{"id":1887231,"date":"2026-04-17T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1887231"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:36:51","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-sombr-nine-inch-noize-more-new-friday-music-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1887231","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo, sombr, Nine Inch Noize & More: New Friday Music Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tBillboard\u2019s\u00a0Friday Music Guide\u00a0serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday\u2019s most essential releases each week \u2014 the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tLast week, we featured Lady Gaga & Doechii, The Strokes and KATSEYE. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThis week, Olivia Rodrigo swerves wtih her third album\u2019s misleadingly titled first single, sombr straps on the vocoder, Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize make their partnership streaming-official \u2014\u00a0plus much more. Check out all of this week\u2019s picks below.<\/p>\n

Olivia Rodrigo, \u201cDrop Dead\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tFew artists can command as much attention and interest with the start of a new album era as Olivia Rodrigo, whose sense of quality control and purposefulness with her music is almost without peer among the new pop star class of this decade. So all eyes and ears will certainly be on \u201cDrop Dead\u201d this week, as the first taste of June\u2019s upcoming You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love<\/em> LP. And despite having a title that would seem to place it in line with the furious heartbreak of prior lead singles \u201cDrivers License\u201d and \u201cVampire,\u201d \u201cDrop Dead\u201d quickly turns out to be a misdirect: The song is a lush and swoony but still propulsive love song about a first-night\u2019s infatuation (as in \u201cKiss me and I might drop dead\u201d), with The Cure\u2019s namechecked (and previously Rodrigo-covered) \u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d providing its guiding light. The new sound and vibe should get fans even more pumped for OR3, and seems all but certain to be one of the year\u2019s biggest and most acclaimed pop-rock songs. <\/p>\n

sombr, \u201cPotential\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tsombr debuted his new single at his then-untitled Weekend One Coachella performance, flanked with a number of ballerinas (who he referred to as the \u201csombrinas\u201d), teasing that the song would be out Apr. 17. Well, here we are, and here it is: \u201cPotential\u201d features more of the discofied sound sombr has been exploring since last year\u2019s hit \u201c12 to 12,\u201d with more heartbroken lyrics, a callback to his 2025 mega-success (\u201cIt was a difficult breakup\/ But I wrote some songs that got me famous\u201d) and some Random Access Memories<\/em> Daft Punk-style vocoder warbling. Another winner, basically. (And yes, that is The Summer I Turned Pretty<\/em>\u2018s Gavin Casegano starring alongside sombr and U.K. influencer Madeline Argy in the video; guy just can\u2019t keep himself away from love triangle situations.)<\/p>\n

Nine Inch Noize, Nine Inch Noize<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tIf you couldn\u2019t make it out to the desert to catch Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize\u2018s collaborative set as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella last weekend, no worries \u2014\u00a0you\u2019ve got one more chance to catch them this Saturday. And failing that, we\u2019ve also now got Nine Inch Noize<\/em>, the self-titled team-up album that essentially recreates the set they delivered to the rabid Sahara Tent crowd on Saturday, with audible fan noise to help convey the live excitement. The tracklist includes new spins on NIN classics like \u201cCloser\u201d and \u201cCopy of A,\u201d as well as on fan favorites like \u201cShe\u2019s Gone Away\u201d and the Soft Cell cover \u201cMemorabilia,\u201d and closes with \u201cAs Alive as You Need Me to Be\u201d from TRON: Ares<\/em>, the teamup\u2019s 2025 rock airplay hit. \u201cListen LOUD,\u201d NIN\u2019s Trent Reznor advises in a press release, and rightly so. <\/p>\n

Lana Del Rey, \u201cFirst Light\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tA Lana Del Rey James Bond theme?? Well\u2026. sort of. \u201cFirst Light\u201d is LDR\u2019s theme to the new Bond video game of the same name, with no accompanying film yet in the offing. Still, don\u2019t expect her to pull up short on the epicness as a result: \u201cFirst Light\u201d goes impossibly hard with the strings, trumpets and overall drama, as Del Rey really sinks her teeth into the part \u2014\u00a0even having fun with the video game soundtrack part of it, with lyrics like \u201cDying just to know whether you\u2019ll play your life like a game,\u201d and a constant refrain of her asking \u201cWill you play?\u201d We\u2019re kind of intrigued, now. <\/p>\n

Tyla feat. Zara Larsson, \u201cShe Did It Again\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cClose enough, welcome back \u2018Can\u2019t Remember to Forget You’\u201d reads the top comment on the r\/Popheads thread for the new Tyla and Zara Larsson collab \u201cShe Did It Again.\u201d It makes sense as a comp to the Shakira and Rihanna near-classic, both with the geographically disparate teamup of South African star Tyla with Swedish phenom Zara Larsson, and the song\u2019s fun and flirty music video. Given the two hitmakers\u2019 penchant for going viral, this one is almost certain to catch fire at some point, and the song\u2019s chewy chorus and frisky chemistry make it more than just an algorithmic hit. <\/p>\n

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\n\tWant more of Rosal\u00eda\u2018s LUX<\/em>? Of course you do: As sumptuous and satisfying as Rosal\u00eda\u2019s 2025 opus was \u2014 our staff\u2019s No. 2-rated album for the entire year \u2014\u00a0there\u2019s always room for more of her towering vocals and soul-stirring arrangements in our lives. This week\u2019s Complete Works<\/em> digital reissue of the album adds three new songs previously only available on the album\u2019s physical edition, as well as a \u201cFrancotidora\u201d version of original album highlight \u201cDios es un Stalker.\u201d The most notable of the bunch is likely the soaring \u201cFocu \u2018Ranni,\u201d with its Passion Pit-like garbled-vocal refrain and its gorgeous climax, sung in Sicilian. <\/p>\n

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