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WHAT’S THE “ONE ” OF 2017? EW ASKED A FEW PROS TO SIZE JUKEBOX JURY UP THE COMPETITION. By Nolan Feeney

DJ Khaled FEAT. , Calvin Harris Kygo & Selena Kyle DNCE , CHANCE FEAT. FRANK FEAT. LIL YACHTY FEAT. THE RAPPER & LIL WAYNE OCEAN & Gomez “iSpy” “Passionfruit” “Body Like a Back Road” “Kissing Strangers” “I’m the One” “Slide” “It Ain’t Me” “Issues” “Mask Off”

I had Kyle come out As much as I want to get I’m not a country girl This song doesn’t speak This is the new “Lady This song feels like cruis- The production is not An incredible record. All the girls wanted to play at my show in L.A. His tired of Drake, I can’t. at all, but I’ve played this to me on a lyrical or Marmalade,” but the guy ing down the coastline. If crazy-innovative or One thing I love flute when I was trying out vibe is so fresh. I Everything he puts out is song a couple of times, melodic level. It has that version. It’s probably you had a convertible, different like some of the about this song is that it’s for high school marching love this record; it’s so fire. I can’t wait to hear and I can actually sing old Maroon 5 vibe, for the going to be the song of you’d take the top down, others, but I think what very conversational. It’s band, and now you have all easy, I can’t help singing what he comes up with the hook back to you—it’s younger generations that the summer. Sometimes grab an iced coffee, and makes the song really spe- not trying to be gimmicky, these rappers using it and it. What makes a great next. There are very few pretty catchy! And I weren’t around for Songs artists will put a million blast the song with some- cial is Selena. It’s not it’s just very honest making it sound gangster! I

summer song is some- artists that excite you like think Sam Hunt is really About Jane, which was IMAGES HEKIMIAN/GETTY JULIEN MINAJ: IMAGES; HIATT/GETTY TIMOTHY HUNT: IMAGES; GOLDRING/GETTY ERIKA DRAKE: IMAGES; KISBY/GETTY ROGER people on one song and it one you really like. something you’d expect and real. It came don’t die for lyrics with thing that’s not so that, and he’s one of hot. [Laughs] incredible. It’s really cool falls flat, but this song is a her to do, and she killed it. out around the same time drugs in them, but if it’s Bebe heavy and is on the hap- those artists for me. The for to be a part YACHTY: LIL IMAGES; BELIVEAU/GETTY ASHLEY GENIUS: PERFUME IMAGES; STAWIARZ/GETTY ASTRID KHALID: IMAGES; VENTURELLI/GETTY REXHA: . You can be a guy Her vocals are beautiful. as Noah Cyrus’ “Make honest and real, I support it. Rexha pier side—major chords, guys are taking over right of that, and I love Nicki, or a girl and sing along to Me (Cry).” They’re The pop star just dropped her simple and chill. now. I’m like, “Girls, come but it’s like a C version of it; it’s a universal record. these really simplistic- new single “The Way I on, we gotta step it up!” “.” I’m obsessed. sounding records Are (Dance With Some- that are very unique and body),” featuring Lil Wayne. very refreshing.

I love the pro-positivity It reminds me of being in This song reminds me of They make such wonder- With all these heavy It’s a smash. What Calvin’s I’m a big fan of tropical What I love about this Literally last night I movement [Kyle and a big tube in an aquarium when I lived in northern ful toe-tappers. If you’re hitters, it was meant to be doing right now is house, and Kygo domi- song is the message is so was with a couple of my Lil Yachty] have going on: and there’s water around New York. It was all lifted in school, you can’t help a No. 1. It feels like amazing: all these groovy, nates that. Selena has a real: “I got issues, you got friends and the song Look at what’s around me. The way he flows on it trucks, [off-roading], fish- but tap your desk or bob summer, and when you melodic tracks. Even very beautiful voice as them too!” We all have came on the radio. We you! Don’t focus on the is very smooth and fluid, ing, stuff. This your head. I’ve always think of summer, you though it’s so funk-driven, well. I like the [chopped- our personality traits that were riding down negative vibes! That’s and Drake’s melodies are song really brought me a been a Nicki Minaj fan, have to smile. you can hear the artist’s up vocals] because that’s make us. It’s about finding the street bumping the something I really always awesome. sense of nostalgia for my and she really adds the vibe. When we got something I wish I could the person who can put song and singing all gravitate toward. They’re high school experience. sprinkle of fairy dust together for [Harris’ do with my voice. I’ve up with your bulls---. the words. And the Khalid also friends of mine, so Once you find a [connec- and makes it magical. She “Rollin,” also featuring tried to do it before and it #MaskOffChallenge that The singer behind the that helps me enjoy it. tion] to the music, it lifts almost everything Future] he was like, never comes out cool for happened on ? top 20 hit “Location” kicks makes it more enjoyable. she hops on. “I’m not here to tell you me. Maybe one day! I’ve participated in [the off a tour in July to support his debut album, what to do, do what you memes]. It’s definitely the American Teen. love.” He’s super nice. song of the summer.

I like that it started out [Drake has] a lot of I really did not care for Whoever wrote it has I don’t care for it, but I This was a little too I like that it went to a ’90s I hear it everywhere: in I was really into the flute. with a skit about gratitude! albums and songs; it’s this. I like country, but I talent. I can feel the writ- like the very first line beachy. If people world-music place— the car, at Target. It’s You can’t understand It’s feel-good. If you listen kind of relentless. They all don’t know how much I ing, not the performance, [when Khaled shouts out were having sex on the Enigma, Deep Forest. omnipresent. I like that anything Future says, to it enough, the lyrics are kind of blend together. like popular country. It’s which is the ultimate shady to his ]: “We beach or something That’s what all those it’s just and vocals. so you have to pick kind of f---ing weird. It’s But I can never really be like he thought of this thing you can say about the Best Music!” I wish nasty was happening bands were, that weird That’s audacious. People something you recognize. goofy and surreal. Also, he mad at Drake. He just [concept] and wrote a list: it. But I do like the idea of it were just that over and [in the song], I’d affected vocal that’s cut crave that kind of thing, Is he saying “Percocet”? didn’t rhyme anything with seems like he would smell Speed limits! Maps! That’s kissing a bunch of people over for four minutes. I like it more. Just the up and sounds almost like having a No. 1 This is one of my “Oprah,” which I think is really good. I would . It’s cheap. I also and trying to “find some- think I’d enjoy it more than beach? As a person, like chanting. It has that single with just her and the favorites on this list. Perfume classy. You shouldn’t try to appreciate a hug from don’t like when men sing one I trust.” I feel like I did the rest of the song. I don’t like to go there. fantasy element. piano. All the songs Genius rhyme with “Oprah.” him. It’s just a feeling I about women and try to that! Maybe I’ll do an ultra- The song is a little [Michaels] wrote I really The experimental indie-pop have. I don’t fight Drake. come across as sensitive pretentious serious cover. too nice and sweet. like. “Hands to Myself” artist recently released when it’s just the same s--- [by ]? his fourth LP, No Shape, in a different way. I wish we were talking and is on tour now.

DJ KHALED:DJ MICHAEL BEZJIAN/GETTY IMAGES; HARRIS: KEVINJULIA WINTER/GETTY MICHAELS/GETTY IMAGES; IMAGES; GOMEZ: FUTURE: DON ARNOLD/WIREIMAGE; WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE MICHAELS: about that one!

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