So before we dive into this week's reviews of new singles, there's some news that was announced by ARIA on Monday that the revealing of the ARIA charts for the week will now take place on Friday at 5pm, I would think it's most likely to align with New Music Friday but otherwise this shift does feel like its for the inane and petty reason of being the first country to reveal their charts every week, what this means for the blog is that the updates for the 2021 charts and beyond will likely go up on the blog on Saturday.
Anyway, let's get into it and we may as well begin with the garbage this week...
"Cutthroat" by Imagine Dragons
I weirdly had hope the two new Imagine Dragons songs that they released on Friday would be good so when I heard both "Follow You" and this song...oh boy. The reason I am not focusing on "Follow You" is because its an easy to ignore piece of bland grocery core that will get radio airplay because it's safe and relatively inoffensive however "Cutthroat" might just be the worst thing (I can't call it a song) that Imagine Dragons have possibly ever made. Not only does NONE of the instrumentation not fit together well but the hook has Dan Reynolds doing the sort of in your face screaming that leaves me torn between being incredibly uncomfortable to wanting to turn the song off/..this might be worse than Florida Georgia Line's "New Truck.
Rating: 1/10
Anyway onto something much much better...
"Potions" by Summer Thieves
Well okay when I say much better, this at least the production from NZ pop band Summer Thieves is better, the instrumentation sounds like they goes together and sounds like a fucking coherent song even though 'Potions" really doesn't have a strong crescendo or build into its chorus which is something that's way too common in modern pop music these days and that's kind of disappointing given the song's subject matter about finding a path in life and navigating that path through life, it's a bit rote and basic but after I've heard from Imagine Dragons...I'll take it.
Rating: 6/10
"First Time" by Illenium feat. Iann Dior
So ever since his guest appearance on 24KGoldn's "Mood, I've been keeping an eye on what Iann Dior has been doing and in this case he is the featured artist on an EDM/rock cross over track from Illenium and in all honestly I don't mind this. The chorus is catchy even if the lyrics are odd...Dior hasn't met this girl yet he likes her vibe? How does that work, I don't think it's quite Illenium's best but it's still pretty good...check it out
Rating: 7/10
"Feels" by WATTS feat. Khalid
Nashville based singer/songwrier Watts released this song back in 2018 independently, a song that Khalid heard and got in contact with Watts which resulted in this collab...and yeah this is fantastic although I do wish the feeling that is driving both of them insane was a little more fleshed out but this is the best Khalid has sounded on anything since "Better" in 2019 mostly because the production is right up his alley. Yeah, check this out because it's really damn good.
Rating: 8/10
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