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New Music Friday: Lady Gaga makes an understated comeback

  • February 28, 2020
  • Peter Robinson

Notes on this week's new releases:

  • Lady Gaga releases her turbo-charged anti­bal­lad Stupid Love today and everyone on Twitter's doing a decent job of pre­tend­ing they didn't open their Christmas presents early. As pre­vi­ously stated: decent song by decent popstar. She shot the video on a phone.
  • Charlotte OC's going The Full Stevie on Freedom and there's nothing wrong with a bit of that.
  • Good new one from superstar-in-the-making Evie Irie, well done everybody.
  • Camden Cox's turn on the new Joe Stone one: perky.
  • Daisy Gray's Don't Cry is pretty special. There was an inter­est­ing post on her Instagram when her version of Wicked Game was featured on Love Island: she wrote that in 48 hours the exposure led to "25,000 Shazam streams, 400 purchases, and 9000 plays on Spotify". So if you're wondering about the direct impact of a Love Island sync, that's it.
  • John Newman's Brother's Eurovision song is the best UK entry in a while and comes in at just 2:35 — they could have probably got it down to 2:30 without the gimmicky gaps before every 'breath' which sound a bit like that thing you sometimes have to do when you're in the middle of a sentence, feel a burp coming and have to swallow it before you carry on talking.
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    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
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    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
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    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
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    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
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