. What an iconic song.

2. "Clarity" - Zedd

I legitimately can never listen to this song ever again, that's how overplayed it was a few summers ago.

3. "Irresistible" - Fall Out Boy

Iconic, but for a totally different reason. Fall Out Boy's "American Beauty/American Psycho" album was the ultimate summer album a few years back. It has stapled itself into my memory as something you play when you want to really feel alive, driving down the highway with the volume as high as it can go.

4. "Happy" - Pharrell Williams

Possibly the worst thing you could put on a summer throwback playlist because you will inevitably get this stuck in everyone's heads and they will hate you for it.

5. "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk

This was ridiculously overplayed that same summer that "Clarity" was. Consequently, I can no longer listen to this either.

6. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen

Ironically iconic, and as ridiculous as the song was, it's totally underrated. Play it on repeat this summer.

7. "Closer" - The Chainsmokers

This is one of those songs that you groan at when you hear it come on, and then sing along to eventually anyway.