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Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x a) America: What Time Is Love? hasn't been com­mer­cially available for nearly three decades after The KLF threw a strop and deleted their entire catalogue. (The band have today put a handful of their hit records, including two Number Ones, on streaming services.)b) It's a very slightly different edit to the one that came out in 1992 and is therefore unques­tion­ably NEW.d) I think, very seriously, that all popstars could learn a thing or two from a band who responded to the challenge of remixing a hit for the US market by turning in a song in which they claimed to have arrived in America 500 years before Christopher Columbus. A policy of more ridicu­lous­ness wherever possible wouldn't harm pop in 2021.Fa La La (feat Boyz II Men) hitmaker Justin Bieber releases his best in a while; it comes with the best artwork of his career. Kylie and Dua 1have chucked out the Studio 2054 Real Groove thing.Raye's released some remixes; the Joel Corry reswizzle of Love Of Your Life is the best of the bunch.For the avoidance of doubt that's Minogue and Lipa↩Mae Muller's new one Dependent is the week's best new song — it sounds brilliant and has a great twist on the "treat me a like a lady" trope. Her new EP No One Else, Not Even You, is also out today. Commas in titles are generally to be avoided but this one works well. 8/10 for the comma. The only thing that could have made the Miley Cyrus and Stevie Nicks 'collab' any better is a "Stevie, can you handle this? Miley, can you handle this? It's the remix, can you handle this? I don't think you can't handle this woo" bit over the intro.Georgia Twinn's new song is a big moment in its own right but also lands halfway between second album Lana and first album Charli, which isn't a bad place to be is it?Hello and con­grat­u­la­tions to Little Mix, whose sixth studio album is released today. As a gentleman named Jon with a private Twitter account noted earlier this week, the last British girlgroup to pull this off was Sugababes in 2008, and by that point they were on their third lineup. Kylie's disco album, cleverly titled Disco, is out today. Last Chance is arguably the album's most on-brief song although I suppose disco means different things to different people. The extended version of the album shows up as Disco (Deluxe). Is Disco Deluxe a better album title than Disco? (Yes.)While we're praising longevity Shirley Bassey, the Queen of Q4, has released 70 albums across seven decades. Still no Bruce Hornsby col­lab­or­a­tions on the new one but she does cover I Made It Through The Rain, one of the most sen­sa­tional optim­ist­i­bangers of all time. After several years I've binned off one of the features of the Popjustice New Music Friday edit — the bit where I put a total stinker at the bottom of the playlist. Most weeks I'd find myself actively searching out something terrible and there's enough neg­at­iv­ity in the world without having to delib­er­ately look for new Jake Bugg releases. (Or acci­dent­ally hearing them if, like a lot of people, you listen to playlists on shuffle.)There are three songs of the week this week. The first is Royal The Serpent's Choke which despite being too short manages to pack Really Quite A Lot into 137 seconds. Royal The Serpent's Get A Grip EP is out today — it includes previous (v good) song Overwhelmed along with a slightly Dragonette-esque new track called Warn You. It's one of two excellent breathing-related songs this week because next up is……Demi Lovato's Commander In Chief. This had better be getting a full remix package. The third song of the week is a fairly old one — The Weeknd's In Your Eyes — which reappeared a few months back in a 10/10 Doja Cat-featuring fashion, and comes back again today with KENNY G chucked on top. Whenever an artist releases more than one remix of the same song there's always a glimmer of hope that further remixes might continue to appear every month or two until the end of human civil­isa­tion (currently pencilled in for May 8 2022). After an impress­ive start Lil Nas X dropped the ball with Old Town Road but could The Weeknd pull it off with In Your Eyes? Four words: Mariah. Version. For. Christmas. Annie's new album is out today and it is TERRIFIC.Spa is Icona Pop's best one in a while. They work rather well with Sofi Tukker, maybe they should just form a band and be done with it. There are too many bands as it is so a merger could make things a lot easier for all of us. The Kelly Rowland single is perky! Ava Max released a Christmas song this week and it is abso­lutely not on this week's playlist. I know people get away with all sorts at Christmas but come on.Baby Queen continues to be one of the pop sphere's best things: new devel­op­ments this week involve Pretty Girl Lie having a brilliant middle eight and some Matty Healy dancing in the video. A lot of artists have had a go at this song's subject matter but "I get more likes when I don't look like me" kind of nails it, right? The