The MixtapE! Presents Missy Elliott, Charlie Puth and Extra New Music Musts
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One other week, one other large new music dump.
By now, you have in all probability given Taylor Swifts attractive new album Lover all of the obsessive repeat listens that 18-track magnum opus deserves, parsing by way of its lyrics for all of the hints about her ultra-private relationship with boyfriend Joe Alwyn, but when that is the place your musical journey has stopped this Friday, you’d actually be lacking out on way more great things. That is the place we are available in.
Welcome to week two of The MixtapE!
After spending our morning listening to only about all the pieces this New Music Friday needed to supply, we return to you with our picks for the perfect of the perfect, the stuff that is demanding you make room for it in your Spotify playlists. It simply is perhaps the proper soundtrack for no matter you have received deliberate this weekend. And sure, earlier than you ask, T.Swift is within the combine. However which track made the listing? You will should learn on to seek out out!
(And should you missed week one, you’ll be able to test it out right here!)
Missy Elliott – “Throw It Again”
Are you able to consider it has been 14 years since Missy Elliott final launched a full-length album? Positive, there have been one-off tracks—2015’s “WTF (The place They From)” is a killer—and visitor appearances right here and there, but it surely’s been a reasonably agonizing await a correct return. And that wait is lastly over. Forward of receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at this yr’s MTV VMAs on Monday, Aug. 26, she’s launched a brand new EP appropriately referred to as Iconology. Whereas the entire thing is price a hear, the standout right here is “Throw It Again,” which finds the long-lasting rapper reminding the youngsters simply why she’s revered as such. True to type, the accompanying video is filled with eye-popping lewks and slick choreography. Welcome again, Missy. Please do not make us wait this lengthy ever once more.
Charlie Puth – “I Warned Myself”
For the lead single off his upcoming third album, Charlie tries on a way more mature, sensual sound than ever earlier than. And it suits him like a glove. His silky falsetto will get an help from a throbbing bassline courtesy of Benny Blanco‘s manufacturing, making for one severely attractive quantity. It is the start of a complete new period for the hit maker and we’re all the best way right here for it.
Taylor Swift feat. The Dixie Chicks – “Quickly You will Get Higher”
Like we mentioned, there was no approach Taylor could be left off this week’s listing. However selecting only one observe from Lover was a near-Herculean feat when virtually all of them have been worthy of inclusion. And whereas we debated making the pitch-perfect kiss-off anthem “I Forgot That You Existed,” the spiky feminist bop “The Man” or “Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince,” which finds her out-Lana Del Rey-ing Lana Del Rey, we stored coming again to this heartbreaking observe. With a delicate help from the legendary Dixie Chicks, “Quickly You will Get Higher” finds Taylor bearing her soul as she sings about her mother Andrea’s battle with most cancers. See if you can also make it previous the primary refrain with out getting a lump in your throat.
Ben Platt – “Rain”
Ben Platt has been a busy boy. The Tony winner has already launched one album this yr, on high of filming the primary season of Ryan Murphy‘s debut Netflix collection, The Politician, dropping on the streaming service subsequent month, and now he is again with extra new music. And it simply is perhaps his finest observe but. Teaming with producer Alex Hope, who’s labored with the likes of Troye Sivan and Tove Lo, Ben takes his crystalline vocal to the dance ground on this emotional banger about working by way of heartbreak to present love one other probability. “I hope it brings you dance and catharsis,” he tweeted. “Could I counsel you blast it.” We second that emotion.
Charli XCX – “Miss U”
One other week, one other Charli observe. With simply weeks to go earlier than the discharge of her self-titled third album, she’s dropped one other observe, solely this one involves us as part of the 13 Causes Why season three soundtrack. “Miss U” is a little bit of a tragic banger, discovering the English pop star opening up about heartbreak. Generally‚ I miss you after I’m on their lonesome/And regardless that we each moved on/Generally I play your favorite track/I play it on and on,” she tells her former lover. Who hasn’t been there?
Mura Masa & Clairo – “I Do not Assume I Can Do This Once more”
And now for one thing somewhat left of heart. Mura Masa (born Alexander Crossan) is again along with his first new track since his 2017 self-titled debut album, which featured appearances by alt-pop faves like Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, and Damon Albarn (the lead singer of Gorillaz). Right here, he groups with Clairo, whose debut album Immunity, launched earlier this month, has made her one in every of pop music’s latest rising stars. We’re glad to report that his demented method to pop manufacturing stays in tact, and when the track erupts after the primary refrain, it took us proper again to a few of our favourite alt-pop of the early aughts. (Assume The Faint or Interpol.) Mura Musa may not be for everybody, however should you like your pop somewhat off-kilter, you will dig this.
Alessia Cara – “Okay Okay”
This new observe off the Canadian pop star’s forthcoming EP This Summer season is simply the kind of track you’d hope to get on one thing so seasonally themed. After explaining that her pal requested for a track “we might really feel ourselves to,” the typically-downbeat singer busts out her finest braggadocio on the refrain. “I am 1,000,000 trick pony/The primary and solely/On a scale of 1 to 10, I am at 11,” she sings. “Okay, okay.” Flip it on and also you simply would possibly really feel your self too.
Emotional Oranges – “Simply Like You”
Who’re Emotional Oranges? Nobody actually is aware of. The R&B collective has been releasing music anonymously for the final yr now, and their newest is a sultry little slice of heaven that sees a female and male vocalist commerce verses about lacking that somebody particular. It is excellent for these scorching August nights when you end up excited about the one you wanna be with and issues get just a bit bit too steamy. Come on, you realize you have been there.
Zac Brown Band – “Want This”
You realize these weekends the place you simply must let off some steam, when it has been an extended week, work’s been exhausting, and also you simply overlook about all of it for somewhat bit? The blokes within the Zac Brown Band do too and their newest single off their upcoming sixth studio album, The Owl, is an ode to only that. Again by manufacturing from Ryan Tedder, Andrew Roberts, Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd, and himself, frontman Zac Brown sings, “Drop these luggage, let’s get all the way down to enterprise/Did not drive all night time simply to witness/Gentle me up like 12 days of Christmas/All I do know is true now I would like this.” Let this observe be all of the permission it’s essential let your hair down this weekend and stay. it. up.
Bonus Tracks:
Why Do not We – “What Am I”: After successful Selection Music Group at this yr’s Teen Selection Awards, the boy band returns with a observe penned by none apart from Ed Sheeran. It is a romantic little factor that should function a reminder that the time-honored custom of American boy bands is alive and effectively of their arms.
Lana Del Rey – “F**okay it I really like you”: Per week forward of the discharge of her sixth studio album, Norman F–king Rockwell,” pop’s most ethereal vocalist offers us one final preview of what is in retailer with this observe, co-produced by Jack Antonoff. It is a suitably moody affair, so, you realize, basic Lana.
5 Seconds of Summer season – “Enamel”: This Australian boy band are constructing on a more recent, extra mature sounds they launched final yr on their third album, Youngblood, as they put together to launch their fourth. Lead single “Simpler” completely slaps, and this newest one does, too. Rising up has by no means sounded so good.
Cheat Codes, Sofia Reyes & Willy William – “Freeway”: For his or her newest single, DJ trio Cheat Codes (consisting of Kevin Ford, Trevor Dahl, and Matthew Russell) went worldwide, tapping the Mexican singer Sofia and French DJ Willy for this sparkly little late-summer bop that is simply begging you to roll down the home windows in your automobile and sing alongside on the highest of your lungs.
Completely happy listening!