Hello and welcome to the twelfth Future Pop mailer from This Must Be Pop! Future Pop is a weekly email featuring the hottest new pop songs and artists that you need to know about. If you haven’t subscribed yet then do so here, then read on, listen up and make sure you tweet me @poptastic to let me know what you think of my picks!
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Future Stars
Ready Set Go
Ready Set Go are a teen rock-pop group who recently signed to Warner Bros in the US, and posted the cutest video to announce it. They are three brothers and one sister aged between 12 and 18, the girl (Sydney, 14) being the Taylor Swift-esque lead singer. The two older boys, Noah (15) and Jamie (18), should appeal to the teen girl fans, but I think they stand a good chance of reaching a broader fanbase too as they have genuine musical talent, playing instruments and writing their own songs. The Hanson of the 2010s, perhaps?
Tinashe
Well, this is confusing – Tinashe is a new US female artist, who will not be appreciated by the UK male artist Tinashé if she becomes successful! Tinashe the girl was lead singer of a group called
The Stunners (formed by
Vitamin C!) from 2007 to 2010 and now, age 19, is launching a solo career. She is planning to release a mixtape with the lead single
Chainless already on iTunes. It’s a bit serious R&B for my tastes (I prefer the sweeter, poppier
Can’t Say No) but she’s clearly got huge popstar potential.
L Marshall was featured simply as L on Wretch 32’s Traktor, singing the hook of the song, and he also wrote Loick Essien’s hit How We Roll. He’s now signed up to Crown management and recently released his first
mixtape for free online. The promotional single for the mixtape is called
The Wait, and it caught my attention as it’s a very interesting and original R&B track, which is certainly on trend at the moment thanks to Tinie Tempah and Labrinth. I actually think it’s my favourite of this sub-genre, after the Labrinth-penned Love Drunk by Loick Essien.
Future Hits
This week’s playlist is made up of songs that I think are going to put previous Future Pop picks on the map!
Tracklisting:
- DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora – Hot Right Now
- Angel ft. Wretch 32 – Go In, Go Hard
- Ariana Grande – Put Your Hearts Up
- Sub Focus ft. Kenzie May – Falling Down
- Scissor Sisters ft. Krystal Pepsy (Azealia Banks) – Shady Love
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