Eminem
Walk on Water
Rap/Hip-Hop

Eminem’s latest profanely ponders how to make sense of life as fame begins to fade.

Migos, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B
MotorSport
Rap/Hip-Hop

“MotorSport” is less like a sport, and more like a degrading song that glorifies promiscuity, drugs and violence.

Selena Gomez & Marshmello
Wolves
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Selena Gomez’s latest tells the story of a young woman haunted by the intoxicating memories of intimacy she hasn’t found …

Bebe Rexha
Meant To Be
Country, Pop

Bebe Rexha teams up with Florida Georgia Line in a country song about waiting to see if something is “Meant …

Taylor Swift
Gorgeous
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Taylor Swift continues to drift toward the kind of airy, hedonistic vapidity that her younger self would have rejected.

Lizzo
Truth Hurts
Pop

Catchy, yes. But a worthy message about loving yourself is buried in the song’s problems.

Post Malone
Rockstar
Rap/Hip-Hop

This chart-topping hit from rapper Post Malone either embraces hedonism or satirically critiques it—but it’s not clear which.

G-Eazy
No Limit
Rap/Hip-Hop

Profane, dehumanizing degradation of women is the name of the game on rapper G-Eazy’s latest hit.

Sam Smith
Too Good at Goodbyes
Pop, R&B

Success hasn’t made Sam Smith less melancholy. But it has given him a bigger platform for his progressive perspective.

Camila Cabello
Havana
Pop

Camila Cabello’s latest hit reminisces about Cuba and kindles a forbidden relationship with a “malo” man.

Kelly Clarkson
Love So Soft
R&B

Kelly Clarkson’s latest single flirts with suggestive naughtiness … but goes deeper than that, too.

U2
You’re the Best Thing About Me
Rock

U2 returns with a melancholy song that’s not as sunny as its title might suggest.

Maroon 5
What Lovers Do
Pop

Maroon 5 teams up with R&B singer SZA in this suggestive lyrical glimpse at the game of love.

Taylor Swift
Look What You Made Me Do
EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop

Taylor Swift’s latest takes vicious aim at her haters, at fame and perhaps at … herself.

Halsey
Bad At Love
Alternative, EDM/Electronica/Techno, Pop, Rock

Halsey chronicles her failed romantic relationships with both men and women in “Bad at Love.”