Red Velvet，全新迷你专辑《Birthday》11月28日发行！
席卷秋季歌谣界的丰美音乐世界！共收录魅力多样的5首歌曲！
Red Velvet(SM ENTERTAINMENT所属)于11月28日发行全新迷你专辑《'The ReVe Festival 2022 - Birthday'》。
本张专辑是Red Velvet所展开的音乐盛典'The ReVe Festival 2022'的第二张专辑，继今年3月第一张专辑《Feel My Rhythm》创下韩国唱片和音乐排行榜第一，iTunes TOP专辑排行榜全球41个地区第一，中国QQ音乐数字专辑销量榜第一的记录，荣登为“春季女王”之后，这次也有望再一次席卷歌谣界。
而Red Velvet通过组合及SOLO、小分队、合作曲等多样活动，证明了其宽广的音乐领域和独特的概念消化能力，在演技、综艺、MC、DJ等各领域展现出多才多艺的魅力，广受大众喜爱，因此本张专辑将展现出的全新面貌也令人无比期待。
主打曲《Birthday》，取样自乔治·格什温的《蓝色狂想曲》！
Red Velvet X 古典乐再现“梦幻组合”！
主打曲《Birthday》是一首以节奏感十足的鼓点配合清爽的Synth Sound为亮点，以Trap节奏为基调的流行舞曲。歌词告白“如果和我在一起，每一天都会像生日一样愉快”，叙写回到喜欢之人的生日，帮他实现一切想象和期盼已久的愿望，送上难以忘怀的一天的故事。
尤其对乔治·格什温《蓝色狂想曲》的采样使歌曲更具魅力，继采样自巴赫《G弦上的咏叹调》的《Feel My Rhythm》之后，Red Velvet再一次预告了与古典乐梦幻般的碰撞，预计能够获得歌迷的强烈反响。
《BYE BYE》是一首有活力的Gliding Bass和略带阴森氛围的弦乐音效绝妙融为一体的R&B流行舞曲。歌词表达向恋人平淡地提出分手，决心不再被爱情左右的内容。无心而清冷的歌声使歌曲更具成熟魅力。
而《过山车 (On A Ride)》是一首轻快的节奏上顺畅的Pluck Sound令人印象深刻的Hyperpop舞曲。歌词描述因为中意之人既心动又混乱的内心，将这种心情比喻为坐过山车的瞬间，仿佛来到游乐园一般，营造出生动而梦幻般的氛围。
除此之外，还有将把说谎的恋人的行踪和证据一一揭穿的场景描写得紧张刺激的歌词配合Red Velvet爽朗而霸气的歌声，令人印象深刻的R&B流行舞曲《ZOOM》；表达想要回到过去，永远留在喜欢之人生日的惋惜心情，以中速R&B抒情曲诠释的《Celebrate》，共5首歌曲，足以一览专属于Red Velvet多样的音乐色彩。

WE'RE SO EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU THE NEWS THAT OUR SECOND RECORD 'COEXIST' WILL BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 10TH. AFTER A LONG TIME ON THE ROAD, WE TOOK A BREAK, CREATED OUR OWN STUDIO AND WROTE THESE NEW SONGS THAT WE'RE SO LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING TO YOU. WE WILL BE TOURING THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER AND BEYOND, AND HOPE TO PLAY SOMEWHERE NEAR YOU SOON. XX THE XX

2019年末、配信限定で「何なんw」「もうええわ」がリリースされると、アーバンなサウンドに乗った岡山弁の歌詞(一人称が「ワシ」)が世間の度肝を抜き、サブスク上位へランクイン、プレイリスターからの賞賛など、たちまちシーンのど真ん中へ浮上した藤井 風。
同曲のMusic VideoがYouTubeへ公開されると、耳の早いリスナーだけでなく、様々なジャンルのクリエイター陣も彼の才能に気づき始め、話題となった。
作詞作曲は全曲「藤井 風」。サウンドプロデュースには「Tokyo Recordings」の主宰として数々のアーティストをプロデュースする「Yaffle」氏を迎え、ファーストアルバムにして2020年を代表する名盤が誕生した。

