N: Madonna and Maluma, “Medellín” (video) – Aside from this song’s already offensive and not well (if at all) thought-out lyrics (“We built a cartel just for love,” etc.), these two and the team behind them both decided to dig deeper into the feces they laid out last week with these over-the-top, meaningless visuals. The video includes a disturbing, albeit brief, scene of Madonna licking Maluma’s big toe. It sadly can’t be unseen. To be fair, she starts off the video with a monologue/prayer that includes, “I will never be what society expects me to be.” Luckily for my blood pressure, I expected this shit. —Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo
Y: TWICE, “Fancy” – I can’t tell if the latest single from TWICE reminds me of late-’90s video game music, or the sort of ’00s Euro-pop that doesn’t play in clubs as much as it does in the queue for indoor rollercoasters at theme parks, but perhaps its both—“Fancy” certainly evokes the same sort of joy, and there’s a drop. A colleague likened the bass to ATC’s 2001 hit “All Around The World (La La La La La),” so I think we’re onto something… —Maria Sherman
Y: TWICE, “Fancy” – I can’t tell if the latest single from TWICE reminds me of late-’90s video game music, or the sort of ’00s Euro-pop that doesn’t play in clubs as much as it does in the queue for indoor rollercoasters at theme parks, but perhaps its both—“Fancy” certainly evokes the same sort of joy, and there’s a drop. A colleague likened the bass to ATC’s 2001 hit “All Around The World (La La La La La),” so I think we’re onto something… —Maria Sherman