--- title: Katy Perry, Lupe Fiasco, Milky Chance, Noise Cans: New Music description: This week's best new music, from a subversive Katy Perry pop tune to Lupe Fiasco's new rap, Milky Chance, Erin McCarley, and Noise Cans. canonical: https://time.com/4667521/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-7/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-10T22:42:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:00.073Z og:title: The 5 Best Songs You Need to Hear This Week og:description: New music from Katy Perry, Lupe Fiasco, Milky Chance, and more. og:url: https://time.com/4667521/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-7/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 5 Best Songs You Need to Hear This Week twitter:description: New music from Katy Perry, Lupe Fiasco, Milky Chance, and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week (10 Feb 2017)  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 10, 2017 10:42 PM CUT  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 10, 2017 10:42 PM CUT Katy Perry’s back with a political disco tune that considers the entertainment-industrial complex. Plus, Lupe Fiasco releases _DROGAS Light_, Nashville singer-songwriter Erin McCarley plays with tone on “GOOD,” German folk band Milky Chance continue their streak of easy-going hits, and Bermudan producer and DJ Noise Cans finds a tropical groove that still sounds fresh. ### “Chained to the Rhythm,” Katy Perry Pop disco gets a darker spin when reading between the lines of the [new release from Katy Perry](http://time.com/4667037/katy-perry-single-chained-to-the-rhythm/ "undefined"). Featuring Bob Marley descendant Skip Marley, the song has both glitter and darkness. “Living our lives through a lens / Trapped in our white picket fence like ornaments,” she muses, an unapologetic dig at the very American culture that has come to revere her. ### “Tranquillo,” Lupe Fiasco feat. Rick Ross and Big K.R.I.T. Rapper Lupe Fiasco just dropped _DROGAS Light_, and while the album is a mixed bag (Fiasco [reviewed his own work](https://twitter.com/LupeFiasco/status/830094035087917057 "undefined") and gave it a 7 out of 10), “Tranquillo” is a highlight. The track brings us back to what makes Lupe tick: dense double-entendre rhymes that work like poetry over smooth, casual melody. ### “GOOD,” Erin McCarley Nashville singer-songwriter Erin McCarley goes darker than usual for “GOOD,” an echoing, reverb-filled pop track. The accompanying music video is a meditation on modern social malaise, just like the song itself. ### “Ego,” Milky Chance Easy, breezy, and folksy, Milky Chance’s “Ego” feels like a modern-day Vampire Weekend: the soundtrack of a casual road trip by the beach undertaken by the coolest of surfer kids. It’s underpinned by a subtly darker current, though: “So meet me by sea, you see it’s ours / And our place to be somewhere else,” it goes, suggesting a necessary escape. ### “Caan Dun,” Noise Cans feat. Louise Chantál Bermudan producer and DJ Noise Cans gives us a fresh-sounding take on today’s oft-maligned popular “tropical house” in “Caan Dun,” a song that evokes both warmth and nostalgia, thanks in no small part to rich vocals from R&B singer Louise Chantál and a coursing Caribbean beat. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4667521/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-7/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4667521/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-7/"},"headline":"5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week (10 Feb 2017)","datePublished":"2017-02-10T22:42:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:00.073Z","description":"Katy's back.","url":"https://time.com/4667521/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-7/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4667521/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-7/","name":"5 Songs You Need to Listen to This Week (10 Feb 2017)"}}]}] ```