Let Me Calm Down, a track featured on Nicki Minaj’s album Pink Friday 2, which came out on 8 December 2023, marks the first time the Harujuku Barbie has teamed up with J. Cole. This came...
We take it that the titular “Barbie” is a reference to Nicki Minaj, as she is known to refer to herself by such a moniker, i.e. likening herself to a “Barbie doll”, as she...
Live and Let Live is the final song on the playlist of I/O, Peter Gabriel’s 10th studio album. All 12 songs on the project were respectively released as singles in the order that they appear on the playlist,...
And Still is the penultimate track on the playlist of Peter Gabriel’s album I/O. As with the other songs on the project, it is treated to three different mixes in total, the “Bright-Side Mix”, the “Dark-Side Mix”...
Different Day, which came out on 8 December 2023, is being touted as some type of comeback track for Playboi Carti, even though he did drop a song earlier this year, Popular, alongside Madonna and...
Since the release of Nicki Minaj’s album Pink Friday 2 a couple of days ago on 8 December 2023, FTCU is one of the tracks from its playlist that has been getting the most press. That’s because it features...
The date of 8 December 2023 proved to be “Pink Friday 2”, i.e. the day on which Nicki Minaj’s album of that same name was finally released, after she has been more or less...
In composing this song, Peter Gabriel set out to imitate “some of the great Tamla Motown rhythm sections” of old but “in a modern way”. Also interesting to note is that for a time, he worked...
This song has an interesting backstory, in that Peter Gabriel has dedicated it to Jo Cox, a British MP who was “brutally murdered” at the age 41. This is someone whom Gabriel had personally interacted with in...
Unlike some of the other songs found on I/O, Peter Gabriel did not provide a deeply elaborate or poetic explanation behind Olive Tree. Instead, in terms of what the lyrics represent (according to his website), Gabriel stated...