Nikka Costa. Bobbi Wealthy
From the pandemic to her private life, so much has modified for Nikka Costa whereas she has been on musical hiatus the previous six years. But Costa, 52, is able to go away the previous behind and have some enjoyable.
“We’re all the time in our telephones and we’re being bombarded with information and drama and trauma,” she advised Us Weekly solely whereas selling her new album, Soiled Disco. “I actually needed to make a report that’s gonna be actually enjoyable to play dwell, simply actually optimistic and vibey.”
Nikka — who’s the daughter of the late Don Costa, the legendary music producer who labored with the likes of Frank Sinatra — has a singular, funky sound that infuses the joyful, dancey feeling of ‘70s and ‘80s music into the twenty first century.
One track particularly, “Dance N Overlook,” has the type of beat that makes you wish to go dance on the street — which is strictly what Nikka did within the track’s music video.
“We completely went rogue for this video,” she advised Us. “Me and Justin [Stanley, her husband] simply drove across the metropolis over a number of days and filmed on the iPhone and edited it collectively and it’s so nice.”
Nikka added that her son, Suede, who she describes as “a daredevil sports activities skater dude,” made a cameo within the video as properly.
“He’s positively within the music video, him and his skate buddies. It was so enjoyable,” she mentioned, including that whereas he’s solely 11 years outdated, he helps her with a few of the enhancing, too.
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Nikka additionally shares daughter Sugar, 17, with Stanley, who she collaborates with on a variety of her music.
“We now have all the time labored collectively, even from the start of our relationship,” Nikka mentioned of her husband, whom she married in 1992. “We all know one another’s boundaries and we’ve got actually excessive respect for one another’s abilities. And belief. He pushes me greater than every other producer I’ve ever labored with.”
One other standout monitor on the album is the primary single, “It’s Simply Love.” Simply in time for Satisfaction Month, the track emphasizes the common nature of affection, and Nikka advised Us it was really written primarily based on an expertise she had with a relative.
“I do know [homophobia] exists, clearly everyone knows it exists, however when it was so near residence … it actually shocked me,” she advised Us. “It was simply so merciless and I bought actual fired up about it. It simply pissed me off. I’ve all the time been, like, ‘Reside your life, do your factor, don’t care what different folks assume,’ however this [song] was particularly type of directed at this individual and that second.”
Within the refrain of the track, Nikka sings, “It’s simply love / Don’t make it a giant deal / All of us want it to heal / Don’t matter what sort of love.”
“It’s considered one of my favorites,” she famous.
The “Dance N Overlook” music video is out now and Soiled Disco can be launched on August 16.
