Megan Thee Stallion is back with a vengeance on her latest album drop, ‘Traumazine’. The pop-culture juggernaut is still doing hot girl shit, though this time with an edge we’ve never seen from her before. In NME’s four-star review, we highlighted that though “the album features more deep cuts than you’d expect from a Megan Thee Stallion record, it shows just how she’s pushed her pen since ‘Good News’, while also illustrating her broad musicality”.
The record’s house banger ‘Her’ is our latest addition to the NME Radio A List this week; alongside other additions including the second preview to Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ highly anticipated comeback album, a highlight from Kasabian’s latest project, and new tunes from Dog Race, PVA, PinkPantheress and Sam Gellaitry and more.
Here’s what we’ve added to NME 1 and 2 this week.
On the A List:
Megan Thee Stallion
‘Her’
As Drake’s and Beyonce’s 2022 releases seem to suggest, hip-hop is set on bringing house music back to the spotlight. With ‘Her’, Megan Thee Stallion throws her gauntlet in the house revival. Against a thumping bassline, Megan boasts of her impeccable style in bouncy bars like “Hoes must’ve just seen me and they playin’ catch-up / Bitches lookin’ like lil’ Megans playin’ dress-up”.
In true Megan Thee Stallion fashion, all this culminates in a bouncing hook bound to draw every eye in the room to herself: “I’m her… / She… / Take a pic, it’s me… / Tell your friends this her…”. – Eli Ordonez
Listen: Spotify | Apple Music
On the B List:
