The Singles Jukebox
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Pop, to two decimal places
We check out Kacey Musgraves's new single "Mexico Honey". Sound of the summer? thesinglesjukebox.com/kacey-musgra...
Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey – The Singles Jukebox
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The Singles Jukebox@singlesjukebox.bsky.social · yesterdayKelela and PinkPantheress team up for "The Bridge"! Response is... well, more than one of us uses the word 'muted' thesinglesjukebox.com/kelela-ft-pi...
Kelela and PinkPantheress team up for "The Bridge"! Response is... well, more than one of us uses the word 'muted' thesinglesjukebox.com/kelela-ft-pi...
Kelela ft. PinkPantheress – The Bridge – The Singles Jukebox
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The Singles Jukebox@singlesjukebox.bsky.social · yesterdayLike much of Europe feels like it is at the moment, Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté are Movin’ to the Sun: thesinglesjukebox.com/hugel-imael-...
Like much of Europe feels like it is at the moment, Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté are Movin’ to the Sun: thesinglesjukebox.com/hugel-imael-...
Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté – Movin’ to the Sun – The Singles Jukebox
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The Singles Jukebox@singlesjukebox.bsky.social · 2d ago15 more group reviews of new songs coming up this week on the Jukebox, starting with another Olivia Rodrigo single we enjoy: thesinglesjukebox.com/olivia-rodri...
15 more group reviews of new songs coming up this week on the Jukebox, starting with another Olivia Rodrigo single we enjoy: thesinglesjukebox.com/olivia-rodri...
Olivia Rodrigo – Stupid Song – The Singles Jukebox
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This month's best @singlesjukebox.bsky.social releas: MNEK's "REVERSE!," in which he cruises a guy who ain't never been about the booty, but the booty go berzerk." Also reviewed: Phoebe Bridgers, Steve Lacy, etc. wp.me/pzXeC-luY
The Singles Jukebox: July 2026
The weakest crop of singles this year to date, July’s haul boasts one club classic. MNEK, eyeing a straight but willing boy at the club, tells us that while this kid ain’t never been ab…
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Switzerland vs Colombia kicks off in ten minutes - here is our review of Shakira & Burna Boy's "Dai Dai" thesinglesjukebox.com/shakira-burn...
Shakira & Burna Boy – Dai Dai – The Singles Jukebox
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I contributed to the @singlesjukebox.bsky.social post on the song that has got the biggest "how did this become a hit??" reaction from me this year
![Iain Mew: Sometimes, when a singer is really baring their emotions, there is a moment when their voice breaks and they depart from the melody. It’s often a highlight of the song. Alyssa Grace noticed this, and had a thought: with such a powerful technique available, why only use it once or twice? Why not put it into every single line, until any melody is pretty much theoretical, exponentially enhancing the emotional force of the song? The result made for the most viscerally unpleasant first listen of any song in the UK top 40 this year, but it’s at least kind of fascinating. “Bloodstream” is maybe the most hyperpop song anyone has played with mostly just an acoustic guitar.
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The Singles Jukebox@singlesjukebox.bsky.social · 4w agoturning a big dial taht says “Quirk” on it - we meet new hit singer-songwriter Alyssa Grace thesinglesjukebox.com/alyssa-grace...
"She shows why a thousand imitators can’t write a Phoebe Bridgers song quite like her", "there’s a fine line between winking at an audience and condescending to them", "it helps that she created a killer chorus" - we have a lot of thoughts on "Lost Boys": thesinglesjukebox.com/phoebe-bridg...
Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys – The Singles Jukebox
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Reviews of 15 more new singles coming your way this week! We start, once again, with Taylor Swift thesinglesjukebox.com/taylor-swift...
Taylor Swift – I Knew It, I Knew You – The Singles Jukebox
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This is pretty good, would have been an 8/10 from me, would like to hear Alyssa cover ‘Get Me’ by Dinosaur Jr!
turning a big dial taht says “Quirk” on it - we meet new hit singer-songwriter Alyssa Grace thesinglesjukebox.com/alyssa-grace...
Alyssa Grace – Bloodstream – The Singles Jukebox
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"She shows why a thousand imitators can’t write a Phoebe Bridgers song quite like her", "there’s a fine line between winking at an audience and condescending to them", "it helps that she created a killer chorus" - we have a lot of thoughts on "Lost Boys": thesinglesjukebox.com/phoebe-bridg...
Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys – The Singles Jukebox
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Reviews of 15 more new singles coming your way this week! We start, once again, with Taylor Swift thesinglesjukebox.com/taylor-swift...
