Yeah, why not: Drake, “What Next”: Here’s some new music from Drake, who would like you to know that he has returned from taking some Drake-time. Per the chorus, he rested over the summer, stretched on New Year’s Day, fucked on Valentine’s Day, and is now here to tell us that he’s back and we should be ready for something. Overall, the song is largely fine? It sounds like Drake circa his most Drake era, which for me, is roughly 2012-2013, and because of that, the song sounds dated. This isn’t Drake’s fault, though, it’s TikTok’s fault, which exists in some sort of nightmarish conversation with modern music so that I cannot hear a new song (Cardi B’s “Up” springs to mind, as does anything that Da Baby does), without thinking immediately about how it will be repeated ad nauseam on TikTok. “What Next” is off a 3-song EP, “Scary Hours 2,” which is also just regular Drake being Drake, but if he’s making new music now, then I’ll take it! A post-panny hot girl, orgy-filled summer of freaking on strangers and cautiously licking each other’s faces as a greeting beckons. If “What Next” is the warm-up for Drake producing a banger on the levels of “Nice For What,” then I will take! It! —Megan Reynolds
Absolutely, hell yes: Molly Lambert and Elle King, “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” – No ‘80s music video parody has ever looked as goddamn cool as Molly Lambert and Elle King’s “Drunk,” and that’s saying something—one of them is Rob Schneider’s kid, a man with no edge. Who doesn’t love a country pop-rock hit about a night out? Crush me with this chorus; it’s ascending Lumineers-esq. harmonies, its syncopated percussion. This is rural road, long drive music. —Maria Sherman
Eh: Jack Harlow ft.EST Gee, “Route 66″ (music video) – Very famous 20-something Jack Harlow heads back home to Louisville for “Route 66,” and I’m unfortunately coming to the realization that… he might have bars beyond the clippable moments that proliferate on TikTok. If you need me, I’ll be repeating “Bitch I’m from Kentucky but this ain’t no fuckin’ Dixie Chicks,” to myself, wondering why his laid-back, lethargic, party boy rap resonates. I suppose each generation gets the Asher Roth it deserves. Eh. —MS
Absolutely, hell yes: Molly Lambert and Elle King, “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” – No ‘80s music video parody has ever looked as goddamn cool as Molly Lambert and Elle King’s “Drunk,” and that’s saying something—one of them is Rob Schneider’s kid, a man with no edge. Who doesn’t love a country pop-rock hit about a night out? Crush me with this chorus; it’s ascending Lumineers-esq. harmonies, its syncopated percussion. This is rural road, long drive music. —Maria Sherman
Eh: Jack Harlow ft.EST Gee, “Route 66″ (music video) – Very famous 20-something Jack Harlow heads back home to Louisville for “Route 66,” and I’m unfortunately coming to the realization that… he might have bars beyond the clippable moments that proliferate on TikTok. If you need me, I’ll be repeating “Bitch I’m from Kentucky but this ain’t no fuckin’ Dixie Chicks,” to myself, wondering why his laid-back, lethargic, party boy rap resonates. I suppose each generation gets the Asher Roth it deserves. Eh. —MS