Monet X Change reacts to Drake while playing Jam or Not A Jam
While touring her one-woman show, Life Be Lifin', earlier this year, Monet X Change stopped by CBC Music to play a game of Jam Or Not A Jam. She even got to share how much time she spends dancing to Rich Baby Daddy.
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02-05-2025
- CBC
Pop singer Nia Nadurata reflects on writing her breakout track I Think I Like Your Girlfriend
The emerging singer-songwriter also discussed her debut EP on The Block Image | nia nadurata the block Caption: Nia Nadurata joined The Block's host Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe in Toronto for an interview. (Robbie Serrano; graphic by CBC Music) Open Image in New Tab Media Audio | The Block : Nia Nadurata stops by The Block to talk about her debut EP, Still Living With My Parents and how she uses real life experiences to create relatable break up anthems. Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Toronto pop singer-songwriter Nia Nadurata cut her teeth penning songs for Juno-nominated artists including Boslen and Nonso Amadi, before releasing her first official single, Drive Faster, in 2023. She followed it up with a second track, I Think I Like Your Girlfriend, and the hook-y, upbeat song took off: it now has more than a million streams on Spotify and is her most popular track to date. WATCH | The official music video for I Think I Like Your Girlfriend: Embed | YouTube Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. In a new interview with The Block 's host Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe, Nadurata explains how a joke about her ex-boyfriend led her to write the infectious song. The full interview is available above and you can read an excerpt of their conversation below. You just heard one of my favourite tunes called I Think I Like Your Girlfriend from Toronto-based indie pop artist, Nia Nadurata, taken from her debut EP, Still Living With My Parents. Nia has been steadily working behind the scenes writing for some of your favourite artists, which we will get into, and has decided to step forward and release her own music. She's known for these cute, catchy, poppy, anthemic breakup songs... Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. So that song is apparently based on a true story [and was] originally titled, Why Does Your Girlfriend Hate Me? Yes. So do you want to dive into that a little bit? Give us the backstory. Um, I mean, it was a really weird situation where I was just friends with somebody I used to see, which is sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing. You never want there to be any bad blood, I guess. You don't? Well, I mean, no. I'm like, wait a little longer, my friend. Me personally, I would hate to have bad blood. But then I [wrote] a song about it. And then what do you expect from somebody? Did the song create bad blood? Honestly, the song for us, we actually got closer. Okay, wait, wait. I just need to say, so you and your ex remained friends? Yes. 15 South Asian Canadian artists to listen to right now And then following the release of this song, where he started dating someone else, you got even closer. Yes, of course. Of course, of, course, of course. They did break up on my release day. Did it have anything to do with you? That's none of my business, because by then it [was] actually not my relationship. I am just a singer, singing. Singing songs. How these Filipino Canadian hip-hop artists are creating a unique sound I love how you're just like, "I accept no responsibility for my actions." Hey, we listen and we don't judge! Honestly, I thought that it was one of these sort of queer anthems when I first heard it, it was like you had a crush on your ex's new girlfriend. Well, that was the whole joke about it, because the queer topic is something that I never really talked about in my family. So it would always just be a little joke that we would say like, "Oh, I like that guy. Maybe his girlfriend, too." And it would just be a joke that my cousins and I would say just to test the waters with our lola, just to see if she was listening. She wasn't. But that's all for the best of course, she loves the song. But we wrote it originally with the idea [of] why does your girlfriend hate me, because I was like, "I get that you don't want to be around somebody that your boyfriend used to see, but I think I'm being really nice." And I don't know why she doesn't like me. And then we thought that "why does your girlfriend hate me," would be a funny thing to say. And then I was like, maybe it's him, maybe he doesn't want me to be around her because he knows that her and I would hit it off. Like, look at us, we have the same taste, of course we would hit if off.
CBC
24-04-2025
- CBC
Monet X Change reacts to Drake while playing Jam or Not A Jam
While touring her one-woman show, Life Be Lifin', earlier this year, Monet X Change stopped by CBC Music to play a game of Jam Or Not A Jam. She even got to share how much time she spends dancing to Rich Baby Daddy.
