New Music Friday: Listen to Lorde, Kehlani, KATSEYE & Frankie Grande
It's New Music Friday!
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June might be coming to an end, but summer's just starting to heat up – and our favorite LGBTQ+ (and adjacent) artists have released some sunshine-ready tracks.
We have a handful of new projects this week! Lorde's highly anticipated new album Virgin has finally arrived, KATSEYE is inciting some BEAUTIFUL CHAOS, Kevin Abstract's 18-track album Blush is an entire vibe, and Frankie Grande's debut album Hotel Rock Bottom reveals a new side of the icon.
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Scroll through to listen to this week's best new bops, and follow this writer's New Music Friday playlist on Spotify.
"Mad" - Reneé Rapp
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"It's getting hard to be nice, " Reneé Rapp croons on her angsty new pop-rock track.
"Gameboy" - KATSEYE
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KATSEYE is sick of the games, boy. Their new five-track EP BEAUTIFUL CHAOS is glossy pop perfection.
"Gay HBO Max Song" - Trixie Mattel
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Trixie Mattel's club remix of some HBO's most iconic (and gayest) TV show quotes is an instant club classic. Read a full breakdown of the song's references.
"Folded" - Kehlani
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Song of the summer? Kehlani just dropped the stunningly sapphic music video for her lush R&B song "Folded."
"10AM" - UMI
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UMI's latest indie R&B love song has blessed us with a stunningly sapphic music video.
"Midnight Sun" - Zara Larsson
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Zara Larsson has delivered another pop banger with her MNEK-produced dance track "Midnight Sun" with a killer chorus.
"Hotel Rock Bottom" - Frankie Grande
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Franke Grande bares all on his debut album and the music video for its title track, Hotel Rock Bottom.
"Romeo" - Dove Cameron
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Dove Cameron's dance pop era? The singer-songwriter is channelling Lady Gaga on her experimental new track.
"Lead By Example" - Ali Shah
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Ali Shah is our latest pop boy who "goes both ways" in his steamy new music video.
"97 Jag" - Kevin Abstract
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Kevin Abstract's latest is a silky smooth indie track, one of 18 bangers on his new album Blush.
"Broken Glass" - Lorde
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Lorde's fourth studio album Virgin has arrived, and lyrically toys with the singer's gender expression and identity.
"XD" - Between Friends
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Are you smiling yet? Between friends is ready to dance on "XD."
"Polo" - Kim Petras
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This SOPHIE-inspired track is pushing Kim Petras (and her listeners) to explore the experimental boundaries of pop.
"Bed of Roses" - Teyana Taylor
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Issa Rae is featured in Teyana Taylor's sweepingly romantic new music video.
"You Got Me" - The Aces
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The Aces have released the breezy debut single off their upcoming sapphic disco-pop album Gold Star Baby.
"THE ONE." - Kesha
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Kesha is definitely the one supplying the bangers this summer ahead of her upcoming album release and Tits Out tour.
"Without You" - Rio Romero
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Rio Romero's new track is a reflective ballad on moving on.
"Fussy" - Niiva, Priyanka
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Drag Race star Priyanka teams up with Niiva for their dancefloor-ready banger "Fussy."
"Ashes" - Diplo, Bailey Zimmerman
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Bailey Zimmerman and Diplo team up for their new country song "Ashes."
"IRL" - Lizzo, SZA
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Lizzo is back, and her new song with SZA is our outside vibe for the summer.
"Suzanne" - Mark Ronson, Raye
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Raye and Mark Ronson's latest track "Suzanne" is an ode to powerful woman.
"Again? Fuck." - Alison Wonderland
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Alison Wonderland - Again? Fuck.
Alison Wonderland's hyperpop dreamscape is the chaos we need right now.
Here's the playlist!
Taylor Henderson is a music contributor to Out magazine. Be sure to follow 'the alphabet mafia' playlist on Spotify!
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