Nikka Costa - can'tneverdidnothin'
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Artist: Nikka CostaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Till I Get To You
- Can'tneverdidnothin'
- Fooled Ya Baby
- I Gotta Know
- Around The World
- Swing It Around
- Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter
- On & On
- Happy In The Morning
- Hey Love
- Fatherless Child
Music reviews of can'tneverdidnothin'
Music Review: Wow. Nikka Who? Jeez - Where have I been?
Rating: 5 Stars
I'll say it again. Wow. I dunno how I missed this girl - but I've got an excuse...
After gorging on free music during my very own High Fidelity period (circa 1991 - 1998), I purged myself of most of my CD collection and swore off buying any new albums over the intervening years. I discovered that even a few hundred CD's are a pain in the butt to pack and move, and - crazy - the damn things are EXPENSIVE. I won't listen to the tripe played on the radio, and other than the odd gift of an album here and there, I never really thought I'd get back into music.
And then my girlfriend goes and gives me an iPod for Christmas. Man. That quick, and I was addicted again. Thought I'd kicked the habit. Guess not - Since the end of December I've crammed that little gizmo with about 2500 songs.
So - to Nikka Costa's can'tneverdidnothin' (and I might as well include her first CD, Everybody Got Their Something, too, since this has become more of a recommendation than a review). On impulse, after reading the rave reviews posted here, I bought both discs. Can't really explain why - I rarely believe the hype about anything. And besides, the cover of Costa's first CD (where she's in a skimpy skirt, posing, swishing her butt and her swinging her head around) was just waaay to Britney Spears for me, and the cover of can'tneverdidnothin', with her wind-blown hair, wasn't any better. The thing has freakin' butterflies on it. Butterflies! Oh, Man. Seeing these CD's on a rack in a record store would not have led me to impulse buys.
But I listened to y'all; listened to a couple of the posted samples, and took a chance. Let me say, I don't quite get the Joss Stone comparisons that are flying around. I know, I know - they're both young white girls belting out what is traditionally black music, but that's as far as any similarities go. Their style's and chosen music genres are completely different. Stone is oriented in more traditional soul and R&B reworked for the teen set; where as Costa is the wild child -- a '70's blend funk and rock; some crazy mix of the Mary Jane Girls and Janis Joplin, sprinkled around the edges with some AC/DC. If I had to compare the two, I'd say that Joss Stone's voice is the purer instrument - I'd much rather sit down and listen to her stand there and sing, boring stage presence and all, but her good-girl image just ain't my style. It's Costa's balls-out funkalicious grooves that get me going.
It's something like taking the sweet homecoming queen to the prom, and then secretly getting seduced by her crazy, hot older sister after the party.
If you've been hemming and hawing about ordering this album, trust us. Really - would we lie to you? Go on, buy the disc. You know you want to. All I can say is that I'm jealous of those of you who've seen Costa live, and thank God for my iPod. Now I don't have to choose between discs - I can combine both of Costa's albums and plug the 'Pod into my car stereo, roll down the windows and do the white-boy headbob while I groove all over town.
Description of can'tneverdidnothin'
Japanese pressing of the vocalist's sophomore album, scheduled to include one bonus track. Details TBA. Virgin.Somewhere on a soulful musical timeline between Sly Stone and Joss Stone, you?ll find Nikka Costa. While many find chart success by putting out palpable but forgettable pop/soul mixes, with "can'tneverdidnothin'" Costa has once again written and recorded a funk/soul/rock mix that rises her above the plethora of pseudo-soul. Coming from a family tree with deep musical roots (her father Don was a well-respected producer/arranger who worked with Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.), Nikka Costa began her recording career at the age of eight, where she scored a European hit with her cover of "Out Here On My Own" from the movie Fame. For the next 20 years, Costa put out a handful of releases she herself has downplayed as inferior before coming into her first considered ?real? solo effort, the impressive, soul-filled Everybody Got Their Something. For her new release, the funk and rock has been turned up considerably; Costa?s shining moments of uptempo strength come via the funk-heavy tracks, most notably during the cover of Tina Turner?s "Funkier Than A Mosquito?s Tweeter", with its spectacular horn section. The CD?s other highlights come in the ballads, most specifically the disc?s two closers, the tender "Hey Love" and the raw emotion of "Fatherless Child" about the passing of her legendary dad. "can'tneverdidnothin'" is a disc that is rare in it's authentic, sincere groove, and it seems likely that as Costa continues to grow, so will the depth of her music. --Denise Sheppard
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