I've not listened to that much new music this year yet. I'm finding myself overwhelmed and frustrated again at the amount of things I want to be into it (new music, old music, books, video games, TV shows, etc etc) and needing to find a solution.
Speaking of music however, I really want to talk about Doja Cat. I came to her music through TikTok, that new song Kiss Me More with SZA (which is dope) is everywhere, and then I started hearing Streets a lot, and that beat is fucking so good, and that led me to Hot Pink, which I think is pretty fucking outstanding, so many good songs, including a dope track called Bottom Bitch that fucking samples blink 182.
And then I was talking to some friends about how I love her and they all started responding with cow emojis and I was like what the fuck, turns out, I had no idea about this song, which apparently is what made her popular in the first place!!
First of all, holy fuck, like the song is so stupid but it's really done, it's really funny, the film clip is fucking next level good, the way she interpolates like five popular R&B/hip-hop songs towards the end is amazing. AND I actually genuinely really like the song - the beat is really fucking nice, and the way she sings matches the beat so nicely, like if it wasn't a fucking troll I'd be like this song absolutely rules. But it does rule! (Oh and she's really fucking hot.) The only thing I can compare it to is Turquoise Jeep - because not only are the lyrics really funny, but the lo-fi film clip is brilliant, AND the song is really good. Turquoise Jeep and Michael Dapaah are the only other artists I've come across who's been able to pull all that off in recent times (obviously shout-outs to Weird Al and Richard Cheese, but they're more in the covers area than originals).
The only thing souring it for me is that the next song that plays in my iTunes is fucking American Pie which completely destroys my vibes.