Rosalía and Chlöe have brought the tunes to secure your weekend.
Rosalía is back with her first drop of 2023 bringing us the laidback and tender alt-pop track ‘LLYLM’. The romantic number was released on the 27th January and is one to add to your Valentine’s Day playlist. In a rare move, the bilingual singer sings in both Spanish and English in this sweet-sounding sound telling her partner “I don’t need honesty/Baby, lie like you love me” in the chorus. With the mix emphasising the bass and hand-clap rhythm the song is one you’ll want to move to. We’re loving Rosalía’s enchanting sad girl energy on ‘LLYLM’ and are hoping she’ll release more songs like this throughout the year.
The flamenco sensation also released a visualiser alongside the track bringing us adorable coquette style with the singer jumping on a bed wearing a cute grey pleated skirt with ruffled lace peeking out and baby pink boots. The visualiser has 2.7M views within a week of its release.
The Spanish singer has accumulated ten number-one singles in her home country, the most for a local artist, as well as a Grammy and a whopping 11 Latin Grammy awards. Last year she received international acclaim for her album Motomami, which peaked at number 33 on the US Billboard 200.
Meanwhile, the singer Chlöe is taking us to church with her fiery new song ‘Pray It Away’, which was dropped on 27th January with a sexy music video. Some of our favourite artists gave Chlöe love for the single on her Instagram including Janelle Monae, SZA, Lil Nas X, and Doechii – and we can see why.
The gospel-inspired track has Chlöe asking God to help her forgive her ex and resist her hateful thoughts. Chlöe delivers a powerful vocal performance that R&B fans will adore. With a great beat, angelic backing vocals, and a memorable chorus it’s one you’ll find yourself singing along to in no time.
The video for the song already has nearly 2M providing very popular with fans of the R&B singer. Chlöe looks radiant kneeling in a white ruched off-the-shoulder wedding dress by the altar of a church lit by the light of hundreds of candles. With glitter tears streaming down her face and brown gloss on her lips, we wished we looked that good after a breakup. She swaps the wedding dress for a shorter mesh panelled corset number that allows her to throw herself around the church with passion. The standout look in the video is the fierce tight black PVC dress and pant combo Chlöe dons paired with a wide hat, chunky gold hoops, long leather gloves, and a plum lip – complete baddie energy.
The singer was first known as one half of Chloe x Halle, the R&B duo composed of herself and her sisters Halle Bailey. The sisters have a variety of accomplishments together having starred in TV show Grownish (as well as singing the theme song), appeared in several films and TV series respectively, charted at number 16 on Billboard 200 with their second album Ungodly Hour, earned several Grammy nominations, and performed as openers for Beyoncé’s Formations Tour and Jay Z & Bey’s On The Run II Tour. Could we be seeing them opening for Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour this year?
Now Chlöe’s going solo with her debut solo album In Pieces set to be released in March 2023. ‘Pray It Away’ is the lead single for the album with the previous four singles released last year being scrapped after the singer told her fans that the album had evolved past them in a tweet earlier this year. She told Billboard that when her sister went to London for around eight months to film the Disney live-action reboot of The Little Mermaid, that’s when she started work on the album saying, “I always have my sister’s support, and she will always have mine, no matter what we do together or individually”. We can’t wait to hear more!
Words By: Molly Sutherland
Header Image: @chloebailey
