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!
MY PICKS
"Is That You"
"Hocus Pocus"
"Soopermodel"
Welcome back, Nadia!
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