Friday Music Guide: New Music From Future & Metro Boomin, Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter & More

Advertising sign'The Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday's most essential releases — the essential music everyone will be talking about today and that will dominate playlists this weekend and beyond.

This week, Dua Lipa sees through your cheating, Sabrina Carpenter keeps you up all night, and of course Future and Metro Boomin remain doubtful of your credibility. Check out all of this week's picks below:

Future & Metro Boomin, We Still Don't Trust You

If you thought Future & Metro might be calling it quits on their chart-topping quest We Don't Trust You from three weeks ago, this list of 25 songs – 18 for the album proper and an additional seven-track disc – should make it pretty clear that this isn't just spare bonus material. After all, the first cut of the title finds the rapper and producer immediately on a new pulsating dance floor, led by an incredible appearance from The Weeknd, which sets the strobelit sonic tone for much of the project. But of course, people will mostly be talking about the appearances in this set by J. Cole (“Red Leather”), who doesn't really seem to be referring to any of the recent “Big 3” feuds, and A$AP Rocky (“Show of Hands”), who appears to be taking pictures — possibly of Drake? — Via his current romantic partner: “N—as they swear they dog ​​the worst, I just put the worst… Broke before you had a son, Flacko hit it first.”

Dua Lipa, “Illusion”

Following the Billboard Hot 100 top 40 hits “Houdini” and “Training Season,” pop superstar Dua Lipa returns with the third taste of her upcoming Radical Optimism set, “Illusion”. Co-written with regular collaborator Caroline Ailin, singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr., PC Music engineer Danny L Harle and psych-pop musician Kevin Parker – the latter two of whom co-produced – Lipa sings to learn to “take my rose-colored glasses” when dealing with a potential new love with no shortage of red flags. The track finds her back in the disco-pop sweet spot, and with its repetitive “dance all night” chorus, it should find its way into plenty of radio and club airplay in no time.

Sabrina Carpenter, “Espresso”

Speaking of disco-pop, if you prefer your dancefloor jams a little on the loose side — more “floaty” than “natural,” perhaps — Sabrina Carpenter has you covered with her hot new “Espresso.” The catchy new single, co-written with Grammy nominee Amy Allen and Carpenter's “Nonsense” collaborators Steph Jones and writer/producer Julian Bunetta, features Carpenter posing as the caffeinated beverage that keeps the thoughts of of boys in a race and not sleeping: “Thato espresso” . Who's to say what coffee puns will end up being heard in the outro on this one during future live performances?

Lil Nas X, “Right There”

“I've been collecting music for years, I hate my relationship with the fear of my songs not doing well and the perception,” Lil Nas X wrote on Instagram in March. “I wish I could just release music and not give af.” The rapper seems to be walking around now dropping his new 'Right There' on SoundCloud earlier this week, which is believed to be a track from his upcoming Nazareth 2 mixtape. With a bombastic beat built around an angelic vocal loop, the song sounds absolutely huge as LNX mixes themes of sex, drugs and religion into his lyrics: “Montero just popped that Perc/ This feel like God in Church/ This scripture a Bible verse / Open it with a bus and make it pop.”

Maggie Rogers, Do not forget me

Famed singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers may not be likely to end up with the busiest release of the week since Future & Metro hit cinemas, but Do not forget me Still, she should please fans of her bright, soulful alt-pop folk. Highlights of the already unreleased songs from her third official 10-track LP include the Pat Benatar-worthy '80s pop-rock blast 'Drunk' and the softly but steadily shuffling acoustic kiss 'On & On & On'.

PartyNextDoor, “Lose My Mind”

PartyNextDoor fans eager to hear the late-night singer-songwriter at his most meaty and unfiltered have no doubt been encouraged by the recently released cover art for his upcoming PartyNextDoor 4 album — a nude model, shot from behind — and will likely be further impressed by “Lose My Mind,” his hedonistic latest release from the project. “F–kin' two b—hes at once/ Couldn't make me choose if it depended on my life,” he sings on the first verse, and it gets more libidinous from there — culminating in a sample from DMX's ” Party Up (Up in Here)', which reconstructs that song's classic raging hook as a statement of unbridled lust and sexual abandon.