Nadia Oh 'Colours' Should Be Revisited Again as WAYYY ahead of its time.

Apple Music recently recommended Nadia Oh's 2011 album Colours and while I was a dedicated fan of Hot Like Wow when it came out and we had hard hits like "My Egyptian Lover" and "Got Your Number" showing up on shows like Gossip Girl, I felt a huge surge of nostalgia seeing the algorithm recommend a forgotten queen once again.

The back-half of Colours is also a deep-cut classic. 

Don't get me wrong, we get some classics like "Amsterdam" at the front of the album, but once we hit the production of "Is That You," we are seeing the queen of hyperpop, long forgotten, I'm afraid, come back alive again. 

Even the reference of downloading a hot image of her from Blogspot like she was a Maxim Hot 100 of 2010s, the production feels super weird, advanced and more in line today with what we want in weirdness of pop music than when it came out.

Hannah Diamond, Charli and the PC Music Collective did not properly kiss the ring of Space Cowboy and Nadia for setting the framework for hyperpop music that feels fresher and weirder today. 

I am thinking a renaissance is on the horizon and Colours is a perfect record to have it; it's eclectic, a little less sex robot "I will do things" the way Hot Like Wow was/is, perfect #IMTHATBEACH vibes right now as the world burns; and has that reggaeton, cyberpunk vibe that makes us remember that there was definitely a recession pop sound that we are feeling yet again today. Burrr-appp!

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"Is That You"

"Hocus Pocus"

"Soopermodel"

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Heidi Montag just did a dance record that sounds like Grimes' Art Angels

Heidi Montag can be seen as a bit of a polarizing figure; if it isn’t her husband Spencer Pratt running for governor or her eating raw meat in the streets of LA (totally a thing that she did), then it’s her making dance records that do have some of the most problematic demon twink gays stan'ing her in their bedrooms like it’s still 2007 Blackout Britney vibes.

However, with her new album Masterpiece, she released just weeks ago in 2026, there are some songs that bring us back to the dance floor and make us remind ourselves that Heidi does know how to make a dance record. 

A highlight from the album that I have guiltlessly on repeat (separate the art from the artist, you know?) is "Up All Night"; a catchy, chaotic dance track that is literally about being up for 48 hours. 

What makes it unusual is just how much the song feels like a weird dance deep cut from Grimes' 2025 album Art Angels; it hypes up in the chorus to the same sort of jittery yelps you would almost hear from some of the standout tracks Grimes did during this album era; fitting seamlessly between a track like "Kill V. Maim". 

It’s a great track with nonsensical lyrics that I can’t help play on repeat while the rest of Masterpiece is anything but; although I am seeing some songs that could be seen as growers from the record. While I let those songs Chia Pet themselves, this one I'm adding to a playlist as I try to forget the crimes against raw bison steak this pop princess has committed.