Rema ft Selena Gomez

“Calm Down”, taken from Nigerian singer and rapper Rema's March album Rave and Roses is an irresistible, laid-back jam, now furnished with Gomez's porcelain ...

“This song’s really close to me,” she says. Fresh from supporting Koffee on the US and Canadian leg of her tour, shows across the UK, plus a headline Lagos concert featuring West-African musical icons Burna Boy, Wizkid, Omah Lay and Zlatan, the 25-year-old artist-to-watch has still managed to gift us “Bad Since ‘97”. Leaders of England’s Northern and West Midland’s rap scenes respectively, Bugzy Malone and MIST’s “Energy” is a convergence of two rap trailblazers that more than lives up to its namesake. However, if anything, this is a vehicle to restore the supremacy of one of the 21st century’s most eminent performers, with the sound of Britney’s instantly recognisable, sugary top line on this, her first track since being released from a 14-year conservatorship, dripping in poignancy. A disco-pop reworking of John’s 1971 hit “Tiny Dancer”, in the vain of the previous modernisation of retro cuts “Sacrifice” and “Rocketman” on 2021’s Dua Lipa collab “Cold Heart”. “Calm Down”, taken from Nigerian singer and rapper Rema’s March album Rave and Roses is an irresistible, laid-back jam, now furnished with Gomez’s porcelain vocals, making for the late-summer team-up of our dreams.