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Treat yourself this Halloween with these freakishly perfect songs.

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Happy Halloween 2018!

Ready to Pop is conjuring up a good time with freakishly perfect tunes. Whether you're going out for a night on the town or hosting a costume party, you won't want to miss these must-add essentials. Check out these featured artists, rated from "Super Chill" to "Shook" to "Obsession-worthy."

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Ready To Pop | XYLØ, Riley Clemmons & More Dance Their Troubles Away

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Shake it out with these soon-to-be smashes.

Ready to Pop gazes into the piercing reflection of the ever-spinning disco ball. Light bounces around our bodies and into the darkness lurking just outside the sparkling dance floor. We've left the sorrow at the door, at least for a couple hours, and the music washes over our hearts, sewing up the wounds and proving to be just the soothing agent we needed. Below, check out our latest obsessions, rated on a (slay) scale of "Super Chill" to "Shook" to "Wig Snatched."

XYLØ - "Tears & Tantrums"

XYLØ is a relentless tour de force. She's a badass boss just "dancing in the strobe lights," as she admits between layers of star-strewn synths and dreamy splatters of percussion. "My tears keep on falling down," she also sings, framing her pain as the fuel to her inner fire, slowly but surely crackling to a ferocious display.

Slay Scale: Wig Snatched

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Riley Clemmons - "Hold On"



It might not seem like it in the heat of the moment, but all those wasted tears will lead to a full-on personal revolution. Just ask pop's newest torchbearer Riley Clemmons. "By the grace of God, I'm a survivor," she sings, extending her own personal tragedy as a testament that she's risen far more victoriously than she could have predicted. Through glassy bubbles of ready-made rave beats and classically '80s synths, she is equal parts Selena Gomez and Betty Who and another otherworldly extravagance altogether. Clemmons awakens the senses in a way only she can. She's fearless and not going down without a fight.

Slay Scale: Wig Snatched

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Charlotte Lawrence - "Stole Your Car"



Charlotte Lawrence isn't here to play games. After her heart is shattered to bits, she not only dances out her rage, but she pairs her outrageous emotions and lack of impulse control with sweltering tropical beats and a slinky flow as smooth as the island breeze. "I can't resist the taste of your lips," she sings before confessing that, in fact, the thought of it all makes her sick to her stomach. But by the time the beats drop from the heavens, the listener, a voyeur of sorts, is awash in blue dreams, baby. Nothing like grand theft auto to get some of your anger out.

Slay Scale: Super Chill

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Call Me Loop - "Cut & Run"



After a short-lived romance turned to ash, and the sleazy guy had the nerve to come crawling back, Call Me Loop had had about enough. So, she poured her frustrations out onto a clanging and mountainous pop rallying cry, which pops and fizzes with summer-soaked synths that are fevered and unwavering. "Cut & Run" is a succulent slice of pop music, seasoned to taste, and should do the trick to get over that...well, trick.

Slay Scale: Shook

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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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READY TO POP | Get Turnt on The 4th of July with The Score, Mandy Jiroux & More

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This 4th of July is 'bout to sizzle.

Ready to Pop is arming you with some fist-pumping anthems to turn up this holiday. With the 4th of July smack dab in the middle of the work week this year, you're gonna need some new tunes to crank while you're out on the lake, barbecuing on the deck or simply taking a road trip. Below, check out our latest obsessions, rated on a (slay) scale of "Super Chill" to "Shook" to "Wig Snatched."

The Score - "Glory"

This pop-rock duo don't do it for the "Glory," per se, but a little praise and payoff isn't totally out of the question. Sticking to their classic, foot-stomping structure, this anthem gives new meaning to barn-burning. "I refuse to be another number now," the pair snarls over gleaming rock guitars and drums so alarmingly potent, you might bust an eardrum.

Slay Scale: Wig Snatched

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Roosevelt - "Under the Sun"

Trembling underneath a moonlit backdrop of falling stars and the rocky mountaintops stretching out in all directions, for every eye to behold in simple grandeur, electro-pop newcomer Roosevelt charms with the icy, aerial-shot "Under the Sun." The song is primed with just enough '80s-bolstered synths, drums that just won't quit and a singular voice that penetrates your very soul.

Slay Scale: Super Chill

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Mandy Jiroux - "Running Out of You"

Genres bleed over into one another, and Mandy Jiroux is simply the connective tissue, hooking the sweltering tropical strokes with the buttery R&B peppers and the glistening pop hook. Her voice quakes in enormous vibrations, and you never know if this is then or now. It pumps in your blood, and you just go with it.

Slay Scale: Shook

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Mondo Cozmo - "Tonight Tonight"

Sometimes, we seek things out just to feel something, anything really. We press ourselves up against the glass, in the hope it'll crack and shatter and puncture our veins. Blues-rocker Mondo Cozmo sends up a flair of explosive magnitudes with "Tonight Tonight," a flaky but boisterous romper from his new EP, Your Motherfucker, a glorious upheaval of mid-life angst. But here, between the tightened wires of pop, rock, blues, and soul, he lets us have it. "And I just wanna feel what can never be sold / And I don't wanna die in a nuclear war," he wails. And neither do we.

Slay Scale: Shook

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Tough Love - "Get Low"

Get that tongue wagging with Tough Love's new jolt of electricity in the form of "Get Low," featuring the sterling Melody Man. If twerking were still a wide-spread cultural trend, that's what you'd be doing right this second. But you can still ride each provocative and biting groove, banging and clawing for escape out on the horizon's teetering edge. "This is your final warn," they send up in a starburst of radioactive synths, spraying and splashing on our faces.

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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