"On My Own" hardly sacrifices the hard-fought sonic independence he found in the meantime, simply blowing out his pinpoint songwriting, guitar hooks and knack for melodies to arena-pop proportions. The 20-year-old Swede's vocals are crystalline as she sings about wanting to take a hot girl (“If looks could kill then I've died a couple times”) on a hot vacation. Wait a minute -- that also perfectly describes "Blinding Lights."

The 25 Best Songs By LGBTQ Artists In 2020 (So Far) | Billboard Automatically playing similar songs. With a rich vocal control far surpassing most song parodists, Tituss Burgess demonstrated that satire can actually slap with his musical moments on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. If it ain't the real thing, it'll do till the real thing gets here. There's nothing unreal, though, about the singer's performance — as she says it best, "f--k a fantasy, this your motherf--kin' moment." -- S.D. So how did we celebrate Pride this year? Now the ripe old age of seventeen, Dunbar makes music with wisdom beyond his years. © Gamma Gaana Ltd. 2020, All Rights Reserved. (Us neither.)

Cookie Settings SUBSCRIBE NOW. Some songs were meant to make people think, others were intended for a quarantine dance party, but all of them were released so that music lovers would be able to stay sane while stuck inside.

Remember January? -- J.L. Over some echo-laden acoustic guitar that drifts through the air as lazily as the burning sage Mykki Blanco shouts out at the top of this song, "You Will Find It" peppers refreshing, laid-back vibes with some smirk-worthy wordplay, such as off-rhyming "thesis" with "suspicious" and talking about the prophecy/profits coming out of his mouth. But Gia Woods knows better than to look past her own faults, as she brilliantly shows on "EGO" (all-caps necessary). Despite the pandemic putting a lot of new music releases on hold, many queer artists still went out of their way to make sure their fans were staying entertained while in self-isolation. -- J.L. Year-End Hot 100 Songs; Year-End Billboard 200 Albums; 2019 Year-End Boxscore; All Year-End Charts; DECADE-END . Hot artists Top artists for this week. In the end, Woods is able to sum it all up in a simple message: "You want love and control, but you can't have both." It was high time Arca and SOPHIE – two song deconstructionalists with one foot in the pop world and the other in another plane of being – teamed up for a track, and "La Chiqui" from Arca's KiCk i doesn't disappoint: A skittering assortment of robotic chirps, chants and coos pave a path into the producers' overlapping idiosyncratic vision of the future. This will remove all the songs from your queue.

On “Makeup Drawer,” he uses makeup as an analogy while opening up about his lifelong struggle with internalized homophobia, all while embracing his femme side. Normally when pop stars sing about the idea of ego, it's about another's person's inflated sense of self. -- S.D. If you can manage to listen to this song without getting its resentful hook stuck in your head, then you're a stronger person than I am. Over dramatically pounding drums, Katz spits in commanding monotone, "Black Wiccan on the flow, oh so original/ And if you didn't know, now you know" -- then gives you a fake-ending pause to catch your breath, before coming back even harder. It was the start of a new year, a new decade -- and just before it all went to sh-t, English singer-songwriter L Devine (born Olivia Rebecca Devine) gave us a perfect dark-pop-grunge single that also served as an ode to the monotony of everyday life.

Victoria Monét's "Moment" embraces pure, raw sex appeal, as the rising R&B star takes control of her lover's fantasy, ready to bring it to life. Most of the songs get famous because of the artist who sang that song. Here are Billboard Pride's 25 favorite songs by LGBTQ artists released in 2020 (so far). SUBSCRIBE NOW.

It didn’t take long for Ellen Krauss’s steamy single “Bali” to graduate from one of our pop songs playlists to this midyear best list, and it’s easy to hear why. The album's most shining example of this comes with "Let You Let Me Down," a classic heartbreak anthem full of big beats and fat guitar riffs where Missal angrily battles with the fact that by letting her guard down, she allowed someone to hurt her.

-- A.U. With protests, with livestreams, and yes, with new music.

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