Lizzo is a master of the self-love anthem. On her new album Cuz I Love You, the singer-rapper-flutist-dancer hammers that fact home. “Soulmate” is pure joy: “Look up in the mirror like ‘damn she the one,’” she insists, celebrating her independence: “True love ain’t something you can buy yourself; true love finally happens when you by yourself.” These are mantras that could feel gimmicky, but in Lizzo’s hands they are undeniably honest, delivered in style over bouncy big band beats. Listening to “Soulmate” is nourishing; dancing to “Soulmate” is inevitable.
When Beyoncé released her Coachella performance documentary this week, she also gave the world the gift of a live album. Most of that album consists of songs fans already know and love: “Crazy in Love,” “Formation,” “Partition.” But at the very end of the extensive 40-track package — played over the credits of the documentary — is a new cover of an old song, an R&B-funk bop that’s timeless but inflected with Bey’s swag. It’s a showcase for her athletic, memorable voice, which rises and shines throughout, but it’s also a kind of retrospective on where she’s been and where she’s going. “I did the damn thing,” she says, and that’s a fact.
In the vein of BANKS, Ariana Grande or AlunaGeorge, Lolo Zouaï is making a case for the continued relevance of the moody-pop-meets-hip-hop wave. With French-Algerian roots and a background of homes in California, Paris and New York, the 24-year-old Zouaï’s music is placeless, genre-less and entirely of the moment. “Out the Bottle,” off her self-produced debut album High Highs to Low Lows, is a catchy trap-inflected track delivered with the lightest touch. It’s full of brash confidence at the start — “Sippin’ on rosé on this flight,” she brags, “I got a window and an aisle” — but traces an entire journey to self-doubt in just a few short minutes. Zouaï wrote this debut before even getting signed to a label; now she’s one to watch.
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