Fall deeper and harder with these essential tunes.
Ready to Pop succumbs to Cupid's twisted arrow this week. Sometimes, that newfound love can spark a deep well of euphoria, and other times, it quickly sours like year-old milk but you're so hooked, you can't escape from between the sheets. Still, at other moments, you make up and move on to uncover a new layer of adoration. Below, check out our latest obsessions, rated on a (slay) scale of "Super Chill" to "Shook" to "Wig Snatched."
Stela Cole - "Throwing Up Butterflies"
Following the absolutely insatiable single "You FO," Stela Cole delights with a bit of tummy-tingling with "Throwing Up Butterflies," the titular cut to her forthcoming debut EP (out this Friday). "I can't stop throwing up these butterflies," she asserts, the hook framing exactly how far in love she's fallen. It's a blast of neon, and Cole (once again) will rip your heart wide open.
Slay Scale: Wig Snatched
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E^ST - "I Don't Lack Imagination"
Nah, bro, E^ST isn't be dramatic over a silly summer fling. "I'm better at wanting you than having you," she sings. And we've all been there: we've built up this fantasy of the smoldering, perfectly-chiseled life guard, to find out they're a complete jerk. It happens. "You should have stayed a fantasy," she tells herself, clouds of production popping over her head. Gurl, same.
Slay Scale: Shook
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Brett Cameron - "Mazes"
Relationships are complicated. We know that much. Electro-pop singer-songwriter Brett Cameron paints a series of "Mazes" in his trek to find himself and a love that is so befuddling that it rises like a corridor around his heart. "My intuition is the guide," he concludes in the finale stanza, crafting what could be both his and his lover's resurgence. The synths snap at his feet, and we may never know exactly how it ends (you'll just have to spin his EP of the same name to find out).
Slay Scale: Super Chill
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Sam Setton - "Wine"
"Where'd we go the wrong way?" R&B smooth-talker Sam Setton probes with his new single "Wine," a boozy mid-tempo about wine's sweet "healing" power. Well, it's only fleeting, but perhaps they can rekindle that love they once had and left strewn in the streets of "Santiago" that one summer. "There's nothing this bottle of wine can't do," he later sings, his lips curling as he tries to woo back an ex. Dear listener, you're likely to submit to that buzz, too, just a warning.
Slay Scale: Super Chill
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Kyan Palmer - "Make It Up"
Instead of ending it and moving on, Kyan Palmer and his lover fall deeper into the passionate, clothes-tearing romance that has thus far defined their relationship. "Is it wrong that the fighting turns me on?" Palmer asks as the production burns until only embers remain. His voice carries with it the weight of their history together, but in a way that's provocative and irresistible.
Slay Scale: Wig Snatched
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Jason Scott is a freelance music journalist with bylines in B-Sides & Badlands, Billboard, PopCrush, Ladygunn, Greatist, AXS, Uproxx, Paste and many others. Follow him on Twitter.
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