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 After her hit, I Hope You're Happy Now (ft. Lee Brice), which made her win a CMA Award, Carly Pearce is back with an EP of 7 songs. The first single of the project was Next Girl , written by Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally and Carly hersef. It is uptempo, fast and funny , with some clever lines referencing her ex songs' lyrics and with a teaching effort to warn the 'next girl' . Inspired by women of country (Reba, Patty Loveless...), the song is a cool breeze to mainstream country and brings back some bluegrass touch that connects with Carly Pearce's childhood and origin of her love for the country music genre.  The rest of the songs of the EP remain much sadder, focusing on heartbreak from a thoughtful perspective, like in the title track, where she thinks about the year 29, when your life is usually on track, you're young and, at the same time, closer to reach certain maturity. The percussive  Messy talks about the difficulty of moving on, as Day One does too. ...

 Dua Lipa released on February 11th the reedition of her second album 'Future Nostalgia', called 'Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition'. The world was expecting some tracks to dance to, but, when the tracklist was revealed, something changed. Dua lipa decided to include a bunch of bonus tracks that sum up her latest collaborations, from Fever (ft. Ángele) to One Day (ft. JBalvin and Bad Bunny).  Ángele's collab already was far from the album concept, being much darker and far from the disco influences. The Miley Cyrus collab is probably the most similar to the Future Nostalgia record, both remembering the 80s. However, what's the reason for including One Day on the record? A pop-reggaeton track, with no references to the 80s, no disco vibes. The inclusion of these collaborations has made the reedition rely on other people names and it makes you think that they had to search songs to fill the record. The reedition also includes some new songs and the single, W...

 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 ...

Back in October, the chancellor Rishi Sunak suggested that ' musicians and others in arts should retrain and find other jobs' . These generated a deserved reaction from music artists, ruined by the pandemic and the impossibility of doing live concerts . As Tim Burge ss properly said for The Guardian ' Sunak didn’t seem to take into account (...) that musicians and actors have been working other jobs for years – as baristas, chefs, roadies, graphic designers or bartenders, and in so many roles in the ironically named “gig” economy – to fill the time between, well, gigs'.  That is what Coventry singer and songwriter, YNES dennounces in her new song, 'Better Job'. The track sounds punk and , maybe,  there is no better genre for battling disappointment and impotence, asking for help for an industry that annually collects millions, but which is now defenceless, much more since UK's government Brexit deal. The irritation and anger in YNES voice make you touch teen...

 In 2018, Grady Smith, released one of his most famous videos, 'This beat is killing country music'(Stop the snaps)' , in which he pointed out the excessive use of claps or snap tracks in country music. Often used in pop music (as it is shown in the video, for example, in Halsey's Without Me), the trend became a must in country pop and more in the boyfriend country subgenre, forgetting the use of country instruments for the confort and simplicity of the snap beat.  Two years later the beat keeps on pop music and on  mainstream country music, like in Gabby Barrett's I Hope . Its spread has been so huge that it is almost in every genre, in latin melodic pop too !  Latin music is crammed by reggaeton and latin trap, as I said in my last post, and there is so little space for latin melodic pop. Almost every artist that made melodic pop in the past had to adapt and make urban music (Luis Fonsi, Álex Ubago, Pedro Capó...) and the artists that remain making it use this bea...

On Wednesday, the Spanish single chart was updated and Olivia Rodrigo's Drivers License peaked at a new position: number 4, entering to the top five. Last week, it entered at number 10. This new peak is surprising; Long-awaited or viral songs which debut in their first week on the top 10, tend to drop out of it the next week.  It is also unexpected because its biggest streaming peak on Spotify was on January 12th (17 million streams),However, the song is rising now in Spain , where the Top 100 is mostly filled by reggaeton or trap tracks (like the rest of the top 10) , that truly reach some stability on the chart. International pop acts do not usually reach these high positions , like Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi (which is still charting but peaked on number 45), Positions (that peaked on number 23) or Harry Styles' Watermelon Sugar (peak position at number 43).  This is also happening to Spanish-pop artists (with the exceptions of Camilo and C Tangana), like Aitana,...

    The West Midlands band  released their first single last month and now they drop 'Something To Do' , their first track of the year. 'Something To Do' is a song about some party nights ,where you might drink too much and 'maybe regretting it a bit the next day'. The lyrics are sad but truly illustrative ' Feels like I've lost Another round ' /' The drinks aren't working anymore ' /' Each night here's left me black and blue ' .  However, the melody feels happy, joyful, and currently uplifting, leaving aside the concern and, even, the existentialism  of the lyrics.   It brings out youth's inocence of  unintended mistakes while swimming in doubt. The song will give you 90s or early 2000s nostalgia and will make you look back on those nights at bars or pubs , which seem so far these days . This is a great second move from the band, able to match strong feelings of sadness with delicious, pleasant and delightful melodies.

 After releasing her first single just a week ago 'Like Heaven' Graywave drops at midnight her second single ('Before') and part of her EP, 'Planetary Shift'. The goth rock spirit, with a contagious and great play of drums and guitars act as the background, covers and wraps every second of the track, making it dark. But this gloomy and dull sensation is soon swept by Graywave brave vocals, full of  angry, peaking in the last 40 seconds of the song, where she sings as a warrior, letting out all of her feelings. Listen to her last single, 'Like Heaven' :

 '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)

  Morgan Wallen has released today his highly-anticipated album. The record, with 30 tracks, includes some of his hits, like ' 7 summers' or ' More Than My Hometown' . His new single, premiered yesterday with a live performance ,is 'Sand In My Boots' . It is the first song of the album and is one of the best. It addresses elements of country living  ( that will repeat along the record) in the background of a sweet  love story.  The project has got some songs that match the title and the subject of  it, the danger, like ' Warning' , ' Neon Eyes' or even  'Living The Dream'  . They pretend to feel dark and that is brought by some beats and a more close to rock sound, but it frecquently make the songs lose their country sound, with the exception of ' Outlaw ' (ft. Ben Burgess, who also is cowriter of some songs), with some word play ('It takes a hell of an angel'). The album succeeds in tender love songs like the mentioned ...