New Music Friday: Nelly Furtado's Comeback, Skrillex's Latest Curveball, and 3 More Dance Tracks Worth Your Time

Nelly Furtado's first proper single in seven years is the headline, but this week's dance releases don't stop there. From a Canada's Drag Race winner's club-ready anthem to a rising producer's festival-mainstage moment, here are five tracks actually worth streaming this weekend—with names, dates, and enough detail to help you decide where to start.


Nelly Furtado, Tove Lo & SG Lewis: "Love Bites"

Released: May 17 | Label: Nelstar/21

Furtado's return lands squarely in the Y2K-revival sweet spot: breathy Portuguese-English verses, Tove Lo's deadpan bridge, and SG Lewis's glossy French-touch production. It's less "Promiscuous" retread than grown-up nightclub pop, and Furtado sounds relaxed rather than desperate for a hit. The TikTok-ready hook arrives 40 seconds in; resistance is futile.

Stream "Love Bites"


Skrillex & Boys Noize: "Fine Day Anthem"

Released: May 16 | Label: Owsla/Atlantic

Skrillex doesn't drop singles so much as he maintains a constant drip-feed. This week's contribution, a collaboration with longtime partner Boys Noize, reworks Opus III's 1992 rave classic "Fine Day" into something far more abrasive. The breakbeat passages nod to jungle; the drops land closer to distorted hardstyle than to the melodic dubstep that made his name. If you came for Bangarang nostalgia, you'll leave disappointed. If you want a 3 a.m. warehouse weapon, this delivers.

Stream "Fine Day Anthem"


Priyanka: "Shut It Down"

Released: May 17 | Label: Self-released

Not Priyanka Chopra Jonas—the Canada's Drag Race Season 1 winner, who has spent the past three years building one of the more convincing post-drag pop careers. "Shut It Down" is her most streamlined single yet: a ballroom-influenced dance track built around a staccato synth line and her own unapologetically theatrical delivery. The production is leaner than her earlier club-pop experiments, which lets her personality fill the space. For fans of Kim Petras's Era 1 material or RuPaul's more house-oriented deep cuts.

Stream "Shut It Down"


Zach Campbell: "Euphoria"

Released: May 17 | Label: Astralwerks

The 24-year-old producer has spent two years releasing solid if anonymous future-bass singles. "Euphoria" feels like a breakthrough—less because it reinvents the wheel than because Campbell finally commits to a single mood and rides it for four minutes. The track builds around a filtered vocal sample and a gradually intensifying arpeggio that peaks at the two-minute mark without collapsing into a predictable drop. It's mainstage EDM for listeners who have outgrown mainstage EDM.

Stream "Euphoria"


Azealia Banks: "New Bottega"

Released: May 16 | Label: Chaos & Glory

To close the loop on this week's actual genre diversity: Azealia Banks returns with a track that sits at the intersection of dance-rap and Jersey club. "New Bottega" pairs her rapid-fire delivery with a chopped vocal sample and a 150-BPM kick pattern that demands movement. The lyrics are vintage Banks—luxury brands, sharp elbows, and self-mythology—over production that wouldn't sound out of place at a Newark basement party. It's the most hip-hop-adjacent entry here, and arguably the most physically demanding.

Stream "New Bottega"


The Bottom Line

Start with Furtado if you want polished pop with nostalgic credentials. Start with Skrillex if you want to hear where mainstream electronic music's aggressive fringe is heading. And if you're looking for something to soundtrack a pre-game or a workout, Priyanka and Azealia Banks cover opposite ends of the same high-BPM spectrum. Stream all five below.

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