In typical Mael-ian fashion, the song ponders the question of the title with an introductory admission: “They hope that it goes the way it’s supposed to go / There’s fear in them all but they can’t let it show.” (RR)Ī hot and bothered slice of sex-delirious U.K.
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The opening number in the Sparks-written movie musical “Annette” finds brothers Ron and Russell Mael, stars Driver and Cotillard - and even director Leos Carax - singing to its audience. Sparks, Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, “So May We Start?” The rap duo crank up their hometown sound in “Twerkulator,” an all-too-fleeting, two-minute explosion of raw Miami bass that samples Afrika Bambaataa’s 1982 classic “Planet Rock.” Under the supervision of director and hip-hop legend Missy Elliott, the music video imagines JT and Yung Miami as super-size MCs who knock down buildings with the magnitude of their derrières - “Right cheek, left cheek wit’ it,” says JT - to the horror of screaming civilians. He’s absorbed the hazy menace of fellow Southerners Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne, and it’s nowhere better on display than in this creepy standout single. The new pride of Memphis rap more than lives up to his Tennessee hometown’s gothic native sound. Pooh Sheisty featuring Lil Durk, “Back in Blood”
rapper is resolutely in the present on her insightful, nimble “Sometimes I Might Be an Introvert” LP. There are shades of late-’90s Lauryn Hill in the crisp, buoyant production, but the U.K. Months after the stripper pole and the Satan shoes scandalized just the right people, the song itself remains a marvel of seduction and construction. Lil Nas X, “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” But her emotive voice, coupled with elegantly composed acoustic and synthetic arrangements and age-old lyrics adapted from poets including Rumi and Mirza Ghalib, combined to propel a supremely skilled artist into the mainstream. This Grammy-nominated piece from Aftab’s breakout album, “Vulture Prince,” is mostly sung in Urdu, hasn’t charted and hasn’t generated much so-called heat. If ever the world begged for a Latin reboot of “Xanadu” - and according to The Times’ Latino Slack channel, it does - “Todo de Ti” would make a heavenly soundtrack. For his summer smash, the trap-reggaeton singer went off-script and trawled through his dad’s record collection he came back with a fresh spin on the golden era of roller disco.
While recording his Grammy-nominated album “Vice Versa,” the Puerto Rican sensation sought to set himself apart amid the growing class of talented MCs on his island. Though Sanders, 81, now walks with a cane and mostly plays seated, his seemingly inextinguishable tone still soars with superheroic grace. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points, “Movement 6”Ī shimmering instrumental meditation between the crucial free-jazz tenor player Sanders and experimental electronic producer Floating Points, this beatless nine-minute composition features orchestration by the London Symphony Orchestra. While Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse launched a million “Top o’ the mornin’” memes, Keem’s breakthrough single heralded the laconic 21-year-old Carson rapper (and Kendrick’s cousin) as SoCal’s hottest new hip-hop voice.
Rereleased as a single in February, it continues to be a relevant theme for long-distance lovers written and sung in Spanglish, the song lingered for four months on the Billboard Hot 100, proving itself a sleeper hit not to be slept on. (Mikael Wood)įrom Uchis’ Grammy-nominated 2020 album, “Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞,” the seraphic soul-pop of “Telepatía” might have been forever a B-side were it not for its enduring impression on TikTok.
Lyrical references to Jericho, Job and awaiting one’s “armored fate with a smile.” And can we talk about some of the wildest enjambment in pop-music history? SZA’s gorgeous and enveloping psychedelic-soul jam is all about her pursuit of an empty mind, but in truth, “Good Days” is overflowing with emotional data - a world of feeling to get thoroughly lost inside.
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