Reads & Readings
A running journal of the songs we've been thinking about — what they mean, why they linger, where they come from.
Cover Story · ALLDAY PROJECT
ALLDAY PROJECT's 'FAMOUS': Acting Like Stars Before the Headlines Catch Up
A swaggering debut from a Korean supergroup insisting they already act like stars before fame has officially caught up
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№02
G Herbo, The Kid LAROI & Gunna
You Can't: G Herbo's Gatekeeping Anthem for the Day-Ones
A Chicago rapper's victory lap addressed to the people who weren't around for the Honda years and don't get to ride in the Rolls
№03
Mannywellz
Mannywellz and Wale's 'How It Feels': Love as a Question You Can't Answer Yet
A collaboration about trying to name the vertigo of new love while still carrying the wreckage of an old one you helped break
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TUKI.
TUKI.'s 'Bansanka': A Love Served in Courses, With Tears for Seasoning
A song about staying with someone you keep hurting, framed as a lifelong dinner where every 'I love you' is another course served between apologies
№05
Robyn
Robyn's 'Dancing On My Own': Heartbreak You Can Dance To
A song about standing in a nightclub watching the person you still love go home with someone else, and refusing to leave the dancefloor anyway
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The Reading Room
- 06 TUKI. Bansanka
- 07 Hilary Duff CATastrophe
- 08 Dustin Lynch & Ashley Cooke How You Been
- 09 Elton John I'm Still Standing
- 10 SUPERBEE Pass the Rhyme (feat. CHANGMO & Dok2)
- 11 Miranda Lambert & Ella Langley Snakeskin Boots
- 12 HUGEL & SOLTO (FR) Jamaican (Bam Bam)
- 13 Noah Kahan & The Hunger Games Draw You Out
- 14 The Band Loula Other People
- 15 ALLDAY PROJECT CRASH
- 16 SIENNA SPIRO Great Expectation
- 17 Mondo Cozmo Sweet Forever
