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    11 Blue Songs That Won’t Leave You Blue (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; AcatXIo, elitedigitalpereira, KoldFlame, Raman Spirydonau, Vanessa SG from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    11 Blue Songs That Won’t Leave You Blue | Playlist 🎧

    11 Blue Songs That Won’t Leave You Blue features songs by Billie Eilish, Cigarettes After Sex, Cybertrash, Kendrick Lamar, and Zach Bryan.

    By the musical hype, 2 monthsMarch 26, 2025 ago
    11 Babe or Baby Songs Poised to Tickle Your Fancy (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner; Wendel Natan from Pexels]
    Evergreen

    11 Babe or Baby Songs Poised to Tickle Your Fancy | Playlist 🎧

    11 Babe or Baby Songs Poised to Tickle Your Fancy features songs by Chappell Roan, Donna Summer, Lil Nas X, NLE Choppa, and Tommy Richman.

    By the musical hype, 7 monthsOctober 14, 2024 ago
    13 Songs Filled with HURT (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Anh Nguyen, Azra Tuba Demir, Ron Lach from Pexels]
    Evergreen

    13 Songs Filled with HURT | Playlist 🎧

    13 Songs Filled with HURT features music by Dan Jarman, Jazmine Sullivan, John Mellencamp, Lizzo, Reneé Rapp, and Teddy Pendergrass.

    By the musical hype, 9 monthsAugust 9, 2024 ago
    13 Marvelous MOVIE Songs (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; cottonbro studio, Ketut Subiyanto, Pavel Danilyuk, Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels; Bruno, OpenClipart-Vectors, Stephan from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    13 Marvelous MOVIE Songs | Playlist 🎧

    13 Marvelous MOVIE Songs features music by Avenoir, BTS, Cigarettes After Sex, Jack Harlow, Megan Thee Stallion, and ØZI.

    By the musical hype, 10 monthsJuly 24, 2024 ago
    Bops That Pop: June 2024 [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; agoss, allysonmiller1969, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, David, M. Harris, Mohamed_hassan, succo from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    Bops That Pop: June 2024 | Playlist 🎧

    Bops That Pop: June 2024 features music courtesy of Billie Eilish, Cole Redding, Halsey, Moses Sumney, Sabrina Carpenter, and Tommy Richman.

    By the musical hype, 11 monthsJune 28, 2024 ago
    Cigarettes After Sex, Baby Blue Movie [📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Spanish Prayers / Partisan; Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Królestwo Nauki, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pete Linforth, Tumisu from Pixabay]
    Music

    Cigarettes After Sex, Baby Blue Movie | Song Review 🎵

    Greg Gonzalez and Cigarettes After Sex mesmerize once again with “Baby Blue Movie,” the unique third single from X’s.

    By the musical hype, 11 monthsJune 12, 2024 ago
    Bops That Pop: March 2024 [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; agoss, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Lynda Smith, Mohamed_hassan, succo from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    Bops That Pop: March 2024 | Playlist 🎧

    Bops That Pop: March 2024 features music courtesy of Ariana Grande, Ben Platt, SZA, St. Vincent, twenty one pilots, and Vampire Weekend.

    By the musical hype, 1 yearMarch 29, 2024 ago
    11 More Songs Fueled by NOTHING (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Sarah Richter from Pixabay]
    Evergreen

    11 More Songs Fueled by NOTHING | Playlist 🎧

    11 More Songs Fueled by NOTHING features music courtesy of Billy Preston, Madison Beer, MGMT, Sinéad O’Connor, and Whitney Houston.

    By the musical hype, 1 yearMarch 11, 2024 ago
    Cigarettes After Sex, Tejano Blue [📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Spanish Prayers / Partisan; Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Królestwo Nauki, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pete Linforth, Tumisu from Pixabay]
    Music

    Cigarettes After Sex, Tejano Blue | Song Review 🎵

    Greg Gonzalez and his ambient pop collective, Cigarettes After Sex, shine on “Tejano Blue,” the promo single from their third LP, X’s.

    By the musical hype, 1 yearMarch 7, 2024 ago
    Cigarettes After Sex, “Pistol” [📷: Spanish Prayers / Partisan]
    Music

    Cigarettes After Sex, “Pistol” | Track Review 🎵

    Alternative collective Cigarettes After Sex returns after a two-year hiatus with a truly marvelous, relatable single, “Pistol.”

    By the musical hype, 2 yearsNovember 21, 2022 ago
    🎧 21 Songs About the Universal, 3-Letter Word, SEX [📷: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Felipe Sodré, Hoang-Loc Dang, Ketut Subiyanto, Los Muertos Crew, Mikhail Nilov, The Musical Hype, Néo Rioux, Pexels, Tazz Vaughn, Wendel Sales]
    Evergreen

    21 Songs About the Universal, 3-Letter Word, SEX | Playlist 🎧

    🎧 21 Songs About the Universal, 3-Letter Word, SEX features Alex Angelo, George Michael, Megan Thee Stallion, Madonna & Mike Taveira.

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsJanuary 18, 2022 ago
    Cigarettes After Sex, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”: After Dark No. 4 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Cigarettes After Sex, cottonbro from Pexels, KoolShooters from Pexels, Luan Queiros from Pexels, The Musical Hype]
    Columns

    Cigarettes After Sex, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” | After Dark 🕛 🌃

    On the 4th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, sexual vibes behind, “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by Cigarettes After Sex.

    By the musical hype, 3 yearsJanuary 14, 2022 ago

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