Joy Crookes — Feet Don't Fail Me Now

After an 84-day absence, the South London singer-songwriter's slow-burning meditation on performative activism is broadly charting again today, tracked across 140 country and platform charts. The song's second life owes much to gaming: it soundtracked FIFA 23, a placement that turned Crookes into "that girl from FIFA" for a generation of players cycling through the game's menus, as her TikTok presence reflects. It has since threaded through screen work too, appearing in the Prime Video film Picture This and the crime series Wolfe. Musically it's classic Crookes — a smoky, string-laced soul groove carrying lyrics that skewer the politics of appearances. The track's recurring presence marks it as one of the more durable cuts from her debut era.