An unearthed Tina Turner outtake and 9 more new songs

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“They say I’m a superstar / But oh, I still got this feeling in my bones,” Kane Brown sings, continuing to admit that success has pushed him almost too far: “Too many times I wanted to jump over the edge . / Think I’d be better off dead.” Jelly Roll responds with similar sentiments in triplets: “I think I was happier when I couldn’t pay the bills.” The music escalates from banjo picking to hard rock with a scathing lead guitar as the melancholy of fame rises. PARELES

A pretty amazing number of things happen in the roughly 140 seconds of this summer anthem released in the middle of winter. Creeping back into the limelight, Bruno Mars says to hell with eerily precise declarations of love – let’s get fornicated. The beat nods to hyphy, electro-funk and Kanye West’s chipmunk soul era. Sexyy Red arrives with a very obliging verse, a litany of sexual instructions so specific they make “WAP” sound like a Susan Boyle song. Towards the end of the video, there are walk-on cameos from Lady Gaga and Rosethe far more conventional duet partners with whom Mars has a few recent smashes but clearly wants some of this fractured delicacy for himself. By the end of the song, Mars’ excursion into sleaze funk turns into a full-on Sexyy Red chant-along, with the entire crew transformed into a louche league of lip-licking libertines. JON CARAMANICA

The breakout single from Florida rapper 1900 Rugrat is making a sprint — from TikTok freestyle in September to finished song later this month to viral On the Radar performance in October for this remix with dystopian shape-shifter Kodak Black. 1900Rugrat has a hauntingly raspy voice, a willingness to play with fun rhymes (see: tuba/scuba), and a fully formed sense of character, both gritty and delicate. Kodak Black, a rapper he’s clearly indebted to, joins him here, and instead of approaching the sleepy boom of a beat with the same pattern as the host, he begins to dismantle it, rapping in almost inscrutable double time, a troublemaker adds a new layer of mischief. CARAMANICA

British rap star Central Cee has a way of making extremely literal phrases and emotions sound nimble, fresh and deft. Take the opening couplet of “Gata,” a standout from his long-awaited debut studio album, “Can’t Rush Greatness”: “Is it me or GBP, I don’t know if she really wants Cee for Cee / It could be GIA’ ers or the G5 aircraft, I don’t know what the reason is.” Thrown triple rhymes delivered as casual chat are just part of what makes Central Cee so effective. This song, about the pleasures that come with fame and the more pleasant pleasures that fame makes you leave, shows a rapper with a beating heart, a sense of regret and the will to succeed even when those things get tough in him. CARAMANICA

In a clever collaboration, Lord Huron enlisted Kristen Stewart to deliver a monologue about a surreal, existential road trip. “Above me shone a terrifying number of stars that pronounced the cold indifference of the universe,” she says matter-of-factly. “I tried to stare at the road ahead. I saw a huge storm far off on the horizon.” Behind her, the band wails a riff and a drone, eventually offering a chorus, but it wisely delivers the last, dying words to Stewart. PARELES