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 Italian rapper Rkomi dropped his third studio album, Taxi Driver , in April. Inspired by the Martin Scorsese film, the album is certified double platinum in Italy and Rkomi has reached  number one in the singles chart, with 'NUOVO RANGE' (ft Sfera Ebbasta). The album includes fourteen tracks and ten of them are featurings. Rkomi recruits a great line-up of Italian pop, from his frequent collaborator Ernia to Irama and Italy's King of trap, Sfera Ebbasta. Today I am going to focus on one track that isn't a feature, 'PARTIRE DA TE'. It probably is the piece with the biggest rock sound on the record. Since the beginning, the alt -rock electric guitar riff captivates you, which is emphasized by the piano that makes you immerse in the song and the rhythm. Despite the music is not written by Rkomi, this inclusion isn't casual, as he confessed to Billboard Italy that he's learnt to play the piano during the pandemic. In the chorus, Rkomi is helped by the a-cap

John Mayer's latest album Sob Rock contains some great songwriting lines. These are my favourites . What are yours? 1.Last Train Home (Songwriter:John Mayer)  2. New Light ( Songwriters: John Mayer and Ernest Wilson)  3.Wild Blue (Songwriter: John Mayer)  4. I Guess I Just Feel Like ( Songwriter : John Mayer )  5. Why You No Love Me (Songwriter: John Mayer) 

 The Lathums have released today their new single, Oh My Love , which sets the band closer to their new and upcoming album.  Despite the joy and the tranquility that the track reflects, there is a deeper meaning  or message in the song. Alex Moore, vocalist and writer of the song, explained in the band account's recent tweets the inspiration and some details about the process of writing the song: He confessed that he was able to complete the lyrics after experiencing the love of the fans and his ability to ' make other people feel emotions'  ,  and that the track came ' from pain and uncertainty'. Oh My Love seems to be a very personal track for Alex, who has also says that it is 'a little bit of me'. The official video came out just a few hours ago. Watch it below:

 For his new album, 'vague a l'ame', Hatik has released three singles, the super rap 'sans titre' and 'crashtest', betting on rap lyricism. The third single, 'mer', premiered last week, doesn't search the emotion, the intensity in the rap verse, but in the feelings on the chorus ('Je traverserais la mer pour retrouver ton regard' (I would cross the sea to find your look)). The track, produced by his usual composer, Medeline, uses synths, adding the 80s influence that has been spinning around this year in pop music and that gives dinamism to it, making it properly pop.  The single was performed by Hatik at Les Victoires de la Musique, the most popular and important awards of the French music scene, where Hatik was nominated to Best New Artist in the male category. He didn't took home the award, so did Hervé. Hatik sings to Angela again, as he did in his hit with the same title. In fact, the girl who appeared on Angela 's video and

 'Sweet Melody'  rose last Friday to number one on the Official Charts. Days before the singer and producer had teased the possibility of breaking down of all the vocals on the  Little Mix song. In the video, MNEK shows who does every adlib and tells more about the process of making it ( It initially started in 2017). The song is the fifth number one for the band and the last where Jesy Nelson is featured.  Ver esta publicación en Instagram Una publicación compartida de MNEK (@mnek)

 Harry Styles released yesterday the video for ' Treat People With Kindness', one of the most fan-loved songs of his album, F ine Line. The song title was one of the 'slogans' that hinted Harry's comeback with a great advertising campaign.  Starring Harry Styles and Fleabag series' creator and main actress, Phoebe Waller-Bridge , the video feels classic, shot in black and white, while shimmering and aparkling,delivering an optimistic message for 2021.

 CANDID released just a few hours ago the cover of Blondie's 'Heart of glass' . It seems like the song is experiencing a revival, much more since it was covered by Miley Cyrus in September (peaking on number 38 on the Official Charts). And now we can enjoy CANDID's version, full of brilliant vocals and ready to be the soundtrack of your weekend or lockdown.The band is not afraid of take the risk as they proved on their latest single, Numbers Game, a strong shout against music industry's falseness. 

