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Everybody Got Their Something

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This is a great album that explores many different textures and genres of music. In her debut effort Nikka Costa manages to do just about everything on this album:

she gets real gritty and raw on the album's opening track, "Like a Feather." The following track, which i believe is the best on the album, features Costa showing off her robust vocal range as she beautifully belts out the album's most beautiful chorus on "So I Have For You." Costa's vocals on this track give this song a snese of boundless energy and passion.

"Tug of War" is a bona-fide soulfed song, as Nikka shows great vocal restraint as she slithers through the sultry stanzas of this track. Costa makes this track even more interesting by complementing the song's soulful feel with symphonic and electronic elements. The fourth track, "Everybody Got Their Something" is a track that you will like five seconds in to it. This 70's sounding track screams funk! One of the album's best tracks, this catchy tune adds another layer to this eclectic album.

The next two tracks, "Nothing" and the short "Nikka What?", add extra textures as they are a beautiful ballad and a short track of record scratching, respectively.

"Hope it Felt Good" is an energetic assertion of a lover left jaded. Awesome guitars on this track. Lots of very interesting instrumentation with trumpets and saxaphones in the later part of this track.

"Some Kind of Beautiful" is a soulful funk track that will have you bobbin your head before you know it.

"Just Because" is a slower, blues tune. Costa lets her words lazily fall out of her mouth as I have only heard seasoned singers do. The next track is another solid effort, but next to all the album's other songs, which all sound very original in one way or another, this song seems kind of plain.

The album's closer, "Corners of My Mind", is a fitting end to this album. Costa turns the energy down a few notches on this beautifully bare track, which features a cello accompaniament and the gentle lapping of slowly running water in the background. This song seems to give the listener a chance to peacefully meditate and relax after 45 minutes of bombastic energy and powerful music.

I would highly recommend this album to anyone who is interested in hearing the debut of an artist who's music we will be listening to for years to come. Enjoy!

If you've seen that catch as hell Tommy Hil commercial and ask who is singing that funky soulful song...well look no further. It's music best kept secret NIKKA COSTA!! Well, she may be selling millions internationally and now she's honored us with her presence in the US with this rare gem of an album that makes you think she's Sly Stone and Janis Joplin's love child. She's definitely got the pure, exquisite funk of Sly and Co., and vocal hysterics of Janis, Tina, and a few other soul sistas. She's got the depth of Fiona Apple and the rowdiness of Alanis during her Jagged Pill days. Yet this is totally on some next platueau. She's like this ancient futuristic soul child coming back to ressurect a dying art. Like Erykah and D'Angelou trying to evoke the spirits of earthy soul, Nikka's trying to breathe new life to rock before it began to lose it's soul. Rock when it was funk-sweaty and bluesy as jazz, rock when you could understand the vocals and nod your head, instead of bang it. There are some beautifully-crafted songs up here, that tug at your soul and make you wanna dance all night. Thank you Nikka for this riveting, heavy soul stirrer. It's definitely time for real rhythms again. Everybody gotta have this!!

This is a great album that explores many different textures and genres of music. In her debut effort Nikka Costa manages to do just about everything on this album:

she gets real gritty and raw on the album's opening track, "Like a Feather." The following track, which i believe is the best on the album, features Costa showing off her robust vocal range as she beautifully belts out the album's most beautiful chorus on "So I Have For You." Costa's vocals on this track give this song a snese of boundless energy and passion.

"Tug of War" is a bona-fide soulfed song, as Nikka shows great vocal restraint as she slithers through the sultry stanzas of this track. Costa makes this track even more interesting by complementing the song's soulful feel with symphonic and electronic elements. The fourth track, "Everybody Got Their Something" is a track that you will like five seconds in to it. This 70's sounding track screams funk! One of the album's best tracks, this catchy tune adds another layer to this eclectic album.

The next two tracks, "Nothing" and the short "Nikka What?", add extra textures as they are a beautiful ballad and a short track of record scratching, respectively.

"Hope it Felt Good" is an energetic assertion of a lover left jaded. Awesome guitars on this track. Lots of very interesting instrumentation with trumpets and saxaphones in the later part of this track.

"Some Kind of Beautiful" is a soulful funk track that will have you bobbin your head before you know it.

"Just Because" is a slower, blues tune. Costa lets her words lazily fall out of her mouth as I have only heard seasoned singers do. The next track is another solid effort, but next to all the album's other songs, which all sound very original in one way or another, this song seems kind of plain.

