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First Stream: Demi Lovato, Olivia Rodrigo, BTS | Billboard
Billboard's First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday's most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
This week, Demi Lovato starts over in impressive fashion, Olivia Rodrigo drops a sequel worthy of its predecessor, and BTS fully dive into their balladry. Check out all of this week's First Stream picks below:
When your debut single rockets to the top of the Hot 100 chart and stays there for eight straight weeks, chances are that anticipation for your follow-up single will be high. After conquering the pop world with "Drivers License," Olivia Rodrigo has returned with "Deja Vu" and summarily handled the pressure: the new track once again wears the influences of Lorde and Taylor Swift on its sleeve (the former in the verse harmonies, the latter in the bridge), but Rodrigo once again commits to the post-breakup wholeheartedly, jamming in lyrical details and vocal flourishes with the ease of a natural pop star.
This touching BTS ballad -- a collaboration with Iyori Shimizu -- comes from their new Japanese-language album BTS, The Best , as well as from the upcoming Japanese film Signal: Long-Term Unsolved Case Investigation Team . And like many of the K-pop superstars' tracks that aren't necessarily radio singles, "Film Out" takes sonic risks that underscore their multi-faceted appeal, from RM's emotional rap verse to the post-chorus sing-along.
Destined 2 Win has a lot riding on it for Bronx rapper Lil Tjay: after all, his 2019 debut True 2 Myself made him an intriguing new voice in hip-hop, while his new project was preceded by "Calling My Phone," a collaboration with 6lack that became his biggest Hot 100 hit to date. Although Destined 2 Win boasts its fair share of guest stars -- "Run It Up" with Offset and Moneybagg Yo is a scorching summit of talent -- the album often hums along most efficiently when Lil Tjay tells his history with plenty of room to spare.
In the same week that another Ozuna collaboration -- "Vaina Loca," his 2018 team-up with Manuel Turizo -- crosses the 1 billion views mark on YouTube, the reggaeton superstar has dropped another joint single that sets up its guest star for success. This time the beneficiary is Cuba native Ovi, who slings his own melodic bars to match Ozuna's as the pair gleefully chops it up (literally -- the "Envidioso" video finds Ozuna and Ovi playing dance-happy chefs).
In a press statement, Garbage leader Shirley Manson says that the alt-rock greats' upcoming seventh album "was our way of trying to make sense of how f--king nuts the world is and the astounding chaos we find ourselves in." Lead single "The Men Who Rule The World" pulls no punches when it comes to challenging capitalism and the ruin it so often brings -- and Manson sounds reinvigorated while doing so, whether she's whisper-chanting "money money money" or declaring "Destroy the violator!"
Olivia Rodrigo Drops New Single 'Deju Vu' and Music Video | Billboard News | Billboard
Will Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" Be on Bridgerton? | POPSUGAR Entertainment
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Is Olivia Rodrigo's 'Deja Vu' About Joshua Bassett, Sabrina Carpenter?
Olivia Rodrigo is at it again! Three months after making headlines for seemingly writing "Drivers License" about her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series costar J oshua Bassett , fans are convinced she's continuing the narrative with her new single, "Deja Vu."
"And you're probably with that blonde girl / Who always made me doubt / She's so much older than me / She's everything I'm insecure about," she sings in the track about the 21-year-old former Girl Meets World star.
"I totally understand people's curiosity with the specifics of who the song's about and what it's about, but to me, that's really the least important part of the song," Rodrigo told Billboard in January as the Carpenter chatter made headlines. "It's resonating with people because of how emotional it is, and I think everything else is not important."
"So when you gonna tell her / That we did that too? She thinks it's special / But it's all re-used," the lyrics read. "That was our place, I found it first / I made the jokes you tell to her / When she's with you."
L'Rain, Olivia Rodrigo, and More: This Week's Pitchfork Selects Playlist | Pitchfork
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we're sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you'd gladly send to a friend.
Demi Lovato, Olivia Rodrigo, BTS, Snoop Dogg: New music Friday songs
A handful of singles by established and up-and-coming artists ranging from Snoop Dogg to BTS to Olivia Rodrigo – singing about everything from breakups to partying – add to Friday's newest tracks. We've rounded up some of the biggest new music releases this week:
The song that steals the show is "Easy," featuring Noah Cyrus. Other notable collaborations include the Ariana Grande -assisted "Met Him Last Night" and "My Girlfriends are My Boyfriends" featuring hip-hop sensation Saweetie .
Lovato revealed to SiriusXM's "The Morning MashUp" that Grande originally wrote "Met Him Last Night" with Lovato in mind and wanted to stay on the track but as a "mystery, harmony lady," though Lovato was having none of it.
"I was like 'I feel like the world would love to hear us together, like we should do that,' " Lovato recalled of her conversation with Grande. "She's so talented. And I'm so grateful to have a friend like her."
Snoop Dogg is back with the song "Roaches in my Ashtray," a single from his forthcoming album, "From Tha Streets 2 That Suites," which is predictably out April 20.
"Roaches" features and was produced by fellow Cali artist ProHoeZak. Snoop raps on the laid-back, West Coast beat about hanging with his friends but making sure no one messes with his marijuana.
The song drops on the heels of NBC's announcement that Snoop will serve as a mentor for "The Voice" this season.
The Australian-born artist dropped two new tracks: "Brazil" and "Sip It," the latter featuring rapper Tyga.
Both singles, her first since last August's "Dance Like Nobody's Watching," are her latest to be released independently. In 2018 Azalea parted ways with Island Records and eventually started her own label, Bad Dreams Records. She partnered with San Francisco-based Empire (Adam Lambert, Robin Thicke, T-Pain) for distribution.
Olivia Rodrigo's Hit 'Drivers License' Has the Best Part of a Song - The New York
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So, every year, you and I start having a conversation sometime around March or April about what we think the song of the summer is going to be. Like, what's the song of the summer? And I just want to preempt that conversation right now by just skipping ahead to December and saying, I think we have a song of the year.
(SINGING) I got my driver's license last week, just like we always talked about, because you were so excited for me to finally drive up to your house.
OK, first of all, it debuted at number one on the Hot 100 at the beginning of January, and it stayed there for months. She's held off Ariana Grande. She's held off Cardi B. So Olivia Rodrigo herself — 18 years old, Disney star. She's been on a couple of Disney Channel shows. This is her first song, at least that I've ever heard by her. And it's, I would say, the first song to capture the United States's collective imagination since "WAP."
Yeah. I had not heard of this song, Wesley, until you brought it up to me. I still remain in awe in Rihanna's America that you can have a number one song that is huge in all these ways and has captured the imagination of some people in this country and totally eluded the awareness of others. I mean, my pipeline to pop culture, my 24-year-old niece had not heard of this song.
And yet, you're right. It's huge, it's everywhere. And I had to Google all of this because I was just like, who is this person? I don't like feeling like there are some huge pop cultural phenomena that I don't know about. So I went on a deep dive. So the tea is piping hot, and I think this is why the song is so popular, in some ways, that has eluded others, right?
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