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Another week, another batch of new songs from our favorite LGBTQ+ (and adjacent) musicians to add to your playlists!
Miley Cyrus continues her new album rollout with "More to Lose," David Archuleta enters his flirty era on "Can I Call You," singer-songwriter Jake Wesley Rogers is ready to sing "In The Key Of Love" on his debut album, and Kali Uchis releases her sixth studio album Sincerely.
And the collabs are stacked this week! Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams teamed up with Moses Sumney for "I Like It I Like It," Halsey and Amy Lee combine their powers for the Ballerina soundtrack, Doechii joins The Weeknd and Playboi Carti on a remix of "Timeless," and UMI and 6LACK face some "HARD TRUTHS" on their new R&B track.
Scroll through to listen to this week's best new bops, and follow this writer's New Music Friday playlist on Spotify.
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Miley Cyrus is otherworldly in her ethereal new ballad "More to Lose."
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Time to accept some hard truths with UMI and 6LACK's steamy new R&B track.
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Kali Uchis channels Old Hollywood in the morose music video for "All I Can Say."
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Jake Wesley Rogers's debut album has arrived, and "Happy Accidents" is just one of the stellar songs on In The Key of Love.
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Moses Sumney & Hayley Williams - I Like It I Like It [Lyric Video]
The duo we didn't know we needed? Moses Sumney and Hayley Williams show off some insane vocals on "I Like It I Like It."
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Maren Morris realizes she was always "too good for your ass anyway" on her new track.
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David Archuleta's flirty new track delivers a smooth guitar lick and his sultriest vocals.
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Halsey and Evanescence frontman Amy Lee revive the 2000s emo rock ballad for the film Ballerina.
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Rapper Cortisa Star brings the drama on her latest.
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Kesha joins k-pop group f5ve's for their banger "Sugar Free Venom."
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Ready to "Sweat"? Add Snow Wife's latest banger to your workout playlists!
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Latin superstar Karol G released a song to accompany her new Netflix film Tomorrow Was Beautiful.
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Kesha's latest is an A.G. Cook remix to "YIPEE-KI-YAY."
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Lord Huron - Looking Back (Official Video)
Lord Huron gets nostalgic on their latest single "Looking Back."
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Boyfriend and Jake Shears are ready to "FIGHT" on their new single.
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The Weeknd enlists Doechii for his latest remix of "Timeless."
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It feels illegal to make a song this good, but PinkPantheress did it anyway.
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Rio Romeo is heaven's most wanted on the playful new track "God's Got Something Out For Me"
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New pop girl? SAILORR is letting these "BITCHES BREW" on her aesthetic new music video.
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Fiona Apple says she "observed thousands of court hearings as a courtwatcher," which inspired her latest song "Pretrial ( Let Her Go Home)."
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Ballerina's fight scenes go even further than John Wick
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"But the in terms of, I'm glad you say her fighting is different because that was very important to me, I had no intention, or no interest, in creating a female John Wick. This is her own character and kick-a** and everything in her own right. but I never wanted to have Ana replicating what Keanu Reeves does. "Keanu is John Wick, he has a flavour and that's that's all John Wick. So I didn't want that, so I'm very glad that people are also receiving it that way. She has a different style that's all her own, and she has to. She has to be clever in her own ways to battle the dudes that she's up against." This made things interesting for Armas' co-stars like Norman Reedus, who plays fellow assassin Daniel Pine and had his fair share of action scenes that take ridiculous turns. "They're very choreographed fighting sequences," Reedus says of the intricacies of getting an action scene down in the John Wick franchise. 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You don't want to be like [a robot] of course you know: 'one, two count to three, four', but you also want to know it so that you can do it and not mess up that guy and that girl, and that explosion and this gun. There's a lot going on, it's fun." The person that brings the story together is Armas, who deftly takes the baton from Keanu Reeves to introduce a new chapter in the franchise. A lot rides on her shoulders to make the new film work, and according to her cast and crew mates that was not an easy task but one she achieved well. Wiseman says that Armas "adds so much" to the John Wick franchise, sharing that she has a quality that is so special it makes Eve an immediate standout. "She's a fantastic actor, but there's a quality that she has specifically that is just a gift to a director," he says. "And that is within a movie that is so physical, and the fights and the amount of training and preparation — she trained for months and months, just kicked her a** so that she could kick a** for everybody on screen —and the level that she was able to train and get that down, the performance to me within the fighting is so key. "Just the fire, the rage, everything you see, you're watching these really, really delicately choreographed sequences but I'm drawn more to her reaction to [it], it's the performance that she's giving. "It's not just remembering the beats of the choreography, which can often happen, there's such a driving performance in it that I would sit at the monitor and we'd go through and go [wow]. It's absolutely kicking a**, but she's also kicking a** with the performance that sometimes can get lost in sequences, so that for me was fantastic." 