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READY TO POP | JHart, Anna Shoemaker & More are Ready to Music & Chill
It’s time to be chill AF.
Ready to Pop is in the mood for chill vibes only this week. Whether you’re looking for smooth weekend tunes or boozy, late-night filters, breakouts like Sean McVerry and July Jones are likely to be just your speed. While beats and anthemic grooves are nice, sometimes, you just wanna slow it down a bit. Below, check out our latest obsessions, rated on a (slay) scale of “Super Chill” to “Shook” to “Wig Snatched.”
JHart – “Put It to Bed”
JHart
“Look what your lips made me do,” JHart confesses on the opening lines of his sweeping, film noir-esque new single “Put It to Bed.” The friction between slick strings and the drip-drop is exhilarating. More importantly, JHart’s voice is equal parts sultry, piercing, and smooth.
Slay Scale: Shook
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Sean McVerry – “Burning Out”
Sean McVerry
The edges of Sean McVerry’s voice burn like charcoal embers slowing vanishing in ash. So, “Burning Out,” his new vibe-hard single, following an EP equally as icy and rich, is suitably supple in tone. He colors in chilled shades – that’s a given – but there’s something so unshakably ’80s about his whole aesthetic that reaches quite an apex here. “What’s the answer? I need an answer,” he wrestles, pulling unsettled ends together and then apart.
Slay Scale: Super Chill
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Anna Shoemaker – “What Am I Doing to Me?”
Anna Shoemaker
There is a tremendous amount of pressure for a debut single. But Anna Shoemaker does the damn thing with “What Am I Doing to Me?,” an atmospheric piece which zigs and zags between kitschy alt-pop and heartier stock. She also packs one of those truly ethereal voices which gets easily stuck on the brain.
Slay Scale: Wig Snatched
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MEAUX – “Summertime”
MEAUX
Buttery smooth, MEAUX’s debut single “Summertime” coats the heart muscles with a smattering of harp-strewn fluttering. It’s built upon a sturdy foundation of R&B, and her vocals are both penetrating and gliding. “Always think of you in the summertime,” she sings, positioning a tale of lonesomeness and sweet nostalgia.
Slay Scale: Shook
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July Jones – “Girl in Paris”
July Jones
We’ve all been there ⎯⎯ so tangled in our infatuations with someone that we forget, you know, that they’re already taken. “No, I don’t wanna be friends,” pop up and comer July Jones inserts with her new single “Girl in Paris,” which mingles classic Top 40 with the airiness of a fresh French afternoon on the plaza. Her vocal is crisp, even through the pounding distortion which funnels her timbre through rattled percussion.
Slay Scale: Wig Snatched
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Jason Scott is a freelance music journalist with bylines in B-Sides & Badlands, Billboard, PopCrush, Ladygunn, Greatist, AXS, Uproxx, Paste and many others. Follow him on Twitter.
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