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The song is half-spoken, half-sung, Springsteen’s voice rough and breaking beneath the decades of labor it has done — labor rendered romantic through writing and performance. The story of her 2013 debut there smacks of a plotline on “Nashville” — appropriate, given that she co-wrote “Undermine,” one of the hits to emerge from the juggernaut TV series. “I don’t get high off my own supply, you know?” she says, mentioning, by way of inspiration, Willie Nelson’s ability to welcome “Republicans, rappers, presidents, my grandpa, your grandpa, our hipster friends, me” without treating anyone as superior to anyone else. And yet it is vexing in its restraint, pre-emptively silencing any retaliatory efforts. To see R.&B.’s newest names perform at events like the Grammys is a bit like seeing your high school gym teacher on a date — who even knew they owned fancy clothes? When Beyoncé sings of plans to get her girls and “put ’em all on a spaceship,” you feel that it’s not lyrically convenient but that she really means it. Full-length collaboration, please! would not be a good form of government. Her new album Dedicated's lead song "Julien" possesses a spry '80s electro beat but its gothic lyrics ("I'll be whispering 'Julien' / Through the last breath that I breathe") make it feel like Kate Bush wandered onto the dancefloor at Limelight. One of the older guys probably gave it to me. The music never loses its magic, but the social thing happening at a party or something like that? Blake’s default mode on “Assume Form,” which he calls “essentially a pop album,” is one you might call cautious euphoria. — leaving nary a trace of blood in the water. “Please me, baby / Turn around and just tease me, baby,” Bruno’s velvety voice purrs over a bed of swirling synths, balancing out Cardi’s brash, sex-drenched lyrics about her bedroom skills. Her performances are absorbing: They highlight the organic beauty and authority of her voice, the way the meanings of words can be a sort of veneer over their untamed musicality. Bhad Bhabie chucked a drink at Iggy Azalea and cemented her status as a memetic folk hero. Translating and arranging Blake’s intricate studio creations for live concerts is a tricky task made trickier still by his refusal to use a laptop. conviction. Copying singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder emboldened him to write and sing pop songs with increasing emotional candor. —Nerisha Penrose, The start of the new year usually finds most people in a contemplative state, and Lana Del Rey's solemn ballad fits right in. This playlist features some of 2021's best trap/rap hits. If you think about sports — you look at it because someone’s pushing themselves to their limit. It’s a soaring, Airbus of a ballad that’s satisfying to sing whether you’re Kelly Clarkson or pitchy old me. So much of what you write is sociological, a study of the neighborhood. Then there’s panic — you’ve gone over it so many times, you can’t even tell anymore if it’s good or not. ... “Right Now” finds its creator serving up tightly-wound, slick bars about cash, cars, cocaine and more. I didn’t have to study to pass my tests. It takes a special kind of fearlessness to write songs about killer queens who are dynamite with laser beams, or fat-bottomed girls who make the rocking world go ’round, or really fast cars that you might want to have sex with. MAKE A GOOD LEADER? And what a short, strange trip it was. When I made it, I knew anyone could relate. With tours you’re already so tightly scheduled in all other regards, that’s when I start to get anxious, feeling like I’m locked in.”. Now Blake led McAndrews and Assiter through a practice run of “I’ll Come Too,” a swooning new song about joining Jamil out west — about that moment when you want to follow a crush anywhere. That makes no sense. He was like, If that was me, I would be depressed, mad, angry. basketball on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation. I remember one time, this judge said, “I don’t give people three to six months; I give people three to six years” — for something like a first-time weed charge. Close collaborator Phoelix joins in for a chorus as smooth as it is sharp. Luckily, he has a wealth of actual love songs in his discography—sadly, not about me—and “If I Can’t Have You” has not left the “recently played” section in my library. He went missing in action in 1968. I got a mean team with me. It’s not too many people who can make it out of pointing a gun at a couple cops. Your mom’s at work, your dad’s in the graveyard, you’re not really getting nurtured, and I guess you just resort to acting up. That will be a big win for a lot of kids who will enter the system and probably would have gotten 10 to 20. Jenna Wortham is a staff writer for the magazine and co-host of the podcast “Still Processing.”