Last year, Demi Lovato tried and failed to make her pandering ode to seasonal same-sex flings the song of the summer. This year, she’s back with “Body Say,” a tracks she wrote and recorded “a couple weeks ago.”
Panda. Panda. Panda. By this time in the summer, most of the seasonal hits are a foregone conclusion, so we can all bank our beach bods on hearing Desiigner, Drake, Rihanna and, unfortunately, “Toothbrush” fifty-eleven times before we have to pack away our bikinis.
Gigi Hadid, model/reality star/friend of Swift, adds a second entry to her video-girl roster; after posing as “Bad Blood”’s Slay-Z, she now stars in Taylor Swift’s manfriend Calvin Harris’s “How Deep Is Your Love,” an utterly effervescent vocal house banger. Of course, there are dolphins.
If they were a celebrity couple: “Tastley”? “Rwift”? The mind boggles. Ponder all that and more in this “Blank Space” tropical remix by Brazilian DJ Luckas, which shifts down Swift’s vocals into a register reminiscent of the Rickster on beach holiday ca. 1989, a glorious year.
Diplo and Skrillex are having a banger summer, both individually (Major Lazer’s “Lean On”; Skrillex and Katie Couric’s “Untitled”) and together as Jack Ü. “Where Are Ü Now,” their chart-topping dance jam with Biebs, rides on the strength of Biebs’ lithe falsetto and a melancholy squiggle of synths; in the new video,…
LuAnn de Lesseps, peevish High Matron of the Real Housewives of New York franchise, finally premiered her long-awaited third single, “Girl Code (Don’t Be So Uncool),” on Watch What Happens Live.
At the time of this writing, Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” is holding strong as the second most popular song in the country, having been on the Billboard Hot 100 for the past 17 weeks straight. There is little doubt that once summer hits in full force and more radio stations add it to rotation, it will supplant Wiz…
No, no, not Kristen Stewart, guys—KStewart, otherwise known as Kate Stewart, a UK artist so brand-new that she’s never even played a show (if you’re in London, her first one is May 21st) but whose debut single is such a groovy little party jam that I’ve been playing it every morning for two weeks. She’s got Ariana…
