Songs (singles + tracks) of various styles are reviewed in this section of The Musical Hype. Songs are assigned a rating between 0 and 5 stars.
![Shawn Mendes, Illuminate [📷 : Island]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shawn-mendes-illuminate-island.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Canadian pop artist Shawn Mendes shines on “Ruin,” a soulful, memorable, and well-written single that shows him maturing and “stepping up his game.”
![Kanye West, The Life of Pablo [📷: G.O.O.D. / Def Jam]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/kanye-west-the-life-of-pablo-def-jam.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Kanye West is one of the world’s most polarizing musicians. West’s controversial track “Famous,” along with its equally controversial video confirms such.
![Fergie, Double Dutchess [📷: BMG Rights Management]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fergie-double-dutchess.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
It seems as if Fergie has been trying to ‘reclaim her status’ for a couple of years. “M.I.L.F.$” is the latest attempt at her comeback.
On infectious single “For Free,” DJ Khaled – with a mighty assist from Drake – have their minds on one thing only – awesome sex.
Country singer/former Survivor finalist Chase Rice returns with a single from his forthcoming album, entitled “Everybody We Know Does.”
Ingrid Michaelson’s singles “Hell No” and “Light Me Up” foreshadow the potential greatness of forthcoming album, ‘It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense.’
What makes Jasmin Stone so special? She offers something different and different is what the music world is starving for these days, particularly stateside. “Time” exceptionally introduces Stone to a new audience.
The best way to characterize the new Bastille single, “Good Grief,” the first single from sophomore LP, Wild World? It’s infectious!
Although quite loud, “Better Love” – the lead single from the motion picture, ‘The Legend of Tarzan’ – is epic and shows why Hozier is an intriguing artist.
Alicia Keys latest single “Hallelujah” is respectable, but not the “second coming.” “Hallelujah” likely isn’t a ‘pop’ hit. Still, there’s something here.
Continually rising Maryland rapper Logic ‘flexes hard’ on “Flexicution,” a record filled with braggadocio to the nth degree.
In no ways does Usher “crash and burn” on new single “Crash,” but neither does he make us yearn for his return to the music world.