LITM Pop Picks Tunes brought to you by Ricky Earlywine, Sonny Southon and Amara Fe
Ricky Earlywine—"Move "Like This"
There are comebacks, and then there are reckonings. Ricky Earlywine's "Move Like This" is firmly the latter. Debuting in January 2026, the single arrives fresh off a deeply personal chapter of healing—and you can hear every bit of it. Channeling the vocal authority of Tori Kelly, Kehlani, and Rihanna, Earlywine layers a hypnotic cadence over slick, intimate production that manages to feel both epic and close to the chest. Recorded and mixed entirely in his home studio in Lacey, the track is a full declaration of creative independence, each harmony, each vocal breath, placed with the precision of someone who nearly lost it all and refuses to waste a single note. This is what survival sounds like when it's been set to music.
2. Sonny Southon – "I'm In Love"
Some artists spend their whole careers building toward the kind of quiet authority that Sonny Southon was simply born with. Samoan and Scottish, raised in New Zealand, she left home at seventeen with nothing but a passion for music and went on to perform at Wembley Arena, Glastonbury, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Montreux Jazz Festival, working alongside legends like Duran Duran, Bryan Ferry, and Bob Geldof. Now, in 2025, she's finally turning those decades of lived experience into her own sonic musings, and "I'm In Love" is exactly the kind of song that only someone with that depth of history could write. It doesn't perform joy. It simply is joy.
3. Amara Fe – "Forever Last"
The best opening tracks don't ease you in. They grab you by the collar. "Forever Last," the album opener from Amara Fe's Echoes, sets the tone immediately: danceable R&B, a sharp, punchy beat, and vocal lines so elegant they almost feel effortless - luminous, flexible, and nearly weightless. A Mission, Texas-based singer and songwriter, Amara Fe blends alternative pop, R&B, and neo-soul into lush melodic soundscapes, with vocal performances that carry a quietly soul-stirring presence. She chose her stage name to represent something pure and everlasting, and "Forever Last" lives up to exactly that promise. It's the kind of song that lodges itself in your chest and simply refuses to leave.
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