With "A Piece of Me," Western Australia’s Bailey Perrie offers up a pop rock grenade with the pin already pulled, cleverly disguised as a twisted love song. It thunders forward with a cinematic, arena-ready confidence that makes its raw, emotionally brutalist core all the more disarming. The effect is something like finding a tear-stained diary page taped to the side of a massive firework...

The best things in life are always free, and this one is no exception. Alisa Inez has created a love recipe that will keep your relationship sweet, delectable, and lovely. She is done working on the ideal romantic manual, which she has turned into a song called "Love's Recipe" that promotes love, especially around Thanksgiving and the holiday season. It's a compelling and flexible song with...