Taylor Swift – I Knew It, I Knew You – The Singles Jukebox
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I wrote about a few songs for @singlesjukebox.bsky.social this week and my favourite was Illit's "It's Me" thesinglesjukebox.com/illit-its-me/
![Iain Mew: “It’s Me” is to “Gnarly” what “Magnetic” was to “Super Shy”: the influence of the big hit is unmistakeable, but the Illit song gives enough of their own spin to have its own appeal. In this case that means keeping the wild, jerky urgency (and harsh percussive riff) of “Gnarly” while refixing its repetition from abrasive to cheekily self-aggrandising. It also means giving the verses a sweet, emotional twist through sticking a couple of snatches of Robert Miles’s “Children” behind them, in a delicate way that’s more PinkPantheress than David Guetta. That works so phenomenally well it feels like a melodic cheat code.
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i liked this far more than i had any business liking this. i am a sucker for strings only when they do atonal bullshit
The Singles Jukebox@singlesjukebox.bsky.social · 3mo agoLaufey's Madwoman video made a splash, we check out the song (and some of us the video too): thesinglesjukebox.com/laufey-madwo...
At @singlesjukebox.bsky.social we reviewed Madonna and the Gaga-Doechii collab in the same week. A few stray thoughts. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/t...
The Singles Jukebox: May 2026
By a trick of timing “Runway” and “I Feel So Free” presented themselves for review this week. The entertaining if sad Prada sequel drops “Vogue” and the Gaga-Doe…
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i have penned my Angine de Poitrine thesis. they're embarassing and goofy and indulgent and that's why they are popular and good
The Singles Jukebox@singlesjukebox.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Kind of embarrassing", "ugly, gnarled and jagged", "gimmicky", "novelty" - we really like Angine de Poitrine: thesinglesjukebox.com/angine-de-po...
Our last post of the week is on Olivia Rodrigo's new single, and we love it enough for almost as high a score as Angine de Poitrine: thesinglesjukebox.com/olivia-rodri...
Olivia Rodrigo – Drop Dead – The Singles Jukebox
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We review Dexter and the Moonrocks and their big pop hit: thesinglesjukebox.com/dexter-and-t...
Dexter and the Moonrocks – Freakin’ Out – The Singles Jukebox
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"Kind of embarrassing", "ugly, gnarled and jagged", "gimmicky", "novelty" - we really like Angine de Poitrine: thesinglesjukebox.com/angine-de-po...
Angine de Poitrine – Fabienk – The Singles Jukebox
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We are very happy with Diamond Platnumz: thesinglesjukebox.com/diamond-plat...
Diamond Platnumz – Happy – The Singles Jukebox
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We review Katseye's latest hit, have some thoughts on product placement, and @ismathers.bsky.social is looking forward to “The Triumph of Boshing Over Signification in the Music of Katseye”: thesinglesjukebox.com/katseye-pink...
Katseye – Pinky Up – The Singles Jukebox
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We review Lady Gaga & Doechii's "Runway" (cast listed in order of appearance): thesinglesjukebox.com/lady-gaga-do...
Lady Gaga & Doechii – Runway – The Singles Jukebox
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Laufey's Madwoman video made a splash, we check out the song (and some of us the video too): thesinglesjukebox.com/laufey-madwo...
Laufey – Madwoman – The Singles Jukebox
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We review the second single from Tyla's upcoming album - is it A* pop? thesinglesjukebox.com/tyla-ft-zara...
Tyla ft. Zara Larsson – She Did It Again – The Singles Jukebox
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"If this was a Steve Lacy or Dominic Fike spec script, he’d be staffed on their next album immediately" - we review Malcolm Todd's "Earrings": thesinglesjukebox.com/malcolm-todd...
Malcolm Todd – Earrings – The Singles Jukebox
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Has society progressed past the need for OneRepublic? Is their new song a recession indicator? Has Ryan Tedder… always sounded like that? All questions on our mind: thesinglesjukebox.com/onerepublic-...
OneRepublic – Need Your Love – The Singles Jukebox
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![Iain Mew: It’s always nice when something in a music video perfectly illustrates a song. Here it’s the shot, mingling literal and figurative elements of the lyrics, which zooms out from Olivia Rodrigo’s face lit up by her laptop screen to reveal that she’s in Actual Versailles. “Drop Dead” as a song works as a series of zooms and reveals, from reality to fantasy to heightened-reality to fantasy-heightened-further-by-reality, all building with a sense of runaway emotional momentum that might even outdo “Vampire”. It’s driven by the power of possibility and by pivoting on moments of hope and uncertainty; when she sings “the most alive I’ve ever been/but kiss me and I might drop dead” it’s a play on words and there’s no actual contradiction there, but something in it still highlights the fragility of a dual emotional state that is going to be resolved one way or another. From there everything progresses to a guitar climax which is like Coldplay at their most obvious, and is glorious for it.
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