New Music Friday: 12/6/24

Here are the rules: I listen to all 100 tracks of Spotify's New Music Friday playlist, except for anything that rhymes the n-word with itself more than three times, any screamo or screamo-adjacent stuff, any CCM that reveals its true intentions in time for me to hit the skip button, and any egregiously corny modern country music, typically performed by a dude with two first names. Having sifted through this week's playlist, here's what I actively enjoyed:

"toxic till the end," ROSÉ
If you've read this column for any length of time, you won't be surprised to learn that I'm docking ROSÉ points for stylizing her name and her song titles — and now that we've gotten that out of the way, we can focus on the music at hand, which is pure pop bliss in the machine-engineered way that all K-pop I've ever heard seems to be. I could be cynical about it — it'd be super easy, in fact — but instead of going that direction, I'm choosing to celebrate an inestimably well-written, charmingly performed song.