Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday’s most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
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Last week, we featured Taylor Swift, Niall Horan, Tinashe and more.
This week: Olivia Rodrigo releases her anticipated third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love; BTS drop a new song on streamers that had previously only been available on a vinyl edition of ARIRANG; and Jack White teases his just-announced new album, Frozen Charlotte, out next month…plus much more. Check out all of this week’s picks below:
Olivia Rodrigo, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
After topping the Hot 100 with lead single “Drop Dead” and entering the top five with second single “The Cure,” Olivia Rodrigo’s third full length is finally here. You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love delivers on what its two sections promise: songs about being a “girl so in love” (section one) and songs where that same narrator seems pretty down about it (“you seem pretty sad,” as section two is called). Standout track and third single, “Stupid Song,” seems to tug at the thread that unites those two sensations: feeling stupid. While it comes loaded with the declaration that “nobody’s wanted somebody more,” the humor is in the fact that, as the title suggests, such big feelings can seem rather silly in hindsight. For more, read Billboard‘s review and tracks ranked.
BTS, “Come Over”
In celebration of the 13th BTS Festa, an annual festival for ARMY, the global icons dropped “Come Over” on streamers. Previously, the thumping, hip-hop heavy track was only available as a bonus on the deluxe vinyl of the group’s March album, ARIRANG. The song was co-written by SUGA, RM and j-hope, among others, and co-produced by Grammy award winner Cirkut with SUGA and Ammo.
Jack White, “Dollar Bill”
Following the two-pack White released and performed as musical guest on Saturday Night Live in April (“G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs” and “Derecho Demonico”), the rocker returns with a new single from his freshly-announced new album out July 10. The bluesy “Dollar Bill” opens with a twangy western riff before exploding into classic White, who is most at home on any track when delivering lyrical riddles like: “You can’t control me/ Unless you owe me/ And you don’t own me/ Unless I owe you.”
Bebe Rexha, “One Day”
The newly independent pop singer, who partnered with Empire in January after a career with Warner, has dropped her first album since the move. Titled Dirty Blonde, the project mostly delivers high-energy dance-pop bangers, but “One Day” stands out from the rest not only for its mid-tempo production but mostly for its honest lyrics, which Rexha co-wrote. And while it’s likely about a former flame, it could just as easily be a message to Rexha’s fallen fans: “One day, you’ll realize just what you lost/ By then, you’ll be nothing more than an afterthought.” Who needs ’em, right?
Infinity Song, INFINITY SONG
Alt-rock sibling band Infinity Song has released its self-titled debut album today, and it delivers on the exact type harmonies and tightknit writing that can only come from that kind of bond. “We grew up studying music together, performing together and learning how to listen to one another,” the Boyd siblings shared in a statement. “This album gave us the space to lean into our individual strengths while pushing ourselves as musicians…we’re proud of how expansive the record became without losing the intimacy that’s always been at the heart of Infinity Song.” The album was recorded between the Boyd siblings home base of New York and Los Angeles.
