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Sohodolls turn up their pop side ‘Napoleon Baby’
New Sohodolls single ‘Napoleon Baby’ was recorded in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It’s a pounding slow-disco floor-filler that makes you want to dance – it’s definitely the most pop song on the band’s upcoming new album and the most pop-sounding song Sohodolls has ever made.
Inspired by Eurythmics’ ‘Sweet Dreams’, Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that Hill’, Girls Aloud’s ’No Good Advice’ (Sohodolls’ Maya Von Doll has written for both Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts) and Donna Summers’ ‘I Feel Love’, the Otabek Salamov (aka Needshes) produced track sees Sohodolls unleash a pop side that has been bubbling away in the background of their recent singles, but now comes fully to the forefront.
“The song is about the pursuit of ambition at all costs.” says Maya von Doll. “I talk about what pursuing a music career has cost me – friendships, relationships and even the loss of better financial opportunities”, she explains.
“I wanted to write and be successful above all else. I swore I’d never give up. But never giving up can mean subjecting yourself to more bruising and more humiliation. This song is a reflection on that irrational wiring. That’s why I linked the track to ‘Napoleon’ because there’s been a historic suggestion (whether true or not) that his ambition and drive was born out of an inferiority complex. So, in the song I’m imagining success and I’m imagining thanking my inferiority complex for the art I’ve created”, she reveals.
The result is a catchy, bass loaded, electro-pop anthem for wrestling all distractions and negative voices to the ground and continuing to rise in creativity.
Complete with a French spoken outro and some retro sounding synths by Robert Harder, who produced Sohodolls 00’s hits ‘Bang Bang Bang Bang’ and ‘Stripper’, the track is a departure from Sohodolls’ recent singles like alt-rock track ‘Bad’ which recently featured in Netflix’s top 10 series ‘Geek Girl’. An exciting twist, the track is brimming with the band’s trademark catchy hooks and seductive attitude, but ventures into different territories and is set to take both old and new fans on an odyssey through the 80s, 00s, back to 2024 and beyond!
With “Take Me Home”, Sunrise in Jupiter deliver not just a song, but a visceral, emotional lifeline. The second single from their concept album Mission to Mars Vol. 1, this track finds the band stripping back the cosmic theatrics just enough to reveal something raw and deeply human. Riding the wave of their viral debut “Satellite”, the band doesn’t play it safe — instead, they venture further into the emotional orbit with a ballad that feels like it’s been pulled from the very edge of space and time.
At the heart of the song lies a voice message — a simple yet devastatingly sincere moment between a father and daughter. That real-life inspiration pulses through the entire track, lending it a gravity that transcends the usual alt-rock fare. Lead singer and frontman channels that longing into a vocal performance that’s equal parts fire and fragility. “Take Me Home” doesn’t ask for sympathy — it demands connection, in the way only great songs can.
Musically, the band constructs a layered and cinematic soundscape, rich with glowing guitars and echoing drums that mirror the vast loneliness of space. The chorus hits like a sonic flare — “Don’t leave me empty-handed / Don’t leave me dead and stranded” — as guitars swell and synths shimmer beneath emotionally torn vocals. The whole track feels like a desperate cry hurled across galaxies.
Thematically, this is the perfect closer to the first chapter of Mission to Mars Vol. 1. It captures the conflict between distance and desire, between ambition and the aching need for home. Sunrise in Jupiter don’t just explore outer space — they map the emotional terrain we all navigate in isolation.
“Take Me Home” is more than a follow-up single. It’s proof that Sunrise in Jupiter are crafting something special — not just music, but modern myth-making. They’re not just telling a story; they’re sending signals to anyone who’s ever felt alone. And the message comes through loud and clear.
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