The 12-minute track captivates listeners with Kendrick's elusive style, exploring life amid personal crisis through intricate storytelling and deeply personal delivery.
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“Arm’s Length,” track 20 on the deluxe edition of Deeper Well, perpetuates Musgraves’ airy, angelic voice found on the album’s original tracklist. However, the breathiness in her vocal delivery is not a result of her newfound feeling of freedom, but of an agonizing yearning for a lost love.
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Megan Thee Stallion’s recent two singles create a satisfying duology: With “Cobra,” thee Stallion of rap reflects on her past pain before using that very anguish in follow-up “Hiss” to warn those praying on her downfall that, through the hurt, she is back and ready to not only kick ass but take names.
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On Good Riddance, Gracie Abrams explores the agony of devastating heartbreak one piano note at a time. Ending on a hopeful note, the outro “Right now” slowly embraces the positive outcomes of moving out, moving on, and blossoming into who you were meant to be.
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If Surrender had Maggie Rogers in "Overdrive,” "Don't Forget Me" sees her on a lazy road trip through the countryside. After years of wanting anything and everything, Rogers has finally found a sweet, serene, simplistic reality in a world of inauthenticity.
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Whether it's Natasha Bedingfield telling listeners to “feel the rain on your skin” or Katy Perry commanding audiences to “Roar,” inspirational anthems consistently amass popularity. With “What I Want,” alternative pop trio MUNA offers a new take on the inspirational anthem – one that might end up ruining lives.
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With an imperial cyborg and criticisms of how we treat the planet, “Am I in Heaven?” is a perfect introduction to the “Gizzverse” and highlights the fun that musicians can have singing about the world around them.
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“Bartender” goes rather critically and commercially unnoticed as the 12th song on Del Rey’s 6th album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, and ironically that might be exactly what the indie darling intended with this piano-backed plea for serenity and normalcy.
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“The Hunger” showcases The Distillers’ frontwoman fanning the flames of loss as she teeters on the precipice of moving on.
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In a flurry of solo-dancing and groovy musicality, Miley Cyrus takes back a song that once belonged to her former marriage and confidently admits that self-love conquers all in her single “Flowers.”
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We put in twice the emotional labor for every bit of physical labor we do, all to get brushed aside by the men in our lives. This Women’s History Month brings with it a feminist power ballad that perfectly encapsulates the rage of us, our mothers, our grandmothers, and generations beyond.
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“The Bug Collector” is an agonizing display of what it means to love someone for everything they are. Heynderickx holds a mirror up to her listeners and forces them to realize how they value their loved ones.
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As a haunting beginning to the titular album Historian, Lucy Dacus details a cutting end to a tumultuous relationship, leaving listeners with a chilling reminder of their own tragic loves.
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The pop-rock band drew inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” with recurring themes of the freethinking movement, love, peace, drugs, and even education – each are cleverly displayed in the riddle-like lyricism.
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