 After the third remix of Levitating, Dua Lipa is ready to release new material and her new track features the belgian singer Angèle, who celebrated last month the second anniversary of her debut album 'Brol'. 'Fever' blends dance music, habitual in Dua's latest record with Angèle 's melancholic bridge and second verse,patent in some of her tracks like' Jalousie' or' Je veux tes yeux'. The song talks about the fever , emotional dependence to someone. To promote the single, both artists told Konbini how they knew each other and how their collaboration came up.         The video, shot in  London, is set to be released on Friday. The track maybe features on Dua's online live show, Studio 2054.

 Hatik has released today the video for 'Adieu Mon Amour'. It marks the end of  the Chaise Plainte era. There is no better one for this big chapter. It separates from other rap songs: There is no need for talking about money,sex and drugs . It is just the emotion of a love undermined, destroyed , which is inevitably ending. Hatik combines his best poetic lyrics with his deep pain. This is reflected on the video, where the rapper uses his acting skills to bring drama. Some images seem in slow-motion as Hatik was remebering  the good times of the relationship. In contrast, the scenes where the couple is arguing are faster and shot pretending to get you involved. After rescheduling his tour to 2021 , due to coronavirus, Hatik is preparing the next album while he says goodbye to the last in his most authentic way. Director: Anne Rivoallan

Usually I recommend videos but I decided to suggest you listening to the 'song vs song' podcast, hosted by Todd Nathanson and Dany Roth,specially their latest episode (with Grady Smith as special guest). In this episode they debated about what song represents more bro-country, 'Dirt Road Anthem' by Jason Aldean or 'Cruise' by Florida Georgia Line. For those who does not what  Bro-country is, it is a country sub-genre originated in 2010s and that usually recruits country stereotypes (tracks, girls with jeans, beer, Friday nights...), frequently mistaken with nowadays country music. (There is deeper country music, truly richer).  Influenced by rock and rap, both songs got rap remixes (Jason Aldean with Ludacris (Do not confuse Jason Aldean rap verse with Ludacris one)  and Florida Georgia Line with Nelly, as Kane Brown is doing right now) and they stated a new country wave. Despite the songs were released a few years ago the Podcasters take it back to nowadays. Th

2020 CMT Awards are set to be next week and because of that, I remember today Brett Young and Boyz II Men live show for CMT Crossroads ,CMT section that brings together a country singer/group with a musician from other genre to play live songs from both artists.  It is usually interesting to see different genres artists singing country songs, which contributes to globalise country music. Due to country music's progressive spin to pop music , these live shows have shown bonds and things in common between pop and country singers . Great example is Nick Jonas and Thomas Rhett's gig . Thomas Rhett has recognised his admiration for Bruno Mars and some of his songs sound like Maroon 5's ones. We can see it too in the last Crossroads show, starring Kelsea Ballerini and Halsey. Tracks like ' Miss Me More' or their collaboration ' The Other Girl' , highlight that they are truly pop.  Let's focus now on Brett Young and Boyz II Men 's show! The show took place

 Miguel has dropped today the music video for 'Funeral', a song that was released on last year's November first - yes you  heard it right.  The song did not have so much success and it was, supposedly, the lead single for an EP, set to be released last winter. The track is dark. Miguel is  not afraid of connecting religion and death  references with desire. You can feel a bit of rawness ('blood on the carpet'). Maybe it is the darkness what has not helped to pop the song. Miguel had previously talked or added religious references in the past, as in Wildheart (whose review you can read by clicking on 'album reviews'), like in'Coffee' ('two lost angels discover salvation').  Despite the song can sound different from Miguel's previous work, we still have vibrant vocals in the pre-chorus. 'I lost my mind' - Miguel sings and that madness is patent on the video too, shot in black and white, it does not need more effects to surprise. It

