Hey guys!

It’s the last day of February, which means it’s time for my February 2021 Playlist! I skipped posting a playlist in January as it was a relatively quiet month in terms of new releases, and I did publish My Favourite Songs of 2020.

While February wasn’t as busy for music as I’d hoped, we did get a whole load of new songs and albums, from artists like Demi Lovato, The Pretty Reckless and Daya. Taylor Swift also released a new version of her first hit ‘Love Story’ – it sounds so similar to the original song, yet different at the same time. And Mariah Carey did an updated version of ‘We Belong Together’, one of her most iconic songs.

Halfway through the month, The Pretty Reckless dropped their latest album ‘Death by Rock and Roll’. For those of you who aren’t familiar with The Pretty Reckless, it’s an American rock band fronted by Taylor Momsen, who is best known for playing Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl and Cindy Lou in How the Grinch Stole Christmas before she decided to focus solely on music. ‘Death by Rock and Roll’ is the band’s fourth album and has 12 songs. I’ll be honest and say that I don’t listen to The Pretty Reckless as often as I’d like, but I love some of their earlier songs, especially ‘Make Me Wanna Die’, ‘Just Tonight’ and ‘Miss Nothing’, as well as the singles they chose from ‘Death by Rock and Roll’. My top songs from ‘Death by Rock and Roll’ would have to be the title track, ‘And So It Went’, ’25’, ‘Got So High’ and ‘Turning Gold’.

At the beginning of February, Demi Lovato teamed up with Sam Fischer, a relatively unknown Australian singer-songwriter, for ‘What Other People Say’, and it is definitely one of my favourite songs of the year so far. It’s a catchy and empowering song that Demi claims is “a reflection on what it’s like to lose who you truly are in an effort to please other people and society.” Demi will be releasing her highly anticipated new documentary ‘Dancing with the Devil’ at the end of March, and it seems like there’s a song to go with it, so hopefully we’ll be hearing more music from her in the next few weeks.

Without further ado, here are some of the new songs I enjoyed listening to in February:

1. Let’s Go Home Together – Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan
2. We Belong Together (Mimi’s Late Night Valentine’s Mix) – Mariah Carey
3. Cover Me In Sunshine – P!nk & Will Sage Hunt
4. Stay – Victoria Justice
5. Love Story (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
6. Bad Girl – Daya
7. Better Day – Leadley
8. someone like u (Interlude) – Ariana Grande
9. test drive – Ariana Grande
10. worst behavior – Ariana Grande
11. main thing – Ariana Grande
12. Bubblegum Brain – Ellise
13. F.U.C.K – Victoria Monét
14. Flowers – Kelly Rowland
15. Black Magic – Kelly Rowland
16. Hitman – Kelly Rowland
17. Crazy – Kelly Rowland
18. Speed of Love – Kelly Rowland
19. Better – Kelly Rowland
20. Death by Rock and Roll – The Pretty Reckless
21. Only Love Can Save Me Now – The Pretty Reckless ft Matt Cameron & Kim Tahayil
22. And So It Went – The Pretty Reckless ft Tom Morello
23. 25 – The Pretty Reckless
24. My Bones – The Pretty Reckless
25. Got So High – The Pretty Reckless
26. Witches Burn – The Pretty Reckless
27. Standing at the Wall – The Pretty Reckless
28. Turning Gold – The Pretty Reckless
29. Rock and Roll Heaven – The Pretty Reckless
30. Harley Darling – The Pretty Reckless
31. To The Grave – Esmée Denters
32. Forgive or Forget – Sarah Close
33. Last Love – Sinead Harnett
34. Anyone Else But You – Anthony de la Torre
35. You Still Think Of Me – Jordin Sparks
36. Tomorrow – Shontelle

Hope you enjoyed my playlist! 

Serena