10 Rock Songs That Killed Bands' Career
4. Girls of Summer - Aerosmith
After the '90s dissipated, there were two distinct kinds of Aerosmith floating around in the world. Either you were listening to the Aerosmith that was trying to snag another blockbuster movie theme like I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, or you saw them making one polished mess after another like the back half of Just Push Play. While that seemed like something they just needed to get out of their system, Girls of Summer was a sign of dangerous things to come.
Since Just Push Play leaned into radio rock a little more than most, this was basically just a by the numbers pop song that just so happened to have a mainstream rock band singing over it. From the minute this starts, any semblance of the original Bad Boys From Boston is long gone, having been replaced with vocal harmonies that sound like the Beach Boys with absolutely none of the charm.
The band themselves ended up thinking as much too, with half of them refusing to play on it and leaving Steven Tyler as one of the only people actually committed to it by the end. The sad fact is that this actually charted, meaning that the whole thing was profitable. Although Aerosmith did have some better tunes coming down after this, we were never going to get something as heavy as Back in the Saddle ever again.