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Raleigh Ritchie – Time In A Tree
No, not a Christmas Tree. We all know Raleigh Ritchie aka Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm on Games of Thrones. But now we can all know him as that hot dude from Game of Thrones who is singing that baby-making music on the side. No wonder Missandei is HERE FOR IT.
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Thank U, Next – Ariana Grande
In the perfect mashup of Holiday meets non-Holiday music we have Ariana Grande’s Thank You Next video which is so full of the hot tea and Mean Girls, Thirteen Going on Thirty, Bring It On, Legally Blond references plus LITERAL cameos (heeeeey Aaron Samuels!), I almost thought I directed it myself. Kris Jenner as the “cool mom” aka Amy Pohler is so good. Damn. Ok, I feel like an Ari stan now. If you need another Ariana hit and self-love anthem, her song God Is A Woman is just what the doctor ordered.
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Boo’d Up – Ella Mai
2018 has been another dumpster fire of a year, so let’s just forget it and head right back to the mid ’90s where this song is so obviously plucked from. Newcomer Ella Mai’s Boo’d Up is the perfect throw back to Mary J, TLC, En Vogue, SWV, and all those queens.
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Shallow – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Cause I’m still not over it.
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Nothing Breaks Like A Heart – Miley Cyrus & Mark Ronson
I can’t explain it, I just want Miley to win. She seems to have gotten her shit more together in recent years, Liam’s back in the picture, and her Happy Hippie foundation works with homeless teens, and that’s so good. Plus this has such a Dolly Parton ‘Jolene’ vibe to it, I dig.
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Entropy – Grimes and Bleachers
Were you just thinking about how much you could use a little Grimes pre-Elon Musk? Me too. Here’s a song with her and Bleachers aka Jack Antonoff aka Lena Dunham’s ex aka I just try to forget those last two things.
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The Man Who Has Everything & Do My Own Thing – Chance the Rapper
In Chance the Rapper fashion, he dropped two singles back to back last week and they’re the perfect addition to December counter-programming music. There’s even Holiday-esque mentions in the song without being Jingle Bells and Celine Dion and Michael Buble. Bonus:
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Wanna listen to all of them? I made you a Spotify Playlist! Happy Holidays!