CBC
16-04-2025
- CBC
The Beaches' late-night party anthem, and 4 more songs you need to hear this week
Listen to new music from Allison Russell, Bambii, Sister Ray and more Image | The Beaches SYNTH Caption: The Beaches' new single, Last Girls at the Party, is a song you need to hear this week. (Meg Moon; graphic by CBC Music) Open Image in New Tab Songs you need to hear is CBC Music's weekly list of hot new Canadian tracks. Scroll down to discover the songs our producers are loving right now. Last Girls at the Party, The Beaches After taking home the 2025 Juno Award for group of the year, Toronto band the Beaches celebrated by releasing their first new single of the year, and a sneak peek at their upcoming third studio album, No Hard Feelings (out Aug. 29). Last Girls at the Party finds the women in their comfort zone: in the midst of a debaucherous night out, determined to party long after everyone else has gone home. "I'm not gonna slow down/ I'll never look as hot as I do now," singer Jordan Miller states upfront. The track is exuberant and so catchy that it'll likely stay in your head all night long, especially its shout-along bridge where they note how hours fly by when you're having fun ("It's only 1:00, right? It's only 2:00, right? It's only 3:00, right?"). Whether you're getting ready to head out for the evening or approaching last call, Last Girls at the Party is a new anthem for your night out playlist. — Melody Lau Junos 2025: full list of winners Superlover, Allison Russell feat. Annie Lennox Embed | YouTube Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Annie Lennox and Allison Russell are powerhouse musicians and activists in their own right, but together? They stop time. From Russell's first banjo notes, Superlover stands tall and sombre, a plea for peace and unity. "Tears of rage, tears of grief/ Palestine, Israel to Tennessee/ we need a superlove/ we need a superlover," she sings on the updated version of a song she originally released in 2018 as Birds of Chicago, the duo with her husband, JT Nero. Lennox's inimitable voice, which hasn't been recorded in seven years, takes over on the second verse, before she and Russell lace together for a goosebump-inducing chorus. Superlover is meditative and thoughtful, a prayer for the non-denominational. "I don't know how to pray, so I offered up this song," Russell explained in a statement, ending with: "All children are our children. All of them. Everywhere. No exceptions. This song is a calling in. We are one human family. Equally." — Holly Gordon Wings, Sister Ray Embed | YouTube Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Sister Ray (the folk project of Ella Coyes) has a voice that coils around each note before unfurling over gentle guitar strumming on Wings, the escapist track from their second album, Believer. "I know exactly which ride I'm gonna want to ride first when I arrive with you," they sing on the track's opening line, flowing over bristling guitar. Each word floats up, sounding untethered and free. "The first verse is from 2020, watching videos of Canada's Wonderland rollercoasters, trying to feel the rush of the descent locked inside," Coyes explained on Instagram, pinpointing that butterfly-inducing feeling of creeping toward something new. The writing is equal parts quirky and poetic: "I could tell that you were wasted even in a foreign language/ You stare at stars/ I call out constellations," they sing matter-of-factly, the uniqueness of their inner monologue shining through. Wings is rollicking Americana, with Coyes basking in the excitement of uncertainty. — Natalie Harmsen Bad Boy, Bambii Embed | YouTube Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. When a distorted voice bellows "It's time to feel the music," before the cacophonous drop on Bambii's latest single, Bad Boy, it's a warning for the adrenaline rush to come. The Toronto producer and DJ's first solo release of 2025 (she appeared on Shygirl's EP Club Shy Room 2 in February) teases an explosive new era ahead of her upcoming EP. It's not that Bambii has shied away from bold and brash sounds in the past (hear: Spit and Shh), but Bad Boy is in a world of its own. Clashing drum breaks and dark horns ricochet across the heart-rate inducing track, ready to overwhelm all your senses. The accompanying music video, which finds Bambii squaring up against three assailants, taps into the song's primal energy. — Kelsey Adams I Think I Do This, Sophie Noel Embed | YouTube Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Unravelling unhealthy relationship patterns can be a painful experience, but Nova Scotia-based Sophie Noel has managed to wrap that work up in a perfectly timed spring bop. "I think I do this/ I think I fall out of love, and I barely notice," they sing charmingly on the chorus, after detailing a near panic attack and a last-ditch effort to save a relationship in a Tanya Davis-style flood of nuance. Produced by Mo Kenney, I Think I Do This dips a folk sensibility in pop sheen, and cements the artist formerly known as Yukon's Magnolia as a now East Coast voice to watch. This newest track is the second in a one-two punch of releases that dropped just ahead of Sophie Noel's Eastern Canada spring tour, following the previously released Hurricane. — HG
