Yes, despite all attempts to avoid it, we have heard this song. Truthfully, we should've written about it when we were weighing the contenders for this year's "Umbrella," but we just couldn't bring ourselves to listen to it again. Also, since it's awful, we really didn't think it had much of a chance anyway. But now, blog-tracking site Buzzfeed has declared it the odds-on favorite to be America's official Song of the Summer 2008, based on its massive (unfortunate) popularity and the fact that, in spite of everything, it's actually kind of catchy. Since we've never really hated a SOTS before, this would actually be sort of devastating.

If this limp, cynically sapphic, colossally annoying, hugely successful single (performed by a failed Christian singer!) truly does end up being this year's "Umbrella," Vulture will move to Canada. Lane will relocate to Alberta (which he understands is beautiful), and Dan will blog exclusively from his neighborhood café, which, while not technically located in Canada, is so far uptown that the CN tower can be seen from its window on clear days. Readers, we beg you, do not let this happen. Crank up Estelle, or Leona Lewis, or even Shaq — but please not "I Kissed a Girl." This is a matter of national pride.

I Kissed A Girl [Buzzfeed]