J Hus: Who Told You review – the song of the summer has arrived

(Black Butter)
With a jazzy guest spot from Drake, this ode to the joy of dancing shows how masterful each MC is at moving with a beat

Inflate the unicorn, charge the vape, put this year’s iteration of alcopop on ice and set your fingers to gun: the song of the summer has arrived.

In a music and media industry in need of catchy frameworks (guilty), defining the season’s banger has become a yearly pastime, but 2023 was starting to feel a bit nervy. Pundits have been reaching for tracks such as Calvin Harris’s Miracle, Fifty Fifty’s Cupid and PinkPantheress’s Boy’s a Liar, which, while all excellent, were released in the depths of winter and thus can never be songs of the summer, spiritually speaking.

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