New Music Friday has just delivered a fresh batch of bangers from our favorite LGBTQ+ (and adjacent) musicians.
This is the week of collabs! Doechii and Alemeda get fiesty on "Beat A B!tch Up," Calum Scott turns a Whitney Houston classic into a ballad, FKA twigs joins Oklou on "viscus," and Orville Peck and Noah Cyrus yearn on their new ballad.
Meanwhile, RuPaul's Drag Race star Tayce has entered a pop boy era, we're lost in the fantasy of Eli's "All at Once," Khalid's first album since coming out is ready for the dance floor, Towa Bird is prepared to steal your girl, and Brandi Carlile is stuck in "A War With Time."
Scroll through to listen to this week's best new bops, and follow this writer's New Music Friday playlist on Spotify.
"Beat A B!tch Up" - Alemeda, Doechii
Doechii goes rock alongside Alemeda on their kiss-off track to a lame ex-lover.
"Kiss" - Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato brings the heat on her new dance floor ready banger.
"IDONTWANNA" - TAYCE
RuPaul's Drag Race UK star Tayce is out of drag and brings the homoeroticism in "IDONTWANNA."
"Magnify" - Dizzy Fae
Magnify your love of Dizzy Fae! The genre-blending singer-songwriter is undeniably one to watch!
"A War With Time" - Brandi Carlile
Time goes by and people get older, and Brandi Carlile grapples with loss and aging on her moving new track.
"Nah" - Khalid
Khalid's new album after the sun goes down, his first since coming out, is unabashedly about the ups and downs of relationships with boys.
"All at Once" - Eli
Anyone else nostalgic for the 2000s? Eli's latest is giving American Idol winner who just made their dreams come true.
"Love Is A Canyon" - Noah Cyrus, Orville Peck
Orville Peck and Noah Cyrus's latest duet is devastatingly beautiful.
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" - Calum Scott, Whitney Houston
Calum Scott channels the spirit of Whitney in a new piano ballad featuring Houston's voice and image.
"Tarmac" - Cavetown
Land in Cavetown's world on his lovely new single "Tarmac."
"Your Girl" - Towa Bird
Watch out, Towa Bird is ready and willing to steal your girl.
"viscus" - Oklou, FKA twigs
Oklou and FKA twigs get "viscus" on their experimental yet goergous new collab.
"Losing" - Lucy Dacus
Lucy Dacus short and sweet new ballad is about a debilitating loss.
... And here's the playlist!
Taylor Henderson is a music contributor to Out magazine. Be sure to follow 'the alphabet mafia' playlist on Spotify!
