Billie Eilish, Jorja Smith, the Go-Go’s and More in Fri 5, the Best Songs of the Week

variety.com:

Chris Willman Music WriterWhen Billie Eilish announced she had new music coming right around the time that Taylor Swift was unexpectedly delivering “Folklore,” there was a split-second’s worth of “quarantine be damned: this is going to be the best July ever” pop sentiment before everyone realized that Eilish would be dropping a mere single, not a full made-in-lockdown album.

But we take our Eilishian pleasures as they are dribbled out, and “My Future” certainly counts as one — about as subdued in its way as this year’s earlier “No Time to Die,” but with uncharacteristically upbeat lyrics that make 2020 sound like a fine time for her to live.The rest of the songs in this week’s Fri 5 — Variety‘s roundup of five of the best or most notable.