Song of the Day - Intentions - Justin Bieber, Quavo

Okay, before I get any flack for posting Justin Bieber, check out the song.  It's pretty good!  Here's Intentions...

Song of the Day - 10,000 Hours - Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber

Here's a sweet and tender ballad by country music duo Dan + Shay, featuring guest vocals by Justin Bieber.  It's a song I really didn't want to like, but it slowly creeped into my psyche and now I simply love it!  Here's 10,000 Hours...

Song of the Day - Cold Water - Major Lazer, Justin Bieber, MO

Haven't heard this one in awhile.  

Song of the Day - I Don't Care _ Ed Sheeran, Justin Biever

It was only a week ago that this super duper collaboration was first released to the listening public and it didn't take long to catch on.  The video came out just a couple of days ago and is as fun as the light-hearted song is.  Check out I Don't Care...

Song of the Day - Sorry - Justin Bieber

Good morning and Happy Sunday to all of you wonderful people out there!  Here's another happy dance tune for you to brighten up your day.  Check out Sorry...

New Music Fridays: August 18th, 2017 - The Week's Hottest New Tracks

Hello and welcome back to John's Music World New Music Fridays.  This is an above-par week for new music, with some great new dance tracks that are immediately likable on first listen, as well as some new Miley Cyrus, The Vamps, and of course, the Biebs.  Check out this week's picks...

Friends - Justin Bieber, featuring Bloodpop

It's been awhile since Justin Bieber has put anything out on his own, though he's been doing just fine singing along on other artist's songs.  Well, this week Justin releases a brand new single with Bloodpop that's more of the same great pop/dance/R&B we've come to know, with pleasant melodies nice vocals, and an easy to learn chorus.  Take a listen...

Younger Now - Miley Cyrus

The new Miley just released the third single from her upcoming album of the same title, and like the previous two, Malibu and Inspired, this one's a ballad with beautiful melodies and equally beautiful lyrics and vocals.  Check out the tender Younger Now...

Water Me - Lizzo

My favorite new release of the week is fast, funky and it's got a whole lotta positivity going on.  Oh yeah, this one, by full-figured singer Lizzo, is a fun three minutes of funk that got me on the first listen.  Check it out...

Gold - Camden Cox

Yet another funky dance track released this week, Camden Cox's Gold is nothing but.  Very likable, a lot of fast-moving fun with some nice boom-y beats.  Take a listen...

Can't Resist - Halogen, feat. Adriana Gomez & Lub X tpf

I told you this week's picks are full of hot new dance tracks and this one, by Halogen, is another bass-driven dance floor filler with nice dueling vocals between Adrianna Gomez and Lub X tpf.  Very hot tune! Take a listen... 

So there you have it, my top five new music picks for the week.  As always, I hope that you've found something here to whet your appetite for new music, and actually these aren't the only good songs to come out this week.  Here's a list of honorable mentions that I am sure you can find on YouTube if you so choose:

Gravitation - Petit Biscuit

Heatwave - Amber Mark

What We Do - Aexcit

Wicked Ways - Saba Abraha

Check them out...they'er all worth a listen!

Song of the Day - Love Yourself - Justin Bieber

My mama don't like you and she likes everyone

Good morning from the beautiful city  of Toronto.  Like the cheeseball I am, as soon as we hit the Canadian border I wanted to play music of Canadian artists.  Of course one of the first ones I thought of was the Biebs, and so today's Song of the Day... 

Song of the Day - 2U - David Guetta, feat. Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber, for not having a new album of his own, has been keeping really busy in the time since his 2015 Purpose record.  His latest guest vocal is with legendary deejay/producer David Guetta, and the result is yet another dance/pop smoothie that will most likely be heard...a lot! Check out 2U...

Song of the Day - I'm the One - DJ Khalid, featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne

Here's a perfect song to fit a perfect day, here in New York anyway.  It's a brand new jam by DJ Khalid and featuring a who's who in today's rap and R&B world.  Check out the smooth, easy breezy I'm the One... 

