So this week's New Music Friday saw new music from Selena Gomez teaming up with another EDM producer, Pitbull gets Fifth Harmony on board and Aussie rockers The Rubens return with a new single.
Song: Wolves.
Artists: Selena Gomez, Marshmello
It's not been a great year for Selena Gomez, sure she had success with "It Ain't Me" but it was more Kygo's song than hers and her two solo singles "Bad Liar" and "Fetish" performed badly on the charts so it's back to EDM producers she goes and this time she's teamed up with Marshmello for a song called "Wolves" and while on Twitter, I did say that I was bemused by some of the lyrics in the song after all wolves don't live in jungles but it's the second best thing Selena has done all year musically after the collaboration with Kygo, maybe this could well be a hit, it's okay I guess.
Rating: 6/10
Song: Por Favor
Artists: Pitbull, Fifth Harmony
A collab that I always thought was likely after all Pitbull or "Mr Worldwide" as he seems like to refer to himself as has always struck me as a bit of a ladies man so it seemed a natural fit for him to record a song with Fifth Harmony. "Por Favor" is a Spanglish song that has long as you don't Google translate the Spanish language because they reveal Pitbull to be at his sleazy best.wamting this girl to give him kisses or french kisses while the Fifth Harmony girls play the woman and right at the end mentions rice with fried egg? Huh?
Rating: Like I said, it's alright if you ignore the English translation of the lyrics but I can't. 4.10
Song: Boom Boom
Artists: RedOne, Daddy Yankee, French Montana, Dinah Jane
Lauren's done it, Ally's done it so why not Dinah? She's the latest Fifth Harmony to step into the breech for a song outside of Fifth Harmony (which is odd consdering Fifth Harmony released an album earlier this year) and yeah, the chorus of "Boom Boom" interpolates the chorus of Modjo's hit "Lady" big time and is all about having a good time in the club which isn't as sleazy as some of Daddy Yankee's past work? "Despacito" anyone?
Rating: I'll take this over "Por Favor" even with the obvious Modjo chorus melody rip off. 6/10
Song: Million Man
Artist: The Rubens
So The Rubens are back with their lead off single from their forthcoming third album and the fact that they've been working with Run the Jewels is kind of on show here, "Million Man" is very different in sound to anything on "Hoops", that said it is still a decent song and I would give anything to see this chart highly over some of the rubbish on the ARIA Singles Chart right now. it's got a decent hook, I'll take it.
Rating: 8/10
Best of the week: The Rubens get it for "Million Man"
Worst: "Por Favor". Just not a fan of how sleazy some of the lyrics are. Sorry
Next week
A new Christiaa Aguilera song called "America"
Plenty of rumours about N.E.R.D possibly releasing a song with Rihanna.
Talk of a fourth song from Taylor Swift's new album being released (I hope not)
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