Charli XCX - 'Spring Breakers' ft Kesha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YO2_O1L_YY
Four months on from its original drop and the lime green supremacy of ‘Brat’ is still serving at the rate of a top seeded Wimbledon champ. Not content with gathering an entire Met...
“When The Fugees would come to London it was lethal, we’d tell the whole place to come together right now like The Beatles. Wake the town and tell the people, we gon’ do it like we used to.” These...
Jennie – ‘Mantra’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3-CUMERIU&pp=ygUNamVubmllIG1hbnRyYQ%3D%3D
“This that pretty girl mantra, she’s that stunna, make you wanna swing both ways,” Jennie declares confidently on ‘Mantra’, her first track to be released since setting up her own label OddAtelier. The BLACKPINK singer and rapper...
Does it get much better than a stadium college show? At the start of a brand new school year at Stanford University, hordes of undergrads (and even younger local listeners) are queuing in blazing 40-degree heat, forming a long,...
Rachel Chinouriri and Cat Burns - 'Even'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRzsDjp7MA
It’s been a little while coming, but the collaboration between two of indie-pop’s brightest new lights feels every bit as bittersweet as we predicted. Taking measured aim at the double-standards that exist for...
Nearly four decades ago, Janet Jackson burst out of boomboxes and into global consciousness as she belted out the lyric, "I ain't your baby, I'm Janet—Miss Jackson if you're nasty." Over synth-laden R&B and New Jack Swing, she cemented...
Lambrini Girls – ‘Company Culture’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kz_CrB0Vf0
Lambrini Girls are back with another track about the patriarchy and its ceaseless means of making womxn feel undermined and undervalued in all aspects of life – especially the workplace. Tapping into archaic stereotypes that...
FKA twigs – ‘Eusexua’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcW9s7CuhJ0&pp=ygURZmthIHR3aWdzIGV1c2V4dWE%3D
“What is eusexua to you?” FKA twigs asked her fans ahead of her highly-anticipated comeback. To the star, the term refers to a feeling of “momentary transcendence” and the title track from her upcoming third album...
Megan Thee Stallion and RM - 'Neva Play'
https://youtu.be/TpYTyAaTRts?si=TqeijmZm3iR4FRZi
After her ‘Butter’ remix caused such a storm in 2021, it was only a matter of time before Megan Thee Stallion teamed up with BTS for another heater. This time she’s only...
The sentiments on Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth album are 'Short n’ Sweet' like the title, this flirtatious play on the singer’s height setting the tone for a record that refuses to sink into earnestness. With old-style glamour and an uncannily...