Heartless 🚫❤️ | 5ive Songs

1. Morgan Wallen “Heartless”

💿 Dangerous: The Double Album • 🏷 Big Loud / Republic • 📅 2021

🎵 “Heartless – Wallen Album Mix” appears late on 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album, the 2021 sophomore album by country standout 🎙 Morgan Wallen.  In the context of the album, if much of side two lacks that bridge to pop/crossover appeal, “Heartless” provides that bridge.  It’s slickly produced (🎛 Joey Moi), well written, and Wallen sings in beastly fashion.

The chorus just screams crowd pleaser.  Well, there’s probably a reason why that chorus is crowd-pleasing. The original version of “Heartless” appeared on the 2020 🎙 Diplo album, 💿 Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil.  In addition to Wallen guesting on that album’s penultimate track, 🎙 Julia Michaels also appears.

2. The Weeknd, “Heartless”

💿 After Hours • 🏷 Republic • 📅 2020

“I’ve been runnin’ through the pussy, need a dog pound / Hundred models getting’ faded in the compound.” 🏆 Grammy-winning Canadian R&B superstar 🎙 The Weeknd remains true to self on 🎵 “Heartless” – cold as ice!  On this 💿 After Hours standout, he sings about the fast life.  He kicks off the first verse singing, “Never need a bitch, I’m what a bitch need.” He doubles down on the second verse: “So much pussy, it be fallin’ out the pocket / Metro Boomin turn this ho into a mosh pit / Tesla pill got me flyin’ like a cockpit.”

Besides those badass, cocky lyrics, The Weekend has an incredibly sleek backdrop to work with courtesy of 🎛 Metro Boomin and 🎛 Illangelo.  The beat pummels while they synths are equally potent.  Combine that with confident, distinct, and unapologetic vocals from Tesfaye, and “Heartless” is nothing short of a surefire bop.

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3. Polo G, “Heartless”

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💿 THE GOAT • 🏷 Columbia • 📅 2020

“My youngins heartless, so they ain’t playin’ no games / We really want ‘em dead, he got hit up close range…” 🎵 “Heartless” appears as the second track off of 💿 THE GOAT, the highly successful 2020 studio album by 🎙 Polo G.  Expectedly, given the ‘heartless’ title, Polo brings toughness and real talk to his performance (“I used to starve, now I’m blowing up like propane / Told my inner self, ‘I promise you I won’t change’”).  That said, he does so melodically. Ah, the new breed of rapper.

Heartless as he may be – hard-nosed is a better choice of words – he spits with ease, and a degree of smoothness, over sleek, minor-key production courtesy of 🎛 Mustard.

4. Madison Beer, “HeartLess”

💿 As She Pleases • 🏷 Access • 📅 2018 

The name of the heartless song by pop singer 🎙 Madison Beer isn’t ‘heartless,’ it’s 🎵 “HeartLess.” I know what you’re thinking – what’s the difference on the third track from her 2018 mini-album, 💿 As She Pleases? Well, Beer makes a different heart-driven assertion, one not nearly as cold as heartless-ness.  It begins with the verses where she asserts, “I want you bad, I want it that bad” (verse one) and later admits, “I love you too hard” (verse two).  It continues on the pre-chorus, where she states, “One, two, three, four, five too many times / I’ve been down this road too many nights.”

Finally, her brand of heartless-ness is confirmed on the chorus: “I should use my heart… less.”  Fittingly, “HeartLess” is set in a minor key, featuring sleek, moody production (in the style of urban pop) courtesy of 🎛 The Monsters & Strangerz and 🎛 German.

5. Kanye West, “Heartless”

💿 808s & Heartbreaks • 🏷 UMG Recordings, Inc. • 📅 2008

“In the night, I hear ‘em talk / The coldest story ever told / Somewhere far along this road / He lost his soul to a woman so heartless.” 🎙 Kanye West certainly helped to usher in the more melodic brand of rap in 2008 when he released his fourth studio album, 💿 808s & Heartbreak.  At the time, 808s was a shocking departure for West finding him moving away from traditional unpitched rhymes and opting for autotune vocals.

Nonetheless, he managed a couple of hits, led by the hella catchy 🎵 “Heartless.”  The centerpiece, unsurprisingly, is the aforementioned chorus.  Beyond that, the verses are pretty sweet, as is the minimalist production by himself and 🎛 No I.D.  Even more than a decade later, this is an awesome record.