byby Bee Delores

Mandi Sagal and Lou Ridley deconstruct society’s ugly competition between women with their new collaboration. “Other Girl” peers through a relationship gone awry and how women are so often pitted against one another, when the cheating man is the one to blame. “Other girl to other girl, I hate that we’re meeting like this,” Sagal sings.

Melissa Barrera delivers a marvelous range of emotion as Laura Franco in the newly-released horror/romcom Your Monster. In a story about accepting and loving your inner rage, Barrera also delivers a show-stopping number called “My Stranger,” which arrives in the film’s final few minutes. “Stay for a touch, say what you feel,” she sings in the chorus. “Maybe too much, I want this every which way.” Her emotion pours forth like liquid from a stream.

Tiera Kennedy puts on the brakes with “You Don’t Get It,” a smoldering kiss-off to an ex-lover. With an R&B edge, the mid-tempo track tears down a relationship that died long ago and how the former flame assumed there wouldn’t be any consequences to such an abrupt ending. “You say you wanna have a conversation, but you ain’t gonna like what I’ma say,” she spits.