"Long Hot Summer" is a song by English-Irish all-female pop group Girls Aloud, taken as the first single from their third studio album Chemistry (2005).

"Long Hot Summer" was written for inclusion in the Disney film Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), but plans fell through.

The music video drew inspiration from the possibility of inclusion on the Herbie soundtrack, taking place at a garage where Girls Aloud work as auto mechanics.

The first disc included a live track of "Love Machine", recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo during Girls Aloud's What Will the Neighbours Say...?

Although the song was called a "well-produced, upbeat pop tune, with a great hook in the chorus" by The Sentinel,[2] most reviewers felt otherwise.

Stylus Magazine said that the song was "a misstep, fizzy and sparkling, but if pop can only be described as such, then it goes flat long before October rolled on.

"[13] Alexis Kirke of musicOMH noted, "The Girls' songwriters, Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper of Xenomania, suffer from the weaknesses of their strength - which is the courage to try something "pop-new" each time.

[6] The video opens with scenes of the band members wearing coveralls, working in a garage called Pit Stop.

Alexis Kirke wrote, "half of the Girls Aloud phenomenon is about these ladies "forms", so I'm "content" to merge this piece of media into its stylist-driven and over-thinned orange-tinted video.

"Long Hot Summer" was performed live for the first time on CD:UK on 24 July 2005, using fans in their dance routine.

Girls Aloud also performed at London gay nightclub G-A-Y to promote the release of "Long Hot Summer".