Song of the Day - Despacito - Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, featuring Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber singing in Spanish!  The other day some of my students were looking at a music video on one of their phones and laughing as they watched.  I immediately recognized the voice and that's exactly what they were laughing at, but you know what?  Like everything else the Biebs does these days, it works.  Check out this brand new hot track...

Song of the Day - Sorry - Justin Bieber

I spent the weekend in Philadelphia and I heard this song a couple of times in the clubs down there. I've had it in my head ever since.Such a fun song!  

Song of the Day - Let Me Love You - DJ Snake, feat. Justin Bieber

Here is yet another quality Justin Bieber guest spot on a song, this time with French deejay/producer DJ Snake.  Pretty darned catchy...

Song of the Day - Cold Water - Major Lazer, feat. Justin Bieber & MO

I first posted this one back in July and it's grown on me even more in the weeks since.  Great lyric, nice vocals, great tune!  Enjoy!

Song of the Day - Cold Water - Major Lazer, feat. Justin Bieber & MO

Major Lazer and Justin Bieber are two of the biggest acts on the dance music scene and just yesterday they released this collaboration that is a smooth, grooving track that has already become and instant hit.  Check out Cold Water...

Song of the Day - Sorry - Justin Bieber

Do you ever just wake up with a song in your head?

Song of the Day - Love Yourself - Justin Bieber

If you like, the way, you look so much
Then you should go and love yourself

I finally broke down after hearing this one and bought Justin Bieber's new album Purpose.  Let me tell you, I am loving all of what I;ve been hearing from The Biebs lately.  Though I and many others have found plenty of disdain for the young phenom in the past, there is no denying that he is talented. His voice fits perfectly into the R&B mode, and both the rhythms and the vocals on many of the songs on this album are very pleasing to the ears, including Love Yourself, an in your face put down of someone in his life whose selfish, conceited and destructive personality is one which we could all probably relate to from our own experiences.  Check out the soulful Love Yourself...  

Song of the Day - Sorry - Justin Bieber

The Biebs is back and hot this week with the all-new Sorry, a mid to high tempo track with a light-hearted, dancey tone.  Not as good as What Do You Mean?, but not too shabby either.  Check it out...

Summer Jams Song of the Day - What Do You Mean? - Justin Bieber

I have to say that slowly, at least in the past couple of months, I'm becoming a, gulp, Belieber.  That's right, I said it.  I am actually starting to like Justin Bieber...just a little, but still.  Though I haven't seen the VMA's yet (to me they are no longer relevant to my world anyway), last night's show saw two performances by him, one of which is this, his latest project for which he released this video for not long after the show had ended.

Clearly, Bieber is no longer a child prodigy, he is now a bona fide adult, both thematically and musically.  I'll let you judge the former for yourself by watching the steamy video below, in which the self-anointed senior gets quite steamy with model Xenia Deli, Calvins and all, but for me, as always, it is the music.  It all started with Bieber's vocal appearance on the Skrillex - Diplo collaboration Where Are You Now?

When I first heard that one, I'll admit that I did take note of the rhythm and bluesish vocals without knowing it was he that was singing, and I loved it.  What Do You Mean? seems to take up where that one left off, with a soothing, almost island-jammish, melody and the same kind of soft, tender vocals that appear in the other tune.  Pretty catchy, too.  So if you haven't seen it yet, click play below and check out What Do You Mean?

Summer Jams Song of the Day - Where Are Ü Now - Skrillex & Diplo, with Justin Bieber

At first listen, you'd think this song was down and out R&B, but eventually you ease into the island rhythms and dancey beats and realize it's so much more than that.  This Skrillex/Diplo/Bieber collaboration is actually a marvelous concoction of several different genres of music, and is pretty hot right now, too.  Take a listen...