Here’s a rundown of new singles that caught our attention.

Starting with Selena Gomez who dropped a vibing new track over the weekend with “Love On.” This bouncy mid-tempo track finds Gomez swimming again in catchy, dance-ready pop. The sound of “Love On” is quite current, which is to say, an amalgam of all the good-sounding elements that make up pop these days: a cool piano-synth vamp borrowed from the 80s, a simple but bouncing bassline and its complimentary basic dance beat, and topping it all off is Selena Gomez of course, who certainly knows how to sell a pop song as helmed by The Monsters & Strangerz songwriting and production team and Isaiah Tejada. Here, Selena is all about how lucky a guy would be if he’s around when she turns her ‘love on.’ Between the sexy innuendos, Selena manages to put across quite a fine-crafted pop song everyone can vibe to.

R&B and neo-soul singer SZA is set on a chill as she channels all the good vibes of 90s R&B on her new song “Saturn.” SZA--pronounced as C-Zah—real name Solana Imana Rowe, conjures up fleeting images of heartache, pain, and confusion, and it’s not at all about a boy. SZA is digging a lot deeper as her sample lyrics show: ‘Stuck in this paradigm / don’t believe in paradise / this must be what the hell is like / there’s got to be more / been here before.’ SZA might sound esoteric on her chorus of ‘life is better on Saturn / got to break this pattern of floating away / find something worth saving,’ but It’s all about finding enlightenment for SZA on this one. The music tries its damnedest best to keep up with SZA’s chase, and the result is this cool-sounding, funky, bass-driven rhythm that adds to the hypnotic nature of SZA’s sweet melodies.

Legendary pop artist, singer-songwriter, and the original “piano man” Billy Joel returns after almost two decades with a new single in “Turn the Lights Back On.” The world didn’t believe it’d happen again, especially after he announced his retirement, but here’s Billy Joel's first new song after a long while. In the first few stanzas, Billy Joel sings an introspective song about how the passage of time and familiarity can affect relationships, especially those who are in it for the long haul. Especially that line about ‘though I used to be romantic / I forgot somehow.’ This made me think about how some marriages (or long-standing partnerships for some) sometimes fade. Maybe they got lazy? It takes a lot of work, you know. But overall, the song is hopeful, as Joel intones in the chorus: ‘I’m late, but I’m here right now /and I’m tryin’ to find the magic / that we lost somehow / maybe I was blind / but I see you now / As we’re laying in the darkness.’

It could very well be a metaphor for Billy Joel and those who love his music who have waited a long time and, indeed, almost given up, as the piano man asks: ‘Did I wait too long / to turn the lights back on?’ They can all think what they want, but Billy Joel still sounds great.

Last is Justin Timberlake’s “Drown”, a moody tune about a failed relationship. Is it about Britney Spears? Some think so. Regardless, this is a slow banger in the fashion of “Cry Me A River,” a break-up song about Britney Spears.