🎵 Music findings #20

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #20 of Music findings. Ten off the playlist this week, from 1985 synth-pop to a 2024 animated series.

🎵 Songs

• Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock — Money Trees — the hazy centrepiece of good kid, m.A.A.d city, built on a Beach House sample. “Halle Berry or hallelujah”:

• Arcane, Stromae, Pomme — Ma Meilleure Ennemie — a bittersweet French duet from Arcane season two, love and hate in the same breath:

• The Verve — Bitter Sweet Symphony — that looping string sample cost Richard Ashcroft the songwriting credit for 22 years, until Jagger and Richards handed it back in 2019:

• JAY-Z, Linkin Park — Numb / Encore — the Collision Course mashup that shouldn’t work and won a Grammy anyway.

• Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World — a shuffling, sunlit song about power, and a US number one in 1985.

• AURORA — Runaway — written when she was eleven, released in 2015, then rediscovered by TikTok years later.

• Mura Masa, A$AP Rocky — Love$ick — steel-pan bounce under a lazy Rocky verse. Pure summer.

• Snow Strippers — Under Your Spell — the Detroit duo’s blown-out, dreamy electro at its most hypnotic.

• MARINA — Bubblegum Bitch — the candy-coated, sarcastic opener of Electra Heart.

• Lil Uzi Vert — 20 Min — bright, bouncy Luv Is Rage 2 cut, all melody and no wasted seconds.

🎧 Play them all — the full playlist, where the next issues pull from too:

🗂️ Catch up on past issues.