ErickOscar confronts generations of inherited silence head-on in his new single, “Say What I Feel.” A Panamanian-born, U.S.-based singer-songwriter and producer with over three decades of musical experience, ErickOscar leans into contemporary country and heart-on-sleeve storytelling to stage a quiet domestic revolution. Written for his wife, the track directly challenges the stoic, emotionally restrained households so many grow up in, insisting that familial devotion...

Nobody wants a neighbour who scripts their smile. Monique Maion puts that pressure at the centre of “Karen”, a Portuguese-language single. The Brazilian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist takes the familiar Karen persona, shaped by political debate and social media, and shrinks it back to the size of a real conflict: one person trying to dictate another person’s manners. It is a smart dismissal with baião at...