Today Dua Lipa releases a new video for 'Levitating', featuring DaBaby(Billboard baby). It seems that the Blessed Madonna, Missy Elliott and   Madonna were not enough (at least  commercially or chartly enough).  With  'Hallucinate' out of the US singles chart and  peaking on number 31 on the UK Official single chart, Dua is ready for a proper new single. 'Let's make it 2020' - Dua must be thinking. This decision is maybe promoted by 'Club Future Nostalgia' failure: Only selling 28K in its first week, after changing its release date to a week later. One great thing brought back in this remix is adding back the chorus. The Blessed Madonna remix speeded up the song, eliminating the chorus parts, which were the key of IDGAF's success.   It is remarkable that Dua decides to do two remixes of the same song, instead of dropping music videos for singles off Future Nostalgia. 'Love again' or 'Pretty Please' might be a good idea for singles

 Last Thursday Michael Kiwanuka was announced as the winner of the 2020 Mercury Prize. After the big announcement, Michael performed ' Light' on Later...with Jools Holland  .  Early this week, Michael talked to the Mercury Prize's Youtube channel about the inspiration and the making-of the album. Based on 70s Black Music, Michael is not afraid of embracing his roots, his heritage. He is confident like never before. That is why the album is called ' KIWANUKA'.  There is some kind of joy on the record, shown in ' You Ain't The Problem ', an ode to confidence and persistence on being true to yourself . African drums melt with the alt-rock spirit (emphasized with warm vocals, such as in ' Rolling ') that exists throughout the whole album and a raw honesty in the lyrics. There is also time for searching hope  ( I've Been Dazed) in a religious way and for delicious piano-ballads-interludes.  'Hero' addresses Black Lives Matter.  The reviv

This post is the first one of a new section, called ' Music & Visual Art'. Its purpose is to show the connection between music and other arts, specially visual arts. The point is proving how ,with the help of other arts , we can get to reflect the same that music does. In this first post the focus will be on THE 1975. Its frontman, Matty Healy appreciates and is so into different ways of art (painting, fashion and music ,of course). In an interview with GQ, he admits that ,for musicians, the ' live show is (their) c urrently artistic statement visually'.  That is probably why he also uses visual design. Talking to Pitchfork for the  On the records section, where Matty broke down all of the 1975's albums,he described the first one  as an ' Apocalyptic teenage romance' . He wanted the album's art to be ' nostalgic (...) , but also modern' , something that completely relates to the project . Black and white with some classic typography and

 In the new episode of NME's section 'Friends Like These'  Zara Larsson and MNEK remember the first time they met, being an artist and  the other version of 'Ain't My Fault' . Zara also tells about what inspired her new song 'Love Me Land' and MNEK speaks about how he came into Joel Corry's 'Head & Heart', which has been number one in the UK for six weeks and its reaching the top 10 in other European countries.

 James Bay released ,back in July, the first single, Chew on My Heart , for his third studio album. In an interview with NME he described the new record as  ' the most positive thing I’ve ever written' and that is clear on the first single. Chew On My Heart starts with James' vocals and a guitar . It could feel that it is another slow-tempo track from James Bay, but it is not. It is extremely joyful, hopeful and a celebration, maybe a celebration of love. Despite its cheerful spirit it has moments full of honesty          (   I  know no one could ever love me better // Take all night, you're the truth that is breaking me) . If James changed, by surprise, to alt-pop in his second project, he also surprised us this week with an unusual performance of the song for the Late Late Show with James Corden. He performed it on the London Eye . As he explains in the making of , he wanted a social distanced special performance and he really got it. He sang alone in a capsule whil

 I'm a big fan of this BBC Radio 1 section , in which the guest artist performs live some of his/her (recent) records or singles and , moreover, does a cover of a song chosen by him/her. This gives listeners and fans some notions about the musical taste of their favourite artist and proves the skill artists have to give their touch to an another singer's song. Here there is a list with some of my favourites: 1. Christine and the Queens:  Her Beyoncé's 'Sorry' cover was nominated to 'Radio 1 Live Lounge Performance of the Year' in 2016. She absolutely changed the song by adding an 80s vibe, the bass and making the song more melodic and pop. She took the song to the dancefloor and added her charasteristic Michael Jackson-inspired vocals. Of course, Heloise sang in French!  : Christine has visited more times the Live Lounge including when she went with Charli XCX to perform 'Gone' and brought a 90s retro vibe to 'TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME' by the 19