Song of the Day - Tongue - MNEK

Today's track is from an artists who's one song I like...love...love so much that I always pay attention whenever he releases something new.  As I said in last week's New Music Fridays post, nothing I've heard really turned me on like More Than a Miracle.  One would think that from the promotion of this song, whatever record company invested in it thinks it's worthy of being a hit, and it's definitely the best I've heard from him, so who knows.  Check out the funky Tongue...

New Music Fridays, March 2nd, 2018 - A Hot Week of New Music

Much better!  After last week's less than stellar round of new music releases, this first Friday in March had me saving tunes all over the place.  I saved many tracks this week, and the mix of songs runs the gamut from sweet ballads to rap gems to funky beats and everything in between.  To top it off, as I ran through them a second and third time in preparing this post, all of the pieces fell into place, with five tunes worthy of spotlight and several honorable mentions, and even the ones that don't make either cut here I am looking forward to getting to know.  Check out this week's hot tunes:

Tongue - MNEK

It was just about two years ago that I discovered MNEK and his amazing neo-freestyle jam, More Than a Miracle.  Ever since then I've kept my eye out for new stuff from this mysterious singer, and though I've seen one or two in the time since, I haven't found anything that quite captured the magic of that song.  Well, the British singer has got a brand new track from hjis forthcoming debut solo set and though it's not quite the as good as the previous jam, it is good enough to warrant your attention. Tongue shows of the multiple talents of MNEK, with R&B and rap vocals and combines it with a clicky dance beat that's just, well, groovalicious!  Check out Tongue...

Good Vibes - ALMA, Tove Styrke

Finnish pop star ALMA has dropped a six-song mixtape called Heavy Rules, and this hot track from the record features the talents of Swedish singer/songwriter Tove Styrke.  The tune is pure pop pleasure and it surely deserves to be heard.  Check out the track on YouTube or the entire mixtape below:

No Excuses - Meghan Trainor

There's no doubt that Meghan Trainor has got a knack for writing and performing catchy catchy pop songs, and this debut single off her forthcoming third album is more of the same sassy stuff we've become accustomed to from the popstress.  Check out No Excuses...

Beautiful - What So Not, Winona Clark

I'm not sure if it's the name of the song or the artist, but this one was hard to find on the Internet!  Nevertheless, we've got a great, middle of the night dance floor jam on our hands here.  Beautiful has got nice ethereal vocals set to some slamming beats.  Check out Beautiful...

War Paint - Frankie Simone

Brash and open Portland-based, and lesbian, singer Frankie Simone has put out an immediately likable tune that reminds me a lot of an old Adam and the Ants tune combined with some other 80's new wavy pop.  The chant is catchy and the drumbeats catchier and yeah, the video is pretty hard not to watch, too!  Check out War Paint... 

Good stuff, for sure!  As promised, here are this week's honorable mentions, all worth checking out:

Black Car - Miriam Bryant

Need You - Flight Facilities, NIKA 

Run - TV Noise, Drew Love

Pum Pum - Messiah, Kap G, Play-N-Skillz

Put Me Back Together - Cheat Codes, Kiiara

Powerglide - Rae Sremmurd, Juicy J

Magic - Rudy Mancuso, Maia Mitchell

Dancer - Flo Rida

Best of 2016 Song of the Day - More Than a Miracle - MNEK

If the mountains could be moved for you,

And the ocean could be split right through

It still wouldn't be enough for you,

It's true, it's true, it's true!

If I told you sweet nothings everyday

I'd trip up on every word I say

One step closer, yet still miles away

I pray at night, I pray

One of my favorite tunes of 2016 comes from a singer I know very little about, except his name...and his voice.  Earlier in the year, MNEK released a song I immediately LOVED and upon listening to it again this morning, I am sure I'll be listening to it much more later today and in the next few weeks. More Than a Miracle is combination soul/R&B/dance, with a definitive freestyle sound to it. Unfortunately there's no vid for the tune, but you can here it right here...

Song of the Day - More Than a Miracle - MNEK

If the mountains could be moved for you

And the ocean could be split right through

It still wouldn't be enough for you

It's true, it's true, it's true

If I told you sweet nothings every day

I'd trip up on every word I say

Once I'm closer you're still miles away

I pray at night, I pray

Here's a recent discovery that's a shameful bit of mystery.  What I mean by that it's one of those songs that's got no Wikipedia entry, and so it probably isn't going to get too much attention, but it soooo deserves to!  I have no idea who MNEK is, nor anything about the origins of More Than a Miracle, but I've been listening to it practically non-stop for a few days now and I just have to share it.  The lyrics to the song are beautiful, no doubt, but what really makes if for me is the crescendo of the chorus.  The beats that go along with it hearken to some of the great freestyle beats that were so popular in the 80's and you can't help but move to it.  Like yesterday's song by Nick Jonas, there's no video available for the tune, but nonetheless it is so worth a listen, especially if you love to dance...

That shattered glass broken on the floor

Is like my hand linking into yours

To get us back to where we were before

It's gonna take more than a miracle

Baby, your touch will never be the same

Only a higher power can stop the rain

For my blood to give any more

It's gonna take more than a miracle

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