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Kelly Rowland – Talk a good game

Kelly Rowland had moderate early success as a solo artist, but her releases seemed reactive to the climate of contemporary R&B — like she was either struggling to find her own voice, or was stifled by the industry. On the track list, the ballad “Down on Love” comes before “Dirty[…]

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Sia – This is Acting

Sia’s songs update the grandiose Eighties lite-rock ballad tradition of Diane Warren and Phil Collins for our moodier era of R&B-inscribed feminism, delivering lyrics about strain, perseverance and redemption over tracks that build from tensely foreboding verse to a titanic cathartic chorus. She’s mastered the formula so well that she’s[…]

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Meghan Trainor – Title

Trainor’s first major-label record puts her to a more rigorous test. It is the result of 21-year-old Trainor’s epiphany after reaching an understanding with Nashville writer-producer Kevin Kadish, who is twice her age. The four-song EP from September shares the meta-title Title. He had apparently been nurturing the idea of[…]

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Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience

In The 20/20 Experience, Timberlake deftly blends pop, soul, and R&B from the past 40 years into a string of epic seven-minute songs that brazenly celebrate the pleasures of love and music. More cautious and ambitious than his debut album Justified, and more coherent than FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006), the record mashes[…]

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Doja Cat – Hot Pink

Doja Cat Releases Album titled “Hot Pink” Fans of “Amala” are aware that Doja Cat doesn’t hesitate to sing about her desires or having sex. (See: “Go To Town,” the song about cunninlingus that opens “Amala.”). The songs on “Amala” definitely make references to Doja Cat’s sexual life, but they[…]

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Megan Thee Stallion – Good News

On her most recent album Good News, Megan shifts her focus to more urgent issues following some harsh record-straightening on “Shots Fired” over the same sample Biggie allegedly used in his Tupac taunt “Who Shot Ya?” and more nebulous grievance-airing (fake friends and bothersome men) over the New Orleans bounce[…]

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Tyla Debuts on ‘Jimmy Fallon’ in the US

South African hitmaker Tyla makes waves stateside, performing “Water” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Tyla, a rising talent from South Africa, is sweeping the music world. On October 21st, her genre-bending smash song “Water,” which skillfully combines Pop, R&B, Afrobeats, and Amapiano, reached the top of Billboard’s U.S.[…]

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