Bruno is back, and you can't Mars this vibe. The long-awaited "The Romantic" album, released on Feb. 27, has been 10 years in the waiting as it was 2016 when “Locked Out of Heaven” was released.
Are fans hype for the new album?
“Nothing will compare to his old music,” said OH junior Victoriana Arriaga. Mars specializes in many different music types like funk, R&B, and pop. His old music has been around for a long period of time and has stuck with the newer generations.
Podcast Editor Jia Nair dives into Harry Styles' long-awaited new album “Kiss All the Time, Disco Occasionally." After a three-year break, Styles is officially back, and fans have had a lot to say.
The album feels like a reinvention of disco. It leans heavily into funk and glam-pop while still maintaining the emotional songwriting that Styles is known for. In this podcase, Nair takes a deeper dive into the album's most popular songs, such as "Aperture," "Coming Up Roses," "Pop, Ready Steady Go," "American Girls," and "Are You Listening Yet?"
Lock in for good tracks and songs that slay.
Being famous comes with its ups and downs, and while may popularity brings success, it can just as easily be forgotten and lost.
This is known as “falling off,” and rapper J. Cole discusses this feeling and how it impacts him on his new album “The Fall-Off.”
"The Fall-Off" provides J.Cole fans with another album full of amazing flows, such as songs "Bunce Road Blues" and "The Villest," yet with an amazing use of storytelling about his past and how it affects him. After only two years of the release of his last album “Might Delete Later,” J.Cole is feeding his fans with more and more platinum hits one last time.
“'The Fall Off' is one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written,” simply said OH senior Sebastion Simkins.
On Feb. 20, Megan Moroney dropped her third studio album called "Cloud 9." This album features popular artists, too, like Ed Sheeran and Kacey Musgraves.
OH junior Payton Forbes said, “My immediate reaction to her new album was wow, just wow.”
This album features 15 songs, with three dropping before the release date. Six months later, "Beautiful Things" and "Wish I Didn’t" dropped.
Moroney has given her fans easter eggs in the lead-up to her album release. On MeganMoroney.com, teasers on Nov. 9, 2025, led to her announcing "Cloud 9" on Nov. 11, 2025.
New Edition. Boys II Men. Toni Braxton. These are bands and performers that your parents likely loved in the 90s, but they still have what it takes to perform - and perform well- on stage.
Listen in as podcast host Chase Berkson and guest, OH senior Nick Dillon, review the Wed., Feb. 4 concert at the United Center in Chicago which featured these three bands. From the R&B classics from Boys II Med to the sweet ballads of Toni Braxton, there is still a lot to love, 30 years later.