The first week of June is ending with an impressive variety of major music releases, with hitmakers such as Sabrina Carpenter, Mariah Carey and Ed Sheeran all dropping new tracks.
Both S.C. and M.C. released songs dedicated to the types of partners they’re attracted to, but with decisively different attitudes. Marking her first piece of new music since the Short n’ Sweet deluxe album dropped in February, Carpenter skewers incapable men on “Manchild” while owning up to her own habit of choosing them in the first place — “I like my men all incompetent,” she sings on the Jack Antonoff-produced track — whereas the Songbird Supreme declares she’s “looking for the dangerous type” on her first proper single in years, “Type Dangerous.”
Other singles that dropped this week include Sheeran’s sparkling “Sapphire” — on which the British pop star blends dance-pop with Indian influences and sings a few lyrics in Punjabi — as well as a remix of KATSEYE’s hit “Gnarly,” featuring Ice Spice. In a recent interview with Billboard, the members of the girl group said that after 2024’s Brat Summer and Hot Girl Summer before that, they’re ready for a “Gnarly” summer in 2025 — and this new collaboration with the New York rapper seems to be the next step in making that happen.
Plus, music fans got a vast array of new albums by everyone from Turnstile, whose Never Enough arrived Friday (June 6), to Addison Rae, who dropped her long-awaited debut solo LP Addison following steady growth with singles “Diet Pepsi,” “Aquamarine” and “Headphones On.” Lil Wayne also finally unveiled Tha Carter VI, a sprawling LP that features collaborations with the likes of Jelly Roll and BigXThaPlug that prove Weezy is still a gifted hip-hop craftsman more than two decades after he first started his Carter album series.
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