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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!
Rochester, NY beat n’ rhymes duo Young Black And Gifted return! New single (out via all DSP’s now) “P.O.P” features a horn-laced heat-rock from producer Kidd Called Quest. Emcee Azariah and unofficial third member Jae Hussle spit that street level consciousness throughout.
As Kidd relayed “it’s really about people who always have an opinion on everything and worry about the next man instead of working on themselves.”
Stream/Purchase “P.O.P” ft. Jae Hussle: https://kiddcalledquest.bandcamp.com/track/p-o-p
This track is one of several singles that the group recently recorded with Jae Hussle that will manifest in the near future. Another recent single from those sessions “Victory Lap” is also out now
Stream/Purchase “Victory Lap” ft. Jae Hussle: https://kiddcalledquest.bandcamp.com/track/victory-lap
Prior to this Young Black And Gifted released an LP entitled, Once Again It’s On early this year though both members have continued to stay busy with solo work including Kidd producing Pretty Bulli’s album Then & Now as well as an instrumental album (with his brother Dee Jay Sight) Musical Karma as well as singles for Mook Da Truth, Indian Boy and more. Azariah released a solo LP Intermission 2.0, which featured appearances from Jae Hussle, Euphony Bars, Crotona P and more.
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