Has anybody bought or checked it out yet? It just came out I think a couple of weeks ago, but I just started listening yesterday. It was supposed to have come out last Fall, but finally it's out. I hope music lovers don't sleep on this one, cuz it's really good. She's even more funky and passionate since her 1st release 'Everybody's Got Their Something.' It sounds more complete.

She gives props to Prince for his 'support, advice, and inspiration.'

Some Featured musicians: ?uestlove, Wendy Melvoin, Lenny Kravitz, Justin Stanley(who also produced)

Track list:

Till I Get To You
Cant'NeverDidNothin'
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

Give it a couple of listens, and you'll feel it.

I heard it and I like it.

7 out of the 11 songs are FUNKY and who else has put out an album recently with that ratio of funk?

Run out and buy it!

We've been talking about it here the last two weeks: http://www.prince.org/msg/5/146895

I wasn't in town when that thread was going, so I missed it. Doesn't hurt to bring it up again.

i'm not as thrilled with this album as i am in favor of her in general. i think she has great talent and really good stage presence - "like a feather" forgives anything weak she does in my book - but i don't think she's even gotten close to making her peak album yet. i hope she gets to make it.

Anxiety said:

I was a little let down with this album. I'm still spinning it with the hopes that my intial thoughts would change and I'm slowly liking it a little better. However, I favor Everybody Got Their Something, because for some reason it seems like she's trying a little to hard on the latest release.

This one is funky, but I prefer Everybdy got their something." This album doesn't capture me as much and I actually skipt through some songs, unlike the first album that I can listen to throughout

When she tours on her own, I definitely want to see how she brings these songs out with her tight band.

It's hard to compare especially when this is new and the other one is what we are used to. I'm open to let this one grow on me with each listen.

The first four tracks are great, and I like tracks 7 and 9 as well.

Sophomore jinx is tricky.

Still haven't taken the plastic off this one... or Audioslave... or Teena Marie...

CalhounSq said:

...wow...

Janfriend said:

... ...

CalhounSq said:

especially for Teena since her release is a year old, unless you just got it.

CalhounSq said:

heres a tip...if your not jonzed to listen to something right away...dont purchase it...



unless your supporting the artist with your green...then, rock on!!

Slave2daGroove said:

I tried, but it isn't out here in Denmark, yet.

My local wrecka store said that they'd have it in a couple o' weeks!
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I work in radio,and just like last time,her friggin lame ass record label is
doing NOTHING to promote this so far.Is there even a video?

JAMIESTARR said:

Sure. On www.nikkacosta.com. I tried playing it at work, but my computer there didn't feel like playing it, so I ain't seen it.

i'm afraid that where i'm concerned, poor nikka is getting upstaged by gorillaz and the white stripes....

This album was neutered

I am just being able to shake the fact that the promoted single before the release of the album is not on the release "I don't think we met", I kept listening to that song over and over and over. When I checked out the EPK it sounded as if this was going to be more of a funk/rock driven album, kind of like a solid experience. But the album was watered down from what I originally expected. I was really really excited about an all rock/funk album.

That said, it's a fun album. I really really love the rock/funk oriented songs but some of the slower songs could have been left off. There is nothing as epic as push and pull on here and the slower songs don't have as much meaning as I think she intended them to. The album could have been fleshed out as it's only 45 minutes long. An album that short should pack a solid punch and there is no TKO goin on here.

1 - Till I get to You: This sounds like a knock off of the originally intended single "I don't think we met". It's still fun.

2 - Can'tNeverDidNuthin: Catchy catchy catchy. This girl was born to rock

3 - Fooled ya Baby: I actually really love this song. It's one of the slower jams but it's great. Funny how lyrics change everything about a song. When I was first listening to this, not knowing the words I only made out a little here and there but focused on the "Fooled ya Baby" part and thought she was being a major bitch gloating how she fooled someone into thinking she loved him and when I read the lyrics it's just the opposite. Quite a sad song actually. Never having expressed her true feelings and now the guy is in love with someone else I fooled ya baby, made you think I didn't care.....when I really did.

4 - I gotta know: Another slow jam. I got really really hooked on the little portion of this song from the EPK and there is more production going on than I thought there would be. But I do love how she sings this song.

5 - Around the World: Uptempo, on the funky side. I think this is one of those songs that were meant to kind of save your soul and this doesn't hit me like "So have I for You", "Tug of War" or "Push and Pull". Those songs were just so amazing in their saving quality. The more I listen to this the more I'm connecting with it, but I don't think this will have anywhere near the same kind of meaning as the 3 I mentioned.

6 - Swing It Around: I absofreakinlutely love this damn song!! At first listen I thought this was a throw away jam and I think it just needed a good buzz cuz after 3 beers this song was jammin. I can't get enough of this song. Funky as hell and oozing with raw Nikka.

7 - Funkier than a Mosquito's tweeter: This album could have done without this song. The only thing that saves this for me is the kick ass musicianship in the second half of the song. I fast forward through the first half but I wouldn't have included this as part of the main album, I would have made this as a hidden track if it absolutely needed to be on here.

8 - On & On: Nothing meaningful goin on her except serious rockin and knockin

Make your mama proud like a real man should.
Scream so loud It'll wake the neighborhood
Gonna write a song bout the way you do it
Baby don't fuck around put your back into it yeah.....ooowwww!



9 - Happy in the Morning: Pure sugar pop. Absolutely delicious

10 - Hey Love: I think this is another song she wanted you to connect with like some of the more meaningful songs on her first album. It's not doing it for me. Might be that I'm in a different space than I was when her first album dropped. The album could have done without this and more funk/rock

11 - Fatherless Child: This is a nice song but kind of out of place on this album. Another song I wouldn't have included. Not unless she was going for a more eclectic sound which would have required for the album to be more fleshed out.

I prefer Everybody over this album. I like the eclectic nature of it and so many of those songs just did it for me. Like a feather, that song just never ever gets old and I loved how fresh it was when I first heard it. Unique and I loved that about it. Songs like Tug of War, So Have I for you and Push and Pull had so much meaning and are still favorites of mine. This album needed one of two things. It needed to either be a little more focused and cohesive or longer, fleshed out and more eclectic.

Overall I think I'd give this about 3 1/2 stars or a B rating. For anyone who dug her last album, I do recommend this. There is enough on here to thoroughly enjoy. It's not the follow up it could have been but it's still good nonetheless. I agree with what other people have said about Nikka. She is one of the freshest talents out there. Her look and her vibe, singular and unique. Her looks are somewhat unconventional, not the ideal beauty but she eclipses so many women that people would consider as ideal. She oozes this rawness, honest and sexy. She kind of reminds me of Joan Osborne in the power of her voice and her capabilities. She can go many places with her gift and I do think she does have a killer album in her. I love what I've heard from her so far and hopefully it won't be four years until the next release.

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

There was a single? And I missed it?!

scififilmnerd said:

Yes and you can buy it online but I couldn't buy it because I can't download the software to download it with I was just looking for it online and can't find it tho. It was a seriously slammin song. Gave me such high hopes.

Found it! go here:

http://envy13.com/archive...e_met.html

Scroll down to the bottom and click the real player link. This song should have driven this album. Remove some of those slower tracks, include this and other probable outtakes and this would have been kickin

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I can't download that!

But thanks. At least now I've heard it. Once...

funkyslsistah said:

I meant to get it when it came out, I just never did