Friday Music Guide: New Music From Cardi B, Miley Cyrus, Lola Young and More

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves arsenic a useful usher to this Friday’s astir indispensable releases — the cardinal euphony that everyone volition beryllium talking astir today, and that volition beryllium dominating playlists this play and beyond. 

This week, Cardi B brings an extremity (and/or a caller beginning) to her long-awaited Drama, Miley Cyrus lets a mates of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers successful connected her “Secrets” RAYE searches for her not-yet-found “Husband” and overmuch more.

Cardi B, Am I the Drama?

If you were wondering wherever the clip went with Cardi B successful the 7 years since Invasion of Privacy, you tin surely perceive a batch of it successful her supersized 2nd medium Am I the Drama? Nearly treble the magnitude of Invasion astatine 23 tracks and 71 minutes, Drama contains a assortment of caller guests, subjects and sounds for the rap great, including the merengue workout “Bodega Baddie,” the 4 Non Blondes-interpolating “What’s Going On” (with Lizzo) and the drill-influenced “Safe” (with Kehlani). It’s an overstuffed but thrilling listen, reminding america wherefore we’d been waiting truthful breathlessly for the instrumentality of Full Cardi for truthful agelong successful the archetypal place.

Miley Cyrus, “Secrets”

Never a atrocious thought to get 2 members of 1 of the astir beloved stone bands of each clip connected your caller opus — but Lindsay Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood are peculiarly bully fits connected “Secrets,” 1 of 2 caller tracks from the deluxe reissue of Miley Cyrus‘ underappreciated Something Beautiful album. (The other, “Lockdown,” besides features a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer successful Talking Heads’ David Byrne.) The guitarist and drummer assistance lend a sweetly breezy ’80s Fleetwood Mac-style groove to Cyrus’ promises of “Anywhere you go/ I’ll follow” — making it a worthy follow-up to her Stevie Nicks-featuring “Edge of Midnight” remix of “Midnight Sky.”

Lola Young, I’m Only F–king Myself

U.K. singer-songwriter Lola Young‘s archetypal caller LP since scoring a planetary smash with “Messy” shows...