This is what pop songs should sound like in the future – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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This is what pop songs should sound like in the future

Sam Smith's Stay With Me is all over the radio, and you're almost sure to have heard it by now. That's not a bad thing, per se. It's a perfectly fine song. There's just nothing especially new to it, since it's probably right to compare his sound to Adele and other pop-soul acts of the last decade. For those of us looking for something new, though, FKA twigs (who you might remember from last week's Weekender) took Smith's hit, and, by infusing some space-y, sexy trip-hop elements, blasted it into the future. The world needs more of this and in a hurry.

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