The album's closer, "Corners of My Mind", is a fitting end to this album. Costa turns the energy down a few notches on this beautifully bare track, which features a cello accompaniament and the gentle lapping of slowly running water in the background. This song seems to give the listener a chance to peacefully meditate and relax after 45 minutes of bombastic energy and powerful music.

I would highly recommend this album to anyone who is interested in hearing the debut of an artist who's music we will be listening to for years to come. Enjoy!

I think Nikka Costa's greatest appeal is her gritty, style vocals reminiscent of some of the great R&B female vocalists but all her own. I think of Nikka as a cross between R&B, rock, soul, and funk. She's a unique artist with a lot of potential as Everybody Got Their Something proves. Like a Feather is the standout track because it's very different from the rest of the album. If you've seen the video, you have to agree it rocks!!! She reminds me a lot of Janis Joplin in many ways! Her stage presence seems phenomenal. I would love to see her live.

Nikka is at her best when she's rockin' the house rather than dishing out the slow tempo, ballady tracks. If Some Kind of Beautiful doesn't do anything for you, check your pulse. You're probably dead. Other standout tracks include the title track Everybody got their something, Hope it felt good, and the awesome Tug of war.

Ultimately, if you like soul divas with a rock edge than this is for you. Think Anastacia meets Prince meets Janis Joplin. Think great CD. Think great artist.

Nikka Costa has blown onto the music scene with her single (and cool-looking video) "Like a Feather". Her debut album is of the same high quality. "Like a Feather" is the opening track and in case you haven't heard the song, imagine a funkier sounding Janis Joplin style.

Other stand-out tracks include the heavy "Tug of War", the happy, clap-along title track "Everybody Got Their Something" (in which co-producer (and significant other) Justin Stanley is a veritable one-man band, playing all instruments), the slow and sad "Nothing" (detailing how there once was love, and now nothing) and the album closer "Corners of My Mind" (note: after this last track, there is about a 5 min gap of silence before the album closes with about 20 seconds worth of audience applause from what sounds like a jazz club).

All in all, a very convincing album. It is hard to believe that this is Nikka Costa's debut album. The confidence she displays in her songs would one expect this to be a middle-of-career album. Come find the familiar "Like a Feather" and stay around for the remainder of the album!

This was the United States' introduction to Nikka Costa, the goddaughter of the late, great chairman of the board, Frank Sinatra. How do you begin to describe Nikka? Well, for starters, she has been making music since she could talk (basically), and has a real flair for utlizing her wailing, quasi-Janis Joplin, quasi-Bessie Smith, uniquely Nikka set of pipes. Costa blends her strong background in R&B, with soul, and combines that with a funky, soaring instrumental.

Some of the highlights on this album include: "Like A Feather," Everybody Got Their Something" (one of the most popular songs on the album), and "Some Kind of Beautiful." This music will make you want to get up and shake it. It is very sexy and sultry stuff......*Two thumbs up*

I absolutely love this album. It's got funky dance beats and is just as good as Macy Gray's albums. All 12 tracks are excellent in their own way.

One <10/10> Like a Feather- This is that groovin song that they play on the radio and on that Levi's 501 jeans commercial. Get down with Nikka's sultry Janis Joplin-like vocals.

Two <8/10> So I Have For You- A soft rock jammer and a damn good one too.

Three <8/10> Tug Of War- A slower beat song but will make you get down anyway.

Four <10/10> Everybody Got Their Something- My personal fave. A simple beat but funky and groovin nevertheless.

Five <7/10> Nothing- A slow ballad that you'll sing in the shower over and over.

Six <9/10> Nikka What?- Just a cheesy little 25-second interlude with a good beat. Kind of a prelude to track seven.

Seven <10/10> Hope it Felt Good- Probably Nikka's most edgy track on the album. Adds a rock n roll flavor to it as she bad-mouths a cheating lover.

Eight <10/10> Some Kind of Beautiful- Second single. Very funky disco like.

Nine <8/10> Nikka Who?- Another interlude, this time 43-seconds. A young but still strong vocalized Nikka belting out a heart-felt song.

Ten <8/10> Just Because- Another soft rock song to be compared with track two.

Eleven <9/10> Push & Pull- A great easy listening track that you can still dance to.

Twelve <10/10> Corners of My Mind- A