I Love It

We've reached the time of year where people start talking about potential "songs of the summer", and Stockholm pop duo Icona Pop's latest single, "I Love It", seems like a righteous contender from the get-go. A slice of buzzy electro euphoria that fits easily with both modern pop and electronic music's recent turn towards total maximalism, the song finds band members Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo barely lowering their voices to arena-level volume, shouting defiantly about crashing cars and how they "threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs" with infectious, starry-eyed energy. Delectable, empowering, infinitely repeatable-- and it arrives with the added surprise, too, that none other than Charli XCX wrote the song herself. Who says colorful pop can't wear black?