Honey Mag

Aural pleasure is sensing your emotions ignore restraint and melt into a chord. It’s hearing an Einstein sixteen and feeling your brow wrinkle like a three-hour soak. It’s a verse that tempts your tears or woos your hips. The rhythms we want when tonguing a crush, pulling a friend’s palm to the dance floor, warming heartache, trashing a sour love, throwing a middle finger to the world … embracing the world. It’s good fucking music, literally and sentimentally. Peep Honey’s weekly five-track play list and start lusting hard. After all, who can resist great aural?

Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce — “Telephone”

Gaga upgrades her signature sound by channeling a bit of Terius and adding a glaze of Bey’s vixen sass.

Listen while … reintroducing him to your voicemail.

Standout line: “Boy, the way you blowin’ up my phone / Won’t make me leave no faster / Put my coat on faster / Leave my girls no faster / I shoulda left my phone at home / Cause this a disaster”

Rihanna — “Rude Boy”

Rih keeps it fun, flirty, and feisty with not a sharp Breezy reference present.

Listen while … demanding he stand at attention.

Standout line: “I like the way you touch me there / I like the way you pull my hair / Babe, if I don’t feel it I ain’t faking / No, no”

Dirty Money ft. Drake — “Hurt”

In an auto-tuned lullaby, Diddy and his cocoa cohorts whimper about love’s downs and call on Drake for some emo extra credit.

Listen while … opening the shades to a brighter side of love.

Standout line (Drake, FTW): “When I wanted it blue you said we got to paint it pink / And there’s pieces of ya hair still sittin in my sink / And you still got underwear that’s sittin in the dryer / How come every time that you’re suspicious I’m a liar?”

Alicia Keys — “Dreaming”

Rarely, if ever disappointing, A. Keys makes it so hard to hate love.

Listen while … enjoying the simple side of love.

Standout line: ”Trying to keep my feet on the ground / But my head is in the clouds / Love’s so hard to find / But you know that it’s on my mind”

Ne-Yo — “I Already Know”

Out of Ne-Yo’s countless zShare links, this sings more of single potential, then Sunday pastime.

Listen while … dismissing his groveling apologies.

Standout line: “So I put two and two together, and figured out you have a special friend / Next thing on my mind was revenge so / So me and your two friends, the time we had was great / If you don’t believe me, then watch the tape”