You would have to have been asleep for the first half of 2022—or at least far away from an R&B playlist—to not have heard “Hrs & Hrs”, the love-drunk centrepiece of Muni Long’s 2021 EP Public Displays of Affection. The song took singer-songwriter Long—who has writing credits for Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande, among others—from the studio to the stage and made Public Displays of Affection Too one of the most anticipated projects in R&B. Long proves “Hrs & Hrs” to have been but a preview of her innate ability to chronicle Black love with pinpoint accuracy, singing across her EP sequel about how easy it is to replace an unwilling lover (“Another”), the potency of her lovemaking abilities (“Crack”) and the level of material items her attention is worth (“Cartier”). Her writing career may have already established her as successful, but it is her time in front of the mic, telling her own stories, that now foretells a long and promising career speaking for all the women who were already mesmerised by the end of “Hrs & Hrs”.

I never learned how to swim. In years of sailing, I never let the water touch me. The ocean was an abstract dread, an obliterating void as untenable as outer space.
In January 2018 we went on tour. After years of scraping by, we found our footing with our fourth record 'Yours Conditionally'. It was a commercial success that set us up to to play the biggest rooms of our career. But three shows in, I developed a raging case of influenza. Each night I dragged myself onstage and croaked out the set in a delirium. After a particularly bad sound-check, Patrick asked me if we should cancel the show. I couldn’t imagine giving up the thing we’d work so hard to achieve. “I’ll be on stage even if you have to mic my coffin,” I joked.
The next morning I fainted and had a seizure while grocery shopping for breakfast. Patrick carried me through the check-out lanes screaming for a doctor. I woke later in a hospital bed. Patrick leaned over me, crying. “That’s it,” he said. “I’m canceling the tour. I thought you were dead. We’re quitting the band. I’m going to be an accountant.” But I was on the mend. We missed two shows and pressed on.
During sound check at the 930 club, Patrick stepped out to take a phone call. His father had been in the hospital all week, but he had cancer and brief hospitalisations were routine. Back at the hotel that night, Patrick poured two shots of whiskey and handed me one. “I’d like to toast my dad.” He said. “The doctors offered to put him on life-support to give me a chance to fly out there, but I didn’t want him to suffer. Instead I said goodbye.”
Patrick went home to grieve with his family and rejoined us on the road two days later. I couldn’t believe how quickly our lives had unraveled in the midst of what was supposed to be a milestone in our career. As the tour continued, we found refuge in playing music together. Songwriting had always been an extension of our inner world. Now we retreated to that world every time we stepped onstage.
After the final show of our tour in Austin, we received another phone call. Patrick’s mother Karen was in the hospital on the brink of a stroke. We got on a plane and went straight to her bedside. Her recovery took weeks. In the hospital waiting room, I wrote the opening line of 'Matrimony II': I only have certainty when you hold my hand.
On a hot July day, after Karen’s return to good health, we sailed as a family into the Pacific and scattered Edward’s ashes at sea. I marked our position on the chart with a small x. The album was already well under way. In that moment, I realised what I wanted to call it.
Swimmer is a tour of the darkest time in our lives. But it is not a dark record. Named for the feeling of suspension and upendedness that characterised this period, it is the story of deep-rooted companionship strengthened by pain and loss. These songs carried us through our grief. It is us at our most vulnerable, so we kept a small footprint, recording everything ourselves in our home studio. I set out to describe the love I have come to know after ten years of marriage, when you can no longer remember your life before that person, when the spark of early attraction has been replaced by a gravitational pull.

英国斯里兰卡裔说唱女皇M.I.A.将于2022年重磅回归，发行她的第六张个人录音室专辑《MATA》。据悉，第一支单曲已确定将会在五月底释出。
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《Midnights》是美国创作歌手泰勒丝的第十张录音室专辑，于2022年10月21日通过Republic唱片发行。泰勒丝在8月28日举行的2022年MTV音乐录影带颁奖晚会上首次公开了这张专辑。