Y: June is tickling our backs, which means summer song candidates will be jostling for chart position like crazy. Icona Pop’s “Emergency” and its drunken trumpet riffs kinda give me “Happy” vibes, which means I’ll hate it by, like, Monday. [Billboard]
N: Jason Derulo is only interesting in the sense that he’s so uninteresting. Most of his songs have that blank quality that makes them perfect pop radio filler. “Try Me,” featuring an expressionless J. Lo, is one. [Miss Info]
Y: Chance the Rapper laid a way too short fire verse about being “just a boy with a rock” over this dreamy drum beat that was originally the property of Hiatus Kaiyote. [Stereogum]
Y: You might catch me in the subway breakdancing to Disclosure’s “Holding On” (with Gregory Porter). Do not try to stop me. [Stereogum]
N: Jason Derulo is only interesting in the sense that he’s so uninteresting. Most of his songs have that blank quality that makes them perfect pop radio filler. “Try Me,” featuring an expressionless J. Lo, is one. [Miss Info]