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The film also introduces Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Norman Reedus. Note: The next two sections include spoilers for 'Ballerina.' In From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, Ana de Armas' Eve is seeking revenge after the death of her father, Javier (David Castañeda), who was killed in an assassination attempt by his father-in-law and her grandfather, The Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne) a dozen years before. Javier was in hiding trying to protect his young daughter (Victoria Comte), whom The Chancellor solely wants to carry on the bloodline of his cultish 200-year-old crime organization that has no central location. After her father's death, Eve meets Winston (Ian McShane), who brings her to the theater/headquarters of the Ruska Roma, where The Director (Anjelica Huston) trains the young girl to not only become a ballerina, but an expert assassin. 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Since Ballerina takes place during the events of John Wick 3 — Parabellum (it's fun to see a recreation of one scene from the film from a different vantage point in Ballerina), there could conceivably be another World of John Wick prequel film for de Armas. From a creative standpoint, it could either be set before John Wick: Chapter 4 or take place during the events of it. In all likelihood, de Armas' Eve will end up in a sequel, just not one that's solely dedicated to the character. After all, Lionsgate already has its hands full with a forthcoming John Wick animated series as well as a World of John Wick film featuring Caine (Donnie Yen), the assassin who played a pivotal role in John Wick Chapter 4. As such, a Ballerina sequel would need to get in line with those two films and another big chapter in Wick's world. Instead, look for de Armas' ballerina assassin to turn up in Reeves' sequel, John Wick 5, which was announced at CinemaCon 2025 in April. 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'Ballerina' Deserves an Oscar Nod for Stunts—But It'll Never Get One
Jun 6, 2025 7:30 AM The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new Oscar category for stunt performers earlier this year. Unfortunately, none of the performers in the latest John Wick movie will qualify. Still from Ballerina. Photograph: Larry D. Horricks/Lionsgate If anyone knows how to take a fall, it's Cara Marie Chooljian. As a stunt performer in everything from Everything Everywhere All at Once to this Friday's Ballerina , she's used to taking blows and getting back up. There's just one blow she wishes she didn't have to take, at least not right now—that she won't win an Oscar. To be clear, it's not that she can't win an Oscar or that she doesn't have the skill. It's that until April of this year there just wasn't a category for stunt performers. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a new trophy specifically for stunt design this spring, but no movie will be eligible for the award until 2027—long after Ballerina is out of theaters. 'Kill me,' Chooljian jokes when I ask about the Academy's announcement and the timing of her latest movie. 'I was like, why aren't we pushing it' back? Stunt work has been a part of filmmaking since there have been movies. In an industry where actors are literally worth millions of dollars, there's often someone on set willing to do the really dangerous stuff to save their skin. Many stars—Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, Chooljian's Ballerina counterpart Ana de Armas—participate in the stunt work, but for a lot of the big life-or-death action, there's a double. They're named in the credits, but because of the nature of their work, they're also invisible to much of the audience. Going back to the 1990s, stunt performers have been asking for Academy recognition only to be shut down. But when movies like Furious 7, John Wick , and Mad Max: Fury Road started hitting theaters, the stunts were so unbelievable it became more clear that stunt work was as essential to some movies as the script or director. There was no movie without the action. Still, the creators behind it never got the same Academy recognition as, say, visual effects artists or costume designers. As part of the John Wick franchise, Ballerina was tailor-made for the Oscars' new category. In it, Chooljian and de Armas have to fight in every possible scenario with every possible weapon—plates, flamethrowers, every kind of gun imaginable. There are shoot-outs in clubs and hand-to-hand combat. David Leitch, a former stunt performer who cocreated Wick and went on to direct action-heavy movies like Atomic Blonde and Deadpool , was at the forefront of the campaign to get the Academy to create an award for stunts. If Ballerina was coming out just a bit later, it'd be at the forefront of the pack. Not that it'd be a shoo-in. It's coming out mere weeks after Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning , in which Tom Cruise once again hangs off of some flying object that he definitely shouldn't be. But, if anything, the existence of two highly competitive films in the category would prove why it's long overdue. The quest to put stunt performers on the Oscar ballot has been a long one. As Leitch's Wick cocreator Chad Stahelski told Variety in April 'the [stunt] department has been around since the very inception of films' going back to the black-and-white days of Buster Keaton and has never been recognized. Veteran stunt performer Jack Gill has been calling for the Academy to recognize the profession since 1991, getting backing from filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, but it never stuck. 'Every year I think, this is going to be the year,' Gill told The Los Angeles Times in 2015, but the Academy would ultimately not make the move. There aren't enough stunt-filled movies released in a given year for a competitive field, some argued. Others doubted that stunts rose to the level of a movie-making art or science. When the Academy finally announced the creation of the stunt design category, performers like Leitch celebrated the end of a long fight. Fall Guy stunt designer 'Chris O'Hara and I have spent years working to bring this moment to life,' he said in a statement at the time, 'standing on the shoulders of the stunt professionals who've fought tirelessly for recognition over the decades.' For Chooljian the award also promises to highlight what stunt performers actually do. Often, it's not just a matter of putting on a wig and flirting with danger so a more highly paid actor doesn't have to. She notes that often she'll get a script that just says 'fight ensues' and it's her job and that of her colleagues to design and plan that fight. People in the industry don't want to talk about stunt doubles, she continues, 'because they're supposed to be hidden, and if they're not hidden we're not doing our job.' But hidden perhaps shouldn't mean unrecognized. For Ballerina , Chooljian and de Armas, who Choolijan says did quite a bit of her own stunts and 'smashed it,' had to fight off multiple assailants, wield guns, and use ice skates as weapons. Like the other Wick films before, every move seems almost impossible but far more realistic than any action sequence in a superhero movie. Without those scenes, there is no story. It's Oscar-worthy—even if it's technically not.
