When Los Angeles singer-songwriter Maggie Lindemann released her debut single Pretty Girl in 2016, she immediately hit the bull’s eye. It was a Top 10 hit all over Europe, clocking 550 million Spotify streams to date. That’s such a huge number, that some of her other tracks, with 20 to 50 million streams, almost seem like flops (which they aren’t, obviously).

On her funky new single, Lindemann tries a new sound, incorporating ska elements. In an interview with Billboard, she says that her love of pop-punk and ska hasn’t been represented in her music before, so she wanted to create a track that offered something new to her fans. “I love No Doubt, Panic! At The Disco, but I also love my pop music. So I wanted to give all of that kinda in one, my own take on it.”

Also looking forward to a remix Blink-182’s Travis Barker made of this track. But for now, the single version of Maggie Lindemann’s Friends Go is the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, giving it the most prominent position on this blog for a whole week.

In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

Werner Schlosser

Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.