New Music Friday Review: Troye Sivan, Another 50 Shades Freed soundtrack song

So this week was weird, we got some new Troye Sivan, another song from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack and a song for the NFL Superbowl.


Song: The Champion
Artists: Carrie Underwood, Ludacris



So this is the song being used by the TV networks for the Superbowl and by NBC for the upcoming Winter Olympics. Here's the thing, if you like Jessica Simpson's "Irresistible' meets Katy Perry's "Roar", its another cliched empowerment pop song about an athlete getting up again after they've been 'beaten' etc. In context for what it is, I guess it's okay if it's just for TV networks to use for their sports coverage. Carrie sounds fine, Ludacris guest verse is decent but both have done better but any other purpose? I can't say I'd want to hear these cliches from a pop song. Carrie, you are better than this.


Rating: 4/10


Song: My My My!
Artist: Troye Sivan



Troye Sivan is back with a new single and look, this song has some good moments, the verses and the pre chorus are pretty darn great and even the chorus is good even though it does feel like that Troye's voice is lost in the back of the mix somewhere however what kills me about this song is that introduction, it's sounds like a cassette tape running on it's last legs  and really considering the rest of the song, it should have been better but definitely potential there.


Rating: 6/10


Song:  Capital Letters
Artists: Hailee Steinfeld, Bloodpop



So the latest song released from the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack and I have got to say this probably the best Hailee Steinfeld has sounded on a song and really this isn't all that bad even if the meaning of the song does come across as a little pretentious (honestly) 'a metaphor for the power of love, then compared to the strong emphasis on capital letters" Ugh.

Even with this song continuing modern music's frustrating obsession with beats over any discernible melody, I actually don't mind this at all.


Rating: 7/10


Song: We're Going Home
Artist: Vance Joy


I was hoping that "We're Going Home" would be better than the painfully dull "Like Gold" however "We're Going Home" is pretty darn excellent. A quite rambling song that Vance Joy wrote while touring with Taylor Swift about stepping into the unknown and finding out what you as a person are made of inside and man, that chorus just springs a lot to my mind right now. I really enjoyed this song a lot largely because of the melody that is allowed to shine through.


Rating:  8/10


Best of the week: "We're Going Home" by Vance Joy
Worst: "The Champion" by Carrie Underwood feat. Ludacris


New Music Friday next week
- "Dancing" by Kylie Minogue
- "Sick Boy" by The Chainsmokers.