Charlie Puth’s smells, Yungblud’s Durex endorsement & more: Your weekly bop roundup
Welcome to the weekend, Queerty readers! Can you smell what the bop is cookin’?It’s been a long week, and it seems like it’s had folks feeling pretty sensitive: JK Rowling spent all week backpedaling, Sarah Palin felt the defeat in Alaska, and Lea Michele was appalled when her friends read her all the Twitter jokes.This weeks drops were a little more sensitive than usual, too — mostly we mean introspective, though one of the entries did add in a little extra sensation of the physical kind.From self-reflection to extra protection, here’s your weekly bop roundup:Charlie loves nothing more than a heavily layered vocal on a synthpop ballad (other than getting a little thotty for the masses, that is).
This definitely isn’t a huge departure for the post-Voicenotes sound he’s cultivated in “Girlfriend” or “Light Switch”, but it’s a perfectly fun sadboy bop to tide us over til Charlie drops in October.
And you know what? We hope your jacket smells like Charlie Puth, too.Yungblud’s uber-energetic persona is right at home in this take on The Cure’s “Close To Me”.
The video amps the excitement up to eleven, with queer bar/cinema scenes and some highly kinetic camerawork. Also amping up the excitement is the adorably on-the-nose Durex product placement smack dab in the middle of the video.
