Billboard’s Friday Music Information serves as a useful information to this Friday’s most important releases — the important thing music that everybody will likely be speaking about at present, and that will likely be dominating playlists this weekend and past.
This week, Olivia Rodrigo wrestles with a (nice) dangerous thought, Karol G retains gathering W’s and Trippie Redd reveals a brand new facet of himself. Try all of this week’s picks beneath:
Olivia Rodrigo, “dangerous thought proper?”
Two years in the past, Olivia Rodrigo preceded her debut album with a spectacularly emotional ballad and a head-banging pop-punk anthem; each of these songs, “drivers license” and “good 4 u,” reached the highest of the Scorching 100, and Bitter grew to become a year-defining full-length. Rodrigo is using an identical playbook along with her sophomore effort, GUTS, because the theatrical epic “Vampire” has been adopted by the driving shout-along “dangerous thought proper?” — though the brand new single is way from a rehash, as an alternative mixing pop, riot grrrl rock and new wave right into a compact call-and-response ode to ex-boyfriend temptation. Greater than something, Rodrigo understands the way to give extensive swaths of listeners precisely what they want, no matter tempo or sound — it’s the explanation why she’s a celebrity on the age of 20.
Karol G, Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season)
Few in style artists are having a greater industrial yr than Karol G: after Mañana Será Bonito album grew to become the primary all-Spanish language album by a girl to succeed in No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, the Colombian celebrity plotted headlining dates in soccer stadiums, carried out on Saturday Night time Reside and popped up on the best-selling Barbie soundtrack. Now, the successful streak continues with Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), a companion piece to her current album, but additionally a 30-minute mission that stands by itself; new collaborations with Kali Uchis and Peso Pluma are particularly dynamic, whereas beforehand launched single “S91” sounds much more impactful within the context of a full-length.
Trippie Redd, A Love Letter to You 5
A Love Letter to You 5 stands out as the fifth and remaining version of Trippie Redd’s in style mixtape collection that started in 2017, however the 19-track mission feels notably considerate and expansive, as if the hip-hop streaming juggernaut needed to finish the mission with the most important, finest installment doable. Lil Wayne, Roddy Ricch and The Child LAROI all swing by, though the pair of collaborations with Skye Morales, the gifted singer and Trippie Redd’s former associate, are particularly poignant, and shed new mild on a prolific star’s emotional vary.
DJ Khaled feat. Lil Child, Future & Lil Uzi Vert, “Supposed To Be Liked”
Summertime is a season for seashore days, yard barbecues and star-studded DJ Khaled singles — and though it’s already mid-August, Khaled has come via with a music that may little doubt linger within the mainstream till the leaves start to fall. “Supposed To Be Liked” not solely corrals Lil Child, Future and Lil Uzi Vert and lets them unfurls some surprisingly tender bars, however Khaled positions the hip-hop summit over a pattern of Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T.,” as additional insurance coverage that the brand new single will likely be easy and summer-friendly.
V, “Love Me Once more”
A couple of weeks after his BTS band mate Jung Kook topped the Scorching 100 chart together with his Latto collaboration “Seven,” V steps ahead together with his personal solo bid, albeit with a really completely different sonic method. “I want you’ll love me once more / No, I don’t need no one else,” V sings, his vulnerability matched by delicate R&B manufacturing that motions towards jazz and traditional soul; the subtleties of “Love Me Once more” start to disclose themselves on the primary pay attention, then deepen with every new play.
Editor’s Choose: The Hives, The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons
Swedish punk veterans The Hives invaded America in the course of the garage-rock motion of the early ‘00s, as singles like “Hate to Say I Advised You So” and “Stroll Fool Stroll” made their intense presences felt on MTV and various radio. The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons is the quintet’s first album in over a decade, however from the opening riffs of lead observe “Bogus Operandi,” the group swaggers again into view like they by no means left, filling 31 hard-charging minutes with punk performances that may make any thirtysomething wish to get again within the pit.
