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 · ATEEZ
ATEEZ's 'BAD': Infatuation in Three Languages
A trilingual infatuation song where a K-pop group borrows Latin pop swagger to describe being helplessly floored by a woman who owns every room she walks into
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№02
Future
Not for the Radio: Future's Off-Air Confession
A rap that opts out of pop accessibility, insisting the artist's real thoughts on wealth, women, grief and paranoia belong off the airwaves
№03
Benjamin Pajak & Original Broadway Cast of The Lost Boys
Superpower: The Lost Boys' Bilingual Call to the Dance Floor
A bilingual invitation to stop waiting for permission and dance your way into collective belonging
№04
Rod Wave
Rod Wave, 'Piece Of Your Love': The Loneliness Behind the Ask
A late-night plea from a man who wants a woman's trust more than her body, sung between club runs, prison thoughts, and the loneliness that follows both
№05
DoGoodDad
The Father Who Wants to Stop the Clock: Inside DoGoodDad's 'Don't Turn the Page'
A father's plea to pause time while his young son is still small enough to want him near
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The Reading Room
- 06 Steve Gruber and the Freedom Project & Real America's Music One Nation
- 07 Kevin Gates & YoungBoy Never Broke Again I Am
- 08 Little Big Town & Kelsea Ballerini Closing Time
- 09 YoungBoy Never Broke Again Shot Callin
- 10 Calvin Harris & Disciples How Deep Is Your Love (Chris Lake Remix)
- 11 Florence + the Machine Dog Days Are Over (Live At Madison Square Garden)
- 12 Daniel Caesar Get You (feat. Kali Uchis)
- 13 Don Toliver No Idea
- 14 Tim McGraw Song For America
- 15 Turnpike Troubadours & Sierra Hull Feelin' Good Again
- 16 Kanye West Ok Ok
- 17 Gabby Barrett In On It
