Conan Gray, "Telepath": A Synth-Pop Ode to the One Who Keeps Crawling Back
"Call me a telepath..." Conan Gray is kind of psychic. It's like he has ESPN or something. After dropping his Top 5-charting debut album Kid Krow last year, including "Maniac" and the TikTok-trending "Heather," his most commercially successful hit yet, as well as a slew of singles ever since,…
"Start Walking": Tove Styrke Feels Her Dansband Fantasy With a Sad Swede-Pop Banger
"Say the words, either way it's gonna hurt..." Nothing is certain in this world except death, taxes, and good pop music coming out of Scandinavia. Tove Stryke's at it again with a brand new bop, following this summer's "Mood Swings," her first release in three years since 2018's Sway. And this…
"Burning Bridges": Sigrid Sings the Pop Praises of Self-Preservation
"Can't love somebody who loves burning bridges..." Alright, Miss Sigrid is not playing around. To be fair, it was made abundantly clear upon the release of euphoric disco-pop smash "Mirror" back in May that the 24-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter was breaking out the big guns for her…
"Live To Survive": The Triumphant Return of MØ
MØ's back. (Everyone kind of just says "mo," but it's technically pronounced like meu.) The Danish superstar singer-songwriter, who you surely know and love best from the inescapable "Lean On" with Major Lazer and DJ Snake (at one point, the most-streamed song of all time), as well as "Cold Water"…
Sigrid's "Mirror" Is a Self-Assured Disco Pop Smash
"I love who I see looking at me in the mirror." Not so fast, Olivia Rodrigo. While the sound at radio might be steadily shifting towards something that resembles an early '00s pop-punk revival (which is great in its own right), last year's wave of disco-inspired pandemic pop ushered in by the…