artwork for Shaylen's new release depicts the singer being attacked by but­ter­flies. (The song's great.)Bree Runway, whose Damn Daniel would, I think, have won last night's Twenty Quid Music Prize if Dua Lipa's Physical hadn't destroyed everything in its path, releases the Easyfun-produced Little Nokia. All things con­sidered Bree should be approx four times bigger than she is right now but things feel like they are heading in the right direction and in These Uncertain Times that's something to hold onto. There's a perky F9 remix of Annie's The Streets Where I Belong, a Being Boring-esque song about Annie's return to her hometown. Being Bergen, IF YOU WILL. The remix is amazing, the original's amazing, the album the original's on is amazing, everything's generally amazing in Annie world. Remember Jens, of Any Other Way almost-fame? Tough Love is his new song. No new Kygo atro­cit­ies this week although I did get a press release con­tain­ing the words "Tomorrow, Friday 25th, film star Vin Diesel will be releasing his debut dance music song 'Feel Like I Do' on Kygo's Palm Tree Records" and I was too scared to click any of the links in the email so I have no idea if it was a joke or not.(For some reason the shitting embed hasn't updated with the new playlist and if it hasn't sorted itself out by the time you see this you can click here to open Spotify.) Congratulations to Dua Lipa, whose single Physical was voted the best British pop single of 2020 tonight by a panel of (virtual) judges. Thanks to everyone who joined in with the voting this year, 2020's been a cavalcade of shit but nights like this make things mar­gin­ally less terrible. Seriously though the EHLE single is very brilliant. "I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker colour" — A LYRIC. There's something slightly Aloudian about the unhin­ged­ness of Finders Keepers, EHLE's fourth (fourth!!) excellent single of 2020.Gorgon City have released their best single in about a hundred years. Evan Giia has a good voice, right? Nicely done everyone. Sir Sly's Material Boy sounds like a lost MGMT track. Quite good.Hard to imagine the strange series of events that led to Maja Kristina covering The Pointer Sisters' Slow Hand, although there's a chance it might involve auto­com­plete and Niall Horan. Anyway: it's an extremely good track.Not sure if you noticed Koko's All Together Now earlier this year but it was a bit of a slowburn belter. Anyway they're back today with So Nice To Meet You, which inter­pol­ates Public Image Ltd's This Is Not A Love Song. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's covered Alcazar's Crying At The Discotheque. It is the best idea for a Sophie Ellis-Bextor cover since she had a go at Propaganda's Duel.You will note that the previous three songs each do something new with something old. You may be thinking: "I would like to hear a four new song that is also an old song." Well.Kygo's reign of terror continues, with Donna Summer the latest diva to be on the receiving end. Do you remember that amazing Firestone track he did with Conrad Sewell? They were different times weren't they? Simpler times. I didn't ever think I'd be nostalgic for the specific period in my life when Kygo did that amazing Firestone track with Conrad Sewell but here we are. Sometimes we don't really appre­ci­ate the beauty of a moment until it'd faded, do we? A lesson for us all there. UPDATE: Actually once you're over the shock this is quite good isn't it? OMG What's Happening is, whichever way you look at it, the quint­es­sen­tial 2020 song title. Is Ava Max, who currently stands at 33.5m monthly Spotify listeners, making her the world's 47th biggest act, the quint­es­sen­tial 2020 popstar? That's another con­ver­sa­tion for another day. Let's not do it now.Daniel Briskin, a very important (and decent) new popstar from north London, has released a new song that starts off as one thing and ends up as another thing. Both those things are good things.British chanteuse Blithe, of 'did a big interview with her a while back' fame, returns today with the v sparky If I Ain't The One. French singer 1 Marina Kaye releases her sparse and spooky new single Double Life today. As with previous single The Whole 9 (also highly listen­able) she made it with David Stewart and Jessica Agombar, two song­writers who've appeared on Popjustice in the past in slightly different roles and are having a bit of a Moment right now, having recently knocked out Dynamite for BTS and that quite good Jonas Brothers single. Marina says this song was partly inspired by the writing session's proximity to the Jack The Ripper museum. (???)The new Oz one, Murder, hits a mark somewhere between Lana and Sia, but also sounds like nothing else I heard while scouring hundreds of songs for this week's playlist, and it's really quite brilliant.Next time someone on Twitter is wanging on about "where are all the modern protest songs???etc", point them to #freebrit­ney by Holy Spearit. Anna Straker's one of the artists I spoke to in that marathon Zoom session