coup de main - noun
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Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Must-listen: Holly Humberstone's new song 'Scarlett'.

"This track is my absolute favourite," says Holly Humberstone of her excellent new song, 'Scarlett'. She explains: "It’s a fuck you to the guy that was going out with my closest friend Scarlett and it was written as they were breaking up. The relationship was totally one sided and lasted for years. Scarlett was all in and had pretty much planned their future and it was pretty clear to me that he was stringing her along, until he broke up with her in a really insensitive and heartless way.

Interview: Bleachers' Jack Antonoff on embracing your sadness.

"There's millions of people in the world - you don't want them all to like you, you want to find your people," explained Jack Antonoff earnestly last month to fans at a Q&A event held on the rooftop of New York City's Electric Lady Studios.

Finneas releases new song 'The 90s'.

Ahead of the release of his forthcoming debut album, 'Optimist', out next month on October 15th, Finneas has today shared a new song, 'The 90s', which arrives accompanied by a music video choreographed by Monika Felice Smith.

"I think about the 90s / When the future was a testament," sings Finneas in the new song as he poignantly ponders the past.

Watch 'The 90s' music video below...

Charli XCX shares new song 'Good Ones'.

"Today, I, the inimitable Charli XCX, am releasing a brand new single ‘Good Ones’, accompanied by a twisted, dramatic and quite frankly electrifying music video," declared Charli XCX today.

"The first single of my new chapter embraces  all that my life has to offer in today’s world - fame, glamour, inner demons and global hits. ‘Good Ones’ was produced by Oscar Holter of Max Martin’s Wolf Cousins entity, and laments my inability to keep hold of healthy relationships, instead being endlessly drawn back to the dysfunctional and toxic.

Listen: Ruel features on Dylan J's new song 'Notice Me'.

Ruel's latest collaboration is with fellow Australian artist Dylan J on new song, 'Notice Me', which he says the pair wrote while J was living with him and his family in the late 2010s. "We went into my little makeshift studio (which only really had a laptop and speakers)," Ruel explains, "then tried to make something we both related to."

J says: "Ruel and I have been friends for six years and we always talked about making a song together, so it’s definitely time we released one."

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