Summer (Jelly Otter album)

### Producer

Nasri Atweh • MAGIC! • TALK • Jelly Otter • Alessia Cara • Addison Holley • Keegan Hedley • Devan Cohen • MacKenzie Porter • Evan O'Donnell

*Summer* is the sixth and final studio album by Jelly Otter. It was released on July 19, 2021 through both RCA and Epic Records, and is her first album after her departure from Tanya Cookies Records, going in a new era by her music change.

She departed from the excitement of radio-friendly pop production of its predecessors, except in *Summer*'s brighter sound. The songs incorporate eclectic styles of colour, from strawberry pink to cherry red and wild watermelon. This is the first album to feature Jelly Otter animated using hand-drawn digital ink-and-paint animation (later on, Adobe Flash).

Jelly Otter embarked on her final concert tour, the Summer Fest, in the summers of 2021, 2022 and 2023. The fest had its start every May, June and July with four shows. One at SmartCentres Sudbury, one at RioCan Centre Sudbury and two at New Sudbury Centre. The fest ended at Whitby Entertainment Centrum in Whitby.

## Background

As the album's songwriters, Jelly Otter, Nasri Atweh, MAGIC!, Addison Holley and Devan Cohen recruited a variety of Canadian musicians such as TALK, Alessia Cara and MacKenzie Porter. They'll all have to wait until the end of Spring 2021, two years soon after Jelly completed both her 1998 World Tour.

Jelly Otter signed with both RCA Records and Epic Records on January 9, 2021 and re-recorded "Imagination" in the summer of 2021. On July 1, 2021, Jelly Otter and her friends Pinch Raccoon, three of her black friends (in bright blue, violet and pink skirts, like it's bubblegum-flavoured ice cream) and Baby Butter Otter got to go on a trip to the amusement park and water park, all fruit-themed.

On July 11, 2021, Epic Records singer Meghan Trainor then asked Jelly Otter to collaborate with Keegan Hedley, Addison Holley and Devan Cohen on a new studio album. The new studio album, titled Summer, featured drawings of rainbow colours and a fruit-themed amusement park and water park, in the summer of 2021 on chalk and markers.

## Legacy

After recording her final song, her re-recording of the Jelly Otter song, *Imagination*, Jelly Otter herself won't even create a new studio album in the summer of 2022. Sooner or later, it is put off for three decades and is currently unreleased. Her studio album title is given to her best friend, Pinch Raccoon. Her first song and first studio album are expected to be released in the future since her departure from Pinch Raccoon & The Seventh Harmony.

In July 31, 2023, after the completion of her 3rd and final Summer Fest, all music studios and recording studios are closed down. Jelly Otter embarked on her three-year farewell concert tour. There will no longer be anymore fans after that concert. At her home in Big Bay Point, a clock on-screen counts down to show time. She opens the show solo with the chorus of "Imagination" leading into "Coral Reef". Accompanied by herself, Jelly Otter performs a bunch of songs from her final studio album, *Summer*, including "Peacock" and "I Am Happy" in a rainbow blazer.

Each song from *Summer* is characterized by a specific colour scheme, while transitions between songs are marked by on-screen interlude visuals, followed by a moonlight rendition of "Splash! In A Water Park" alone on the ramp. The concert and tour both conclude with a sun setting down on a beach, sea waves crashing onto the shore, and seagulls flying away on-screen.

## Songs

Five of the album's songs' instrumentation include her acoustic guitar, a ukulele, a solo cuban trumpet, steel pans, a music box, a glockenspiel (Wild Watermelon Christmas only) and a double marimba. Rhythm include a cabasa, claves, congas, a double agogo, a guiro, a bell tree (or chimes), sleigh bells (Wild Watermelon Christmas only), a handle castanet and a triangle. It's like a genre of a combined son cubano and children's music orchestra.

The tropical song, *Cool Blue Juice Dolphin*, features a tropically colourful collaboration with Loud Luxury and Jessia.

## Track List

1. I Am Happy (with Baby Butter Otter, Pinch Raccoon and Peanut Otter)
2. Sunshine Lemon Yellow Smoothie
3. Cherry Red Parrot
4. Cool Blue Juice Dolphin (with Loud Luxury and Jessia)
5. Strawberry Banana Sunshine
6. Wild Watermelon Christmas (with MacKenzie Porter and Tyler Shaw)
7. Strawberry Pink Flamingo
8. Coral Reef (with Alessia Cara, Pinch Raccoon and TALK)
9. Rainbow Water Slide
10. Sunny Sunshine Summer (with Baby Butter Otter)
11. Splash! In A Water Park
12. Bubblegum Ice Cream (with Pinch Raccoon and Baby Butter Otter)
13. Fruity Rainbow (with Tate McRae)
14. Peacock (with Reve, Preston Pablo)
15. Imagination