dance pop
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Despite not sticking the landing, Future Nostalgia is a significant leap forward from Dua Lipa’s so-so debut.
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Dedicated mostly sounds like a second helping of Emotion, which isn’t such a bad thing.
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Poppy and her collaborators have gotten a lot better at working her persona into her music and crafting creative pop songs since last year’s Poppy.Computer.
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Poppy’s debut album is a good collection of pop songs, but doesn’t quite live up to her unique Internet personality.
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On her sophomore album Melodrama, Lorde makes a few Top 40 concessions, but shows a ton of promise with the stylistic and formal risks she does take.
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Witness finds Katy Perry heading in exciting new sonic and lyrical directions, but is sometimes held back by Katy indulging in safer, staler sounds and her usual cliches.
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Poppy has done the Poppiest thing imaginable and created a love song for her computer, and of course there’s a video attached to it that has that Poppy aesthetic. We’ve reached peak levels of Poppy, people. I love it.
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Ed Sheeran: The motivational poster of singer-songwriters.
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Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman goes full-on pop with his follow-up to 2012’s I Know What Love Isn’t.
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Jens Lekman‘s latest single is more anxiety-wrought than its upbeat dance pop instrumental first suggests. His new album Life Will See You Now drops this Friday via Secretly Canadian.
