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Kenya Grace’s Haunting ‘It’s Not Fair’ and 5 More Cool New Pop Songs This Week
This week's cool new pop songs come from Kenya Grace, Lizzy McAlpine, jxdn and more.
Kenya Grace stumbled into a crackerjack formula with her breakthrough hit “Strangers” last fall, harnessing a thriving U.K. dance scene, dabbling in drum’n’bass and steeping its TikTok-friendly pop hook in the ethereal dejection natural to the South African-born British polymath’s gentle, forgiving voice. Lizzy McAlpine’s “Ceilings” exploded last year thanks to its mix of affecting melodies and arresting storytelling, and while “I Guess” swaps out the yearning for disappointment, the songwriting remains top-notch, and the widescreen climax at the end will make your heart swell. After releasing his album Lola under his Goth Babe moniker last year, Griff Washburn is quickly back with a hazed-out summer playlist offering, tapping Surfaces to assist on this shimmery single in which the word “Mexico” is elongated into a windows-down cry for adventure.
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