Songs You May Have Missed #860

Charlie Puth: “Reply to This” (2026)

“Reply to This” has been teased by Charlie Puth for 6 years.

Originally titled “Reply 2 This”, an incomplete earlier version was heard during a July 2020 Instagram live stream then shared by Puth on TikTok in August of that year with the message “Tell me to drop it and I will…”

Another TikTok in 2023 featured a snippet of a higher-quality take of the song, with Puth asking “Should I?”

Fans responded in the affirmative of course, but it took until the second half of 2026 when, as part of the expanded edition of his Whatever’s Clever! album, Puth finally gave the song its official release–to a chorus of “Finally!” and “I’ve waited 6 years for this!” but also lots of “The earlier version was better” comments.

So we include the earlier take, preferred by some fans, and let you be the judge.

Whichever your preference, this song has more hooks and lures than a fisherman’s tackle box.

Songs You May Have Missed #859

Natalia Lafourcade: “El Lugar Correcto” (Live) (2024)

When Mexican singer/songstress Natalia Lafourcade says, as is her wont at her concerts, “Welcome to my living room”, it feels like you’ve found el lugar correcto indeed.

She writes and plays in a myriad of styles; paints with many colors. But there is gentle, effortless beauty in all her work. And a deep love for the music itselt.

She was born for this.

The Right Place

Sorry, I had to be absent for a moment
I had an appointment to attend with myself
I had forgotten how to see in a mirror
In my face, in my eyes, what inhabits my universe

Forgive me if I cried, cried, cried while dancing
I had old pains to attend to from that past
Then I returned to that necessary silence
To hear the heart speak of the truth

Of the truth that are those sunsets
Of the truth that shines in the present time
Of the truth that is in those simple things, like breathing

Excuse me, I had to be absent for a moment
There was a flower drying inside the house
I had forgotten how to keep it company
To the solitude of my old garden in Veracruz

Forgive me if I cried, cried, cried while dancing
I had old pains to attend to from that past
Then I returned to that necessary silence

To hear the heart speak the truth

And the right place is now
To walk
The right place is now
No more is needed
And the right place is now
To walk
And the right place is now
No more is needed

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Songs You May Have Missed #858

Joshua James: “Queen of the City” (2012)

Indie folk songwriter Joshua James has been writing spooky, spare, introspective songs “since I got the disease”.

He’s the rare folk singer who can land multiple songs on the Sons of Anarchy soundtrack and release an album of Carpenters covers.

His voice, like his songs, comes across with a gritty and arresting honesty–exactly what you’d expect from a guy who raises chickens, goats and honeybees.in Utah.

Songs You May Have Missed #857

Elliott Smith: “Waltz #2 (XO)” (1998)

On the heels of Elliot Smith’s Academy Award-nominated work (“Miss Misery”) for the Good Will Hunting film soundtrack, he signed with a bigger label and released a bigger sounding album.

Smith was still writing songs of torment, depression and addiction. But adding horns, string arrangements and Chamberlin, Smith at least made the darkness sound more (musically) attractive than ever.

See also: Songs You May Have Missed #210 | Every Moment Has A Song

Songs You May Have Missed #856

Peter Wolf: “There’s Still Time” (2010)

Peter Wolf’s “There’s Still Time” is a grown up rock song about reflection and re-centering.

The man who presided over the sweaty house party that was the J. Geils Band sounds like a guy quite a few miles down the road on his 2010 offering, Midnight Souvenirs.

Some rockers don’t know how to settle down or get on with the next phase, and nothing’s sadder than seeing geriatric rockers trying to maintain an image, or songwriting POV, suited to a 25-year-old.

It’s nice to hear one act his age.

Songs You May Have Missed #855

CéU (with Emicida): “Deixa Acontecer” (2021)

Brazilian singer-songwriter Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças’ 2021 release Um Gosto de Sol (A Taste of Sunshine) featured a tasty take on a song originally done in 2001 by Grupo Revelação.

The chorus translates from Portuguese as:

Let it happen naturally
I don’t want to see you cry
Let love find us
Our story will last forever

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