The search for the ever-elusive “bop” is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new?Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn’t discriminate by genre and can include anything it’s a snapshot of what’s on our minds and what sounds good. We’ll keep it fresh with the latest music, but expect a few oldies (but goodies) every once in a while, too. Get ready: The Bop Shop is now open for business.
British singer-songwriter-producer SG Lewis is lending solid weight to a very good year for disco-laced dance-pop, from helping to deliver Victoria Monets sassy Experience, to his own groovy Chemicals. It feels though those tracks pave the way to Impact, an equally impressive, earth-shifting club banger, where gritty synth sets the pace for a thumping, swirling showdown between legend Robyn and rising star Channel Tres, each massively head-over-heels for the one that takes them higher. Terron Moore
Alt-rock group The Orphan The Poet build their new sun-soaked anthem around the hypnotic line, Well spend the summer in a daze, and while a season in quarantine is surely not what they were anticipating, it finds new meaning in the midst of what can best be described as a daze. The newly rechristened two-piece from Ohio evokes the sound of 90s alternative bops before them with crispy production, vocals from all directions, and lyrics that dont take themselves too seriously from skinny-dipping in pools of champagne to an interruption about a tub delivery on the seventeenth floor. Wherever you may be, let the sun blocking commence! Carson Mlnarik