during lockdown. Seems a long time ago now, doesn't it? All that madness? Anyway she's got a new track with Gabrielle 'Prior To Them Closing Their Last Branch In 2008 I Used To Buy My Batteries At M' Aplin, and very enjoyable it is too. Navvy's The Final Pieces EP is out today and it's not quite all the feels but it's the vast majority of them.In 'egregious noughties anthem inter­pol­a­tion' news, hit play on the Sigala and James Arthur song and I guarantee that within one second you'll be screaming "SIGALA AND JAMES ARTHUR WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" A truly extraordin­ary piece of music. Look, I generally try to keep the New Music Friday playlist pretty short each week because we're all busy people so it is with deep dismay that I must report this week's playlist contains 34 decent songs.Griff's one of the better new popstars, isn't she? Say It Again's her best release to date. It's a semi-busy week for Babeheaven who release what we used to call a double a‑side single featuring new songs Cassette Beat and Human Nature, both of which are very enjoyable. Ava Max has released an Ace Of Base-inspired single, while modern pop's premiere Ace Of Base apo­lo­gists Clean Bandit have released an unex­pec­ted and, frankly, unre­ques­ted mashup of Real Love and DARIO G'S SUNCHYME. (I first noticed the mashup in one of the band's live lockdown DJ sets, has it been part of the Bandit 'oeuvre' for a while?)Amy Allen, whose song­writ­ing you've already been enjoying via artists like Harry Styles and Halsey, has an accept­ably 90s-sounding single out today. Bastille's excellent new one is Song 4 on the playlist and when you hear it you may well agree that's two spots too low.Curtis Waters isn't messing around is he?Brighton-based singer of song Oz has a really impress­ive EP on its way and the first glimpse of that is out today: its called Money.The new Vamps single is good, mind you that was pretty inev­it­able con­sid­er­ing it was produced by Lostboy.Seriously there are so many decent songs out this week.(Please make some time to listen to the great E^ST album.)Yorke released her debut EP in March and it seems she's been using her lockdown wisely: Gravity is a huge leap forward and sounds like Ellie Goulding doing 1989-era Taylor Swift, ie totally ideal. SO MANY DECENT SONGS. It'll take more than a stupid pandemic, an impending global recession and the decim­a­tion of music journ­al­ism to stand in the way of amazing pop music being recog­nised. Today Popjustice unveils the twelve short­l­is­ted songs in the 2020 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Info on the twelve short­l­is­ted songs, details regarding judging (likely to be even more of a shambles than usual given that it might happen on Zoom) and how to get involved, and playlists for every year since 2003, at www.popjustice.com/twentyquidmusicprize. My proposed morator­ium on 'tears on the dancefloor'-themed pop songs didn't really pan out very well and the new NOTD and Nina Nesbitt song also ref­er­ences another topic on the Popjustice banned list — wearing your ex's old t‑shirt — but Cry Dancing is a great tune. "It's not my heart that's breaking, it's just these shoes are killing me" — WHAT A LINE. ALSO A LINE: "This house is on fire, woo." That's a line you'll find in the new Troye single.Jesus bloody Christ the Joan album is shaping up to be a complete monster. Resin Moon — real name Dave — has released a really beautiful new single called The Middle. It's his second release of 2020; the other is the Covid-themed 'jam' Shake Your Booty (At An Appropriate Social Distance).The Calvin Harris Love Regenerator Experiment comes to fruition today with the Steve Lacy col­lab­or­a­tion Live Without Your Love. Kygo has Done A Kygo on Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It. It's brilliant but it's also terrible, with an abso­lutely atrocious and bor­der­line criminal key change, but I'm excited to hear what 2021's big summer Kygo-slash-diva col­lab­or­a­tion will be. (Spoiler: it will be Diana Ross.)Annie's really incred­ible new album — produced in its entirety by The Sound Of Arrows' Stefan Storm — continues its rollout this week with The Bomb.There is one song on this week's playlist which is extremely good but seems to have been written by someone who's never actually met a member of the opposite sex and may well have based their entire under­stand­ing of rela­tion­ships on what they've heard in pop songs. Not a bad way to go through life 'tbh'. Regrettably, Spinnin' have decided to release a cover of Kesha's TiK ToK. Welcome to Popjustice, a glorified pop blog celebrating 21st Century Pop, the people who make it, and the people who make the people who make it. More Close this module Email! It's like social media, but worse.How about emails from Popjustice?(Don't worry, they don't get sent very often.)Your email[email protected]Get PJ emailsForm is being submitted, please wait a bit.Accept the standard GDPR stuff in PJ's privacy policy

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