Every year, major acts vie for the coveted title of “song of the summer.” It’s typically an upbeat pop song, with past examples including “California Gurls” and “Gangnam Style.” Billboard maintains a chart for songs of the summer, while Variety defines it using streaming numbers accrued between the end of June and Labor Day.


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Having learned all of that, you should go ahead and feel free to disregard it entirely, because the strongest contender for this year’s song of the summer has already emerged, and it’s from an incredibly unlikely source: a bunch of Irish schoolchildren.


In a video designed to promote Cruinniú na nÓg, Europe’s only national free day of creativity for young people sponsored by the Irish government, these kids lay down some of the sickest bars I’ve ever heard, regularly returning to the heartwarming line, “I searched for my spark, and I found it.”


The song, which was written by a team of musicians and poets in collaboration with a studio that aims to help young people develop their musical abilities, is an earworm, and the video is incredibly well produced, but it really is the kids themselves who make it. They’re genuinely good at rapping and singing and, most importantly, they’re having fun.



Cruinniú na nÓg means “Gathering of Youth” and is the only event of its kind in the world — a day aimed at encouraging creativity in children and young people under the age of 18 with free events, workshops, exhibitions and recitals in cities and towns across Ireland.



Commenters flooded RTE’s replies asking for them to put the track on Spotify, but unfortunately, the Irish public broadcaster hasn’t yet done so. For now, you can listen to it on repeat on YouTube, and sit and wait in anticipation of the announcement that these kids will be heading to Eurovision 2025 — if there’s any justice in the world, that is.