A bunch of grade-A pop music that didn’t get enough love last year, listed alphabetically by artist.
Adam Lambert, "The Original High"
Adam Lambert ditches glam-rock for the dance-floor on the propulsive club-ready track, "The Original High."
Recommended if you like: that moment of anticipation before the beat drops, powerhouse vocalists, letting loose on the middle of the dancefloor
Freddy Main / Warner Bros Records
Allie X, "Never Enough"
Making sense of Allie X sometimes requires thinking of her as two separate artists: an aloof, high-impact visual artist and a warm, understated pop singer. She’s good at both things, but there’s frequently a disconnect between her music and the whole Gaga-esque fashion-as-ideology thing. There's nothing particularly weird or flashy about "Never Enough," but there doesn't need to be — it's just a solid pop tune about a crumbling relationship and that's more than enough.
Recommended if you like: Ellie Goulding, the word "aesthetic," icy synths
Logan White / BB Gun Press
Bibi Bourelly, "Riot"
Bibi Bourelly’s “Riot” is a ferocious girl-and-her-guitar anthem that sounds kind of like an unplugged Rihanna tune: fierce, unapologetic, and full of attitude. Which is appropriate because the 21-year-old Berlin-born songwriter helped pen the Bad Gal’s “Bitch Better Have My Money.”
Recommended if you like: smoke-filled voices, acoustic sets, clapping back
Bibi Bourelly
Black Coast, "Enough (ft. M. Maggie)"
Dating anxiety sounds downright appealing on "Enough," a buoyant song about relationship worries from up-and-coming producer Black Coast and Brooklyn-based singer M. Maggie.
Recommended if you like: indulging your insecurities, getting up early to watch the sun rise, sugary synths
Chase Cabral / M. Maggie
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