TRACK OF THE WEEK
In Common by Alicia Keys This tropical house late-night texting anthem isn't quite what we'd come to expect from Alicia "soulful piano" Keys. But this is A Good Thing. For this track, Alicia has teamed up with The Weeknd's longtime collaborator Illangelo to make a slinky number about hooking up with the wrong person, and it shows: it's sexy, current and catchy. As she sings under her breath "if you could love somebody like me/ you must be messed up too", we all know exactly where things are headed for this couple, and we're very interested.
Hero of the week, once again, is Ariana Grande. She told Billboard that she's tired of double standards for men and women. "If you're going to rave about how sexy a male artist looks with his shirt off and a woman decides to get in her panties or show her boobies for a photoshoot, she needs to be treated with the same awe and admiration."
News of the week
Time to tiptoe to Harry Styles solo update corner: Johnny from Snow Patrol told the Press Association that he's been writing with Hazza for years. "I'm really excited by the way he's sounding at the minute, he's such a talent," he said. "I've never been in a studio with Harry. We tend to just hang out at his house or mine, or we'll meet somewhere and set up in a living room." He added: "He's really authentic and he has an incredible voice, so we've been writing a lot of songs." More updates when we have them, fans.
Zeroes of the week are people who try to gender label music, according to Tegan and Sara. Tegan told Billboard: "There's a huge chunk of our career where we felt like the way people would write about us was, 'It's a page out of their diary, it's chick music, it's so femotional,' and it annoyed us . . . I was like, why is it so bad to talk about your emotions? Isn't that what music is? Guys do it all the time, why does it ultimately make us 'chick music'?"