. He described his life from adolescence on as largely unhappy, warm and supportive parents notwithstanding. They are asserting that they belong. Over a cinematic instrumental, Khalid's buttery vocals and Goldlink's rapid-fire flow blend seamlessly, leaving us wanting more from these two. Davidson: John Londono/Ninja Tune. For me, at least, it is. We meet the teenage Miles Morales in his bedroom, alone, doodling and bobbing his head to the bouncy hit about a dysfunctional relationship. There may be no better example of this than the group’s pop-soul exhalation “Girls Like You,” which spent seven weeks last year atop Billboard’s Hot 100 and 33 weeks in the Top 10. “Hunting for Bigfoot deep in the woods of East Texas. At the time of the song’s release, Springsteen was a young, attractive, muscular man who appeared midjump in front of an American flag on the single’s cover. In an era when most young rappers have a couple of face tattoos, 6ix9ine had the number 69 inked above his right eye in 72-point type. Whatever you do, whatever amount of energy you put into something, you have to do it for yourself and not to please others. I said in one of my raps, I was acting up in school because I thought it was cool, but really I was hurt. His influence extends even to artists he hasn’t worked with directly. “Baby Shark” also exemplifies the timeless appeal of really stupid songs. She’s wearing spangling athleisure and a pink hooded jacket made of a fabric I can describe only as “gift bag.” She’s with a male dancer who’s dressed complementarily in blue, and when she says, “ass like that,” he grinds himself into her. Probably eight months. Listen closely to the third track from the 2018 studio album “Your Queen Is a Reptile,” by the London jazz outfit Sons of Kemet, and you will hear a tenor saxophone, a tuba and two drummers, all moving at great speed. Drake later sampled unreleased music of Blake’s on a single called “0 to 100/The Catch Up.” Blake, who hadn’t approved this usage, got his part removed. A woman gets married to a man who later grows jealous and imprisons her. The same affected adolescent pain, updated for modern times. The track, a reimagining of Jay-Z’s song by the same title, is the marquee single from the band’s “Black Album.” I first heard Weezer’s version while driving a car, and I almost had to pull over. Cultivating this sort of personal mythology is not at all new; it dates back to the earliest days of gangsta rap. Fighting and acting up. (“Callin’ it quits now, baby, I’m a wreck,” his collaborator Swae Lee sings. It’s an upbeat tune that feels like the honeymoon phase of a summer romance. I usually take about eight months to produce a piece as well. Widen the focus, though, and you will learn that the song is called “My Queen Is Harriet Tubman,” and that each song title on the album references a heroic black woman who has inspired the band’s leader, the London-born, Barbados-raised saxophone player Shabaka Hutchings. “Gimme the Loot” samples another vocal, from A Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario (Remix)” — a line from the late Troy Anthony Hall, a.k.a. “It’s like if Daft Punk went totally science,” she says, “and I’m here for that.”. When will the state agree to cooperate WOULD AN A.I. Music video by Nick Jonas, Robin Schulz performing Right Now. DJ Noize presents the best of Hip Hop, Rap, RnB, Dancehall, Reggaeton, Urban & Remixes in the mix! Things we’ve been traumatized by our whole lives — we have a right to talk about it. Lots to do.” It is imposing, you’d guess, to have an album scheduled for release that you haven’t begun to record. Five-odd years ago, Blake suffered from a depression so severe that he considered suicide. The Carters have collaborated for almost two decades on songs that rotate around their love of money (“’03 Bonnie & Clyde”) and of infatuation (“Crazy in Love”). There's a subtext that they're kind of scared. He’s the ultimate embodiment of a stubbly, privileged white bro who belatedly realizes that he needs his partner. Maroon 5’s success contains multitudes. In “thank u, next,” Grande casts her exes as steppingstones on her path to greatness, men who taught her “patience,” “pain” and, ultimately, how little she needed them. Juice WRLD is not the first or only artist to work in the emo-rap subgenre. The track has a few elastic moments at the top of verses, but for the most part, Carey maintains a syncopated, crooning sing-speak. Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. As the story goes, DaBaby made 2019’s breakout smash hit “Suge” right after begging his label for a check. It’s a straightforward sample of an extremely familiar song (a remix of Lil’ Kim’s 1997 “Crush on You”). The band moved next to a song called “Where’s the Catch,” on which Blake and André 3000 sing and rap, respectively, about what Blake characterized as “a distrust of really great things: ‘Everything’s seemingly nice — for today. —Estelle Tang, "But all that glitters isn't gold, I was blinded / Should have never gave you my heart on consignment," Kehlani sings out the gate on her new song "Nights Like This." What’s the charge you’re still on probation for? “Riot” is the haunting slow burner that tells the story of a dying relationship that’s “too routine.” Summer’s lover is content with doing the bare minimum (“And you think of roses and daisies”) but the unhappy singer requires a love more passionate than the typical. Here are the best songs 2019 had to offer. And indeed, she isn’t: This two-and-a-half-minute song, with its balmy synth bass and irresistible syncopations and enticing whispers peppered throughout, has racked up more than 59 million views on YouTube. Copying the hip-hop producer Timbaland and the South London dubstep craftsman Mala informed Blake’s love of distorted timbres — electronic rhythms that skitter and twitch as often as they groove — and of sampling, a technique of literal copying (and cutting and pasting) so central to Blake’s practice today that, even when he isn’t sampling anyone else, he routinely samples himself. Hot Right Now - Best of 2019 | Best R&B Hip Hop Rap Songs | by DJ Noize By DJ Noize. Enough to be able to get outside of yourself and see a different perspective or point of view.”, What makes Musgraves such a resonant figure right now, in fact, is the way her response to a dark, anxious moment in human history is to move willfully closer to lightness, to stillness, toward the possibility of a world that comes in more colors than red or blue. This also makes Post Malone a perfect fit for Spider-Man, the canonical story of awkward adolescent empowerment. Blake described it to me as “a song about intimacy — about feeling like you don’t deserve intimacy and feeling like there’s no way somebody could really want it with you.” The song’s themes are sex, shame and — by the end — happiness. For Mercury and his bandmates, there was no line between stupid and clever; in many of the best Queen songs, stupid is clever. You’re working with some powerful people in the Reform Alliance. There was no such thing as logging off back then, so his symbol of freedom and release was an old-fashioned one: bicycling. Ally’s on the verge of superstardom, but nearly all of the singing we’ve seen her do has been with Cooper’s character, Jackson Maine — this impossible fusion of grunge, roots country, pills, booze, pain, encroaching deafness and the Whole Damn American Truth. You get strip-searched before you go in, fingerprinted every day. (After she told reporters that psychedelics influenced a couple of songs, including “Slow Burn,” it was all anyone wanted to talk about.) entertainers. The Rolling Stone Top 100 is a song chart that ranks popular songs from today's most popular artists. But I’ve had family and friends incarcerated, and part of their probation would be that they couldn’t drive. At their feet, black cables snaked and cloverleafed among clusters of red-, blue-, silver- and cream-colored effects pedals, like tracks connecting villages in a model-train set. All other source photographs: Getty Images. “Didn’t you think ‘Lazy Scranton’ was funny?” “No,” the employee says. But it’s hard — I’m singing all the way through, in all these different ranges, and I don’t get a chance to breathe. “The music kids are listening to is heavy! “This record does kind of nod to some of the social and political things that are going on, but it’s just doing it in a different way. I was counting the birds on the wire: This bird’s gonna fly off in 10, 9, 8, 7. —Estelle Tang, I’m asking everyone to say a prayer for me. dictated pop’s music imperatives. She’s back after a decade-long hiatus from music with a single that proves she has lived some life since releasing “Candy” back in ‘99. On Broadway, Springsteen mentions something else: He tells the story of him and two of his friends being summoned to the selective-service office, as a prelude to being sent to Vietnam — for what, he says, “we were sure was going to be our funeral.” They did everything they could to get out of being drafted, and succeeded. Recruit Billy Ray freaking Cyrus for a remix. Whose history belongs in our museums? I think it can be that, for sure. One of the scientists’ 1970s professorial look, she pointed out, was “literally like what the band wears” in her stage show. Watch Kacey Musgraves turn country music psychadelic. Along with writing an op-ed for The New York Times and appearing on national news shows, the rapper helped start the Reform Alliance, an organization dedicated to getting one million Americans out of the prison system. Lennox's velvety rich voice over the nostalgic R&B beat makes this an instant summer bop. Over the last year, an increasingly dominant voice in this mix has been Post Malone, a 23-year-old sort-of-rapper from suburban Dallas. Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, André 3000 and Travis Scott are among those artists who have enlisted Blake’s assistance. DaBaby covers common rap tropes, yes, but it's his signature breathless, rapid-fire flow matching the high-energy beats he cruises on that sets hi, apart from his contemporaries. —Nerisha Penrose, In the self-filmed video for “Binz,” Solange is all smiley and bubbly as she twerks to the groovy, jazz-inflected melody. Sorry to the men of country, but this is the genre’s new order. And yet by the end of the aughts, she had begun receding behind her production, talk-singing and whispering where she used to overaccentuate each phrase. The album’s title — “Remind Me Tomorrow” — comes from an Apple computer software-update alert option that Van Etten found herself selecting again and again, a perpetual prompt for something she needed to do and never quite got done. I’m still learning that. —Nerisha Penrose, Sex sells, but Rapsody has never been one to conform to hip-hop's misogynistic views of women. A few years ago, Sharon Van Etten was interviewing another musician — Mimi Parker, from the band Low — on the NPR program “All Songs Considered.” Van Etten, then in her mid-30s, was thinking about having a kid and wanted to ask Parker, a mother of two, about what it would be like to be a mom and a touring musician at the same time. You got me, Jonii! I am 31. Nor do the boisterous Voice of Atlanta gospel choir and Equinox Percussion drum corps who enlivened the band’s performance of the song during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. You don’t value yourself because you grow up not being valued. On one track it’s a place of emergency, with crisscrossing bagpipes and voice evoking a landscape pierced by unending sirens; on another it’s a dream, with a wintry, synth-heavy gloom giving way to hazy tenderness, like a Kate Bush song peered at through depth-obliterating fog. Do you think people who aren’t musicians are aware of how physically taxing it can be? “Maybe I [expletive] failed you,” he goes on. The singer talks about what it costs us, having to do all that work. —Nerisha Penrose, What makes Dua Lipa’s music so irresistible is that she can throw her smooth, smoky warble on just about any record—and shine. As its lyrics switch between optimistic vows of commitment and confessions of insecurity, this duality is echoed in the music, which consists of two alternating piano motifs — one shimmering, the other overcast. But Is She a Murderer? Jody Rosen is a contributing writer for the magazine and the author of a forthcoming book about bicycles. The mommy-to-be brings Ty Dolla $ign into the mix, and the west coast crooners' voices blend seamlessly until the song's end. And you’ve got to think about it — you’ve got 18-, 19-year-old kids, sending them to a whole building full of rapists, killers. We asked Grimes to elaborate. ...’” Complicating things further, Blake’s piano playing on the track was “loose — like, microseconds” offbeat, he said, which would add yet another layer of difficulty when it came to replicating “Assume Form” live. I know we’re trying to warn them, but it also seems as if you’re dictating their future. They’re just giving this guy three years to get taught this mentality. Spanish singer Rosalía has given you everything you need for the club: a call for sangria and couture, leopard print and nails more decorated than Versailles. Yes, the 13th. When Grimes released ‘‘We Appreciate Power’’ in late 2018, a press statement explained the song’s conceit: Inspired by North Korean pop, it was written from the perspective of a girl group working to advance the aims of artificial intelligence. Sometimes when she sings it, Van Etten seems to be talking to an earlier version of herself, “Come back, kid!” Other times, she’s talking about someone who is definitely not her: the comeback kid. She would make it happen on her own terms.” It’s their parents’ model of small-town independence, Musgraves figures, that gave her a tend-your-own-garden will. (“The society we live in at the moment,” Robyn says — “we didn’t really make it very good, you know?”) But they’re a lot more motivated — whether it’s to articulate something bleak or find their way toward something better — than you might expect. No love is worth losing yourself for, and it’s a liberating feeling when you claw your way out of heartbreak and fall in love with yourself a little more. Case in point: On “Stoopid,” which came out last fall, 6ix9ine insults two rappers he was feuding with at the time, but unless you were listening for it, you probably wouldn’t have noticed. The difference between “Whack World” and an aggressively repetitive earworm like Lil Pump’s hit, “Gucci Gang,” can be summed up very simply: Tierra Whack abhors boredom, and her first line of defense is, for want of a better word, wackiness. 6ix9ine is far from the only rapper to have ever made dubious claims to being a Blood, but Instagram has a way of making even the most absurd feints real. It can still conjure sense memories of decades past — windows down, crooning out into the forgiving dusk. I look back on my 18-year-old self belting out lines like “You are 18-year-old girl who live in small city of Japan,” and have, if not regrets, questions. No. It's also a world where Princess Nokia refuses to take "S.H.I.T" from anyone. And I was caught just in time.”. “Baby Shark” is thought to have been born in American summer camps, perhaps several decades ago. Beyoncé And Jay-Z know whose work has long been left out of the canon, and they won’t let it happen to theirs. The saxophone shouts back, offering growling rhythmic lines with just a pinch of melody. He performed his first hit single, “White Iverson,” in gold teeth and cornrows, raising inevitable questions of cultural appropriation. Just at random. Juice WRLD is 20, from the suburbs of Chicago. Last year, when pressed by Pitchfork to explain “Love It if We Made It,” Healy posed a delectable stupid-clever rhetorical: “How weird is reality?”. “Can’t Knock the Hustle” fills me with a vague, general regret and an apprehension for what’s to come. Initially he sampled other people’s vocals, but later he began singing himself. Coming from seeing violence, people robbed, people murdered, you heard gunshots every night — couldn’t sleep. 6. But you’ve got people working for eight cents in here. The song became a minor anthem, and the album it came from, “Working Class Woman,” was embraced as one of the best dance records of the year. Source photograph: Scott Dudelson/WireImage, via Getty Images. I’ll just keep replaying “Spirit” because it’s SO. Much more memorable were the Instagram videos he made to antagonize the two; in one he took his rival’s former girlfriend and mother of his child out shopping. Like most ancient people in their declining years, I keep up with today’s hit music entirely through my teenage daughter. Its recent history is clearer. It’s years and years of work and trial and error. This sort of online mythmaking is second nature to SoundCloud rappers, so called for the streaming service that birthed the scene. —Nerisha Penrose, It's easy to forget Goldlink is reminiscing about his rough adolescent years on "Days Like This." He’s soused. In other words, it was early conditioning for what everybody assumed your future was going to be. But according to the movie’s competing authenticities (Jackson’s idea of it versus her manager’s; rock versus pop), love is a luxury. In the case of Travis Scott’s smash “Sicko Mode,” which came out Aug. 3, 2018, and has been on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart every week since, 30 different songwriters are credited. Reading made me process the system. Jamie Lauren Keiles is a writer in Queens working on a novel about smoking. A show in Chicago had been canceled, thanks to the polar freeze that had descended over the Midwest, leaving her stuck in the middle of a vast tundra with a buildup of tour adrenaline and nowhere to put it. will reward us when it reigns HOW WILL HUMANS AND A.I. at the Disco. "Stupid" by Ashnikko feat. Blake is from London, but three and a half years ago he began dating the British comedic actress Jameela Jamil, and when she booked a lead role on the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” he tagged along with her to California. It was the final single from All Nite Madness.The song peaked at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart, number 19 in Italy, and number six in Finland.In 2005, the song represented Lower Saxony in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005, placing fourth with 85 points. —Nerisha Penrose, You can’t escape “Old Town Road”—not that you’d want to. It’ll probably spare Google. I grew up hearing debates about the worthiness of this or that singer devolve into shouting matches, the assertion that a favored artist could sing but not really sang being an affront to your system of taste and judgment. Scroll to the end to find a more comprehensive Spotify playlist of 2019 TikTok hits. “It’s not like I was tripping my face off every day,” she clarifies. When I saw the support people gave me. Two soulful, passionate voices harmonizing about an enchanting stranger over a colorful, upbeat rhythm. Or to know that the heroes from your hometown never made it out because war got to them first. I don’t care. Do you think people base too much of their self-worth on their work? “Baby Shark” offers an antidote, an escape: a song that delivers us from danger — safe at last! Even if you're not quite there yet, Lizzo's "Juice" is there to give you the boost you need. quote-unquote band drag rock into the future? is back in vogue after having spent several years in the background as E.D.M. Younger artists are pushing the genre forward in many respects: intriguing, pared-down personal style (SZA); forceful, nuanced messaging (Solange); swaggering vocals that don’t feel yoked to the rap feature (H.E.R. 2019 was a year of upheaval in the pop music world, with new voices rising to the fore through unexpected pathways.Lizzo’s career was jolted forward by … Do you think I woke up one morning and became who I am? Source photograph: Ethan Miller/WireImage, via Getty Images. As an influence and a collaborator, Blake has helped shape two of the more striking trends in contemporary pop: beats that mutate over the course of a song, resisting any traditionally identifiable center, and an emotional atmosphere in which the line between hedonism and melancholy, bliss and despair comes undone. All other source photographs: Getty Images. Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Looking deeper, and seeing the way some of those things are broken down in “The New Jim Crow,” it made me really wonder. “It’s scary,” she allowed. She's thinking about a dishonest someone who "took my feelings and just threw 'em out the window" and now she's left to pick up the pieces of her broken heart. It’s just normal mistakes. It struck me as something that’s easy for the industry to exploit. It’s also a folk song, with origins as obscure as “The Dowie Dens o’ Yarrow” or any of those other ancient airs whose authorship long ago vanished in the mists. “Oh, who knows, it was years ago,” she replied, then sang happily along to a remix that showed Morgan Freeman superimposed on a colorful tunnel of celestial light. He charged me for him punching my face. and the Sunshine Band’s “That’s the Way (I Like It),” and so that group’s Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch get credits, despite appearing nowhere on “Sicko Mode.”, 9. I feel like if you engage with anything that involves machine learning, even if you’re using Alexa, you’re technically giving it knowledge and helping it learn. Right Here, Right Now by Fatboy SlimOrder 'Eat Sleep Rave Repeat' on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ESRR-SKINTSubscribe now - http://bit.ly/Subscribe2FatboySlim He remembered thinking, That’s my only expression as a human being, so I may as well not be here. There’s nothing harsher than having your relationship converted into a learning experience. —Estelle Tang, Per the title, don't listen to this one before you go to bed. I have to acknowledge that I may be taking “Can’t Knock the Hustle” personally to an unreasonable degree. It’s a thought experiment that says the A.I. —Estelle Tang, Hello, song of the summer! I had a couple friends outside of school, so I wasn’t totally alone, but I remember years of sitting by myself at lunch. The aesthetic was embarrassing, even in its time — circuses, graveyards, men in eyeliner. “Should we try ‘Assume Form?’” Assiter asked. I mean, you can’t shoot nobody and expect to be getting chances. Her success, she has argued, is partly because of listeners’ weariness with the homogenization — which is to say, the Anglicization — of pop. Within about a year, he would be in federal custody, a 22-year-old facing life in prison for a number of charges, including racketeering and attempted murder. Tay Keith, born BryTavious Chambers, just graduated from college in Tennessee. On Broadway, Bruce Springsteen performs “Born in the U.S.A.” largely in silence. A playlist of the best rock music from August 2019 including The 1975, Big Thief, Whitney, DIIV, Jay Som, and more. That was my life. rapid rise and sudden fall of Tekashi 6ix9ine. But overt revival acts — like the popular Michigan act Greta Van Fleet, whose members all dress exactly as Brian May did in 1973 — tend not to sonically resemble Queen beyond its first single, the quicksilver Led Zeppelin nod “Keep Yourself Alive.” No, the contemporary band that comes closest to emulating Queen’s whole legacy — as a shameless polymath pop act, willing to try anything, including but not remotely limited to metal, disco, rockabilly, theatrical English music-hall, folk, synth-pop and power ballads that turn unexpectedly into mock-opera freakouts — is the 1975. The Jay-Z original is about selling drugs, with lines like “At my arraignment screaming/All us blacks got is sports and entertainment, until we even/Thieving, as long as I’m breathing,” with a chorus sung by Mary J. Blige. His aversion to the artifice of showbiz would seem to be hers: It’s all about the craft for us, baby. On the isolated stage of a theater, all that’s left is knowing that the singer has loved and dreamed and lost in a country sometimes not worth loving and dreaming and losing in. "Looking For America" is Lana Del Rey's response. —Nerisha Penrose, Last we heard of Bruno Mars and Cardi B, they had fans doing the old-school wop and Kid 'n Play dance to their '90s-inspired gem “Finesse.” For the duo’s sequel, “Please Me,” Bruno and Cardi leave the House Party and head straight to the bedroom. Scott is quoting 1994’s “Gimme the Loot” by the Notorious B.I.G. “She was wheeling and dealing.”, There was, of course, the requisite period in which a teenage Musgraves turned her back on the whole cowgirl thing. There was another book I got in prison, about black kids — the fourth grade, things go wrong and grades start to decline. I’ve sacrificed that freedom for other things. He describes his own music as “a therapy session” and cites influences like Fall Out Boy, Bullet for My Valentine, Senses Fail and Panic! Weezer is a band with a fanatical but divided fan base, much of which believes that the band went downhill after its second album, “Pinkerton” (there’s even an “S.N.L.” skit about this schism). Wind down all the car windows and get it all out. "You talkin' shit 'bout my music/But what the fuck have you dropped?/Now what the fuck have you done?/Accolades, you have none," she raps over horns and finger snaps. 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