Getting Lost in BT's 'Art of Longing'
We don't often stan men 'round these parts - certainly not straight men - but BT is one of the rare good ones. The trance pioneer has paved a truly unique path in the electronic world, pushing the boundaries of the genre with his complex, imaginative compositions over the years and dabbling in all…
Minelli & Inna's 'Discoteka': A Song of the Summer in a Parallel Universe
Before this year, a bilingual club banger from two Romanian pop goddesses about dancing like in Jamaica and being the life of the party wouldn’t sound nearly so at odds with the current cultural mood. But at a time where (some of us, at least) are socially distancing for the next…um,…
'Midnight Sky': Miley Cyrus Was Born to Run
"I don't need to be loved by you." She was coming...until she wasn't. Miley Cyrus is just rolling with the punches like the rest of us: that includes her Malibu home burning down in the California fires, a highly publicized divorce with Liam Hemsworth, an equally highly publicized, fleeting…
'my future': Billie Eilish Opts for Optimism in Dark Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm9Zf1WYQ_A Billie Eilish is doing pretty okay, all things considered. This whole pandemic thing, and the general sense that the fabric of society is just barely hanging on by a thread through, like, Zoom calls? Not great! But instead of (justifiably) succumbing to…
Melanie C's Got a New Album & Going 'In & Out of Love'
You know what? Melanie Jayne Chisholm hasn't missed a beat with this new era. If you've not been following along for the ride thus far (the Spice Bus must have missed you at your stop), the recording artist occasionally also known to us as Sporty Spice high-kicked her latest solo campaign into gear…
'Say Something': Kylie Dreams of a Less Socially Distant Future
"Love is love, it never ends...can we all be as one again?" Kylie Minogue didn't have to return to us this soon after the release of her 2018 record Golden and accompanying tour through 2019 - and she certainly didn't have to come back in the middle of a pandemic. After all, even if our disco…
Lennon Stella's 'Pretty Boy': An Ode to the Ostensible Himbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWvxKqjKpKI Truthfully, not too many records released in 2020 have stuck with me for much longer than a few weeks after their release date, but Lennon Stella's debut studio album, Three. Two. One., certainly has. The album was released towards the end of April -…
Allie X's 'Super Duper Party People' Gets the Remix Treatment
No one is having much fun at all right now, and anything even remotely party-related feels taboo, but Allie X is doing her best to provide us with fond memories of less socially distanced activities. (Remember those?) After releasing another rock-solid set of gloomy, gorgeous pop cuts earlier in…
Lights Hits a 'Dead End' on the Dance Floor
Like Avril Lavigne, Carly Rae Jepsen and Canada's Drag Race contestant Jimbo, Lights Poxleitner-Bokan - or Lights, for short - is Canadian excellence. Haven't pensively stared out the window of a moving train on a chilly winter day while listening to "Siberia" on loop? Afraid to say it, but you…
'Natalie Don't': RAYE Provides a Perfect 'Jolene' for 2020
https://youtu.be/nzxEIgLlrlI Here's the thing about RAYE: she just does not miss. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: from her myriad dance floor collaborations over the past few years, like "Secrets" with DJ Regard, "You Don't Know Me" and "Tequila" with Jax Jones and "Stay (Don't Go…
'Pporappippam': Sunmi Delivers a Swoony Song for the Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7glC9Jp7Q Sunmi isn't just one of the top soloists in South Korea - she's essentially forged her own genre. Since the split of her long-running, history-making girl group, Wonder Girls, following the release of their incredible final album Reboot in 2015, Sunmi's…
Dannii Minogue Reimagines 'All I Wanna Do' for 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OWPwvfLvGE&feature=emb_title "All I wanna do, all I wanna do, all I wanna do is touch you..." Danielle Jane Minogue, Queen of Clubs™, is taking a look back - back to a time when everybody changed underwater, when we disremembered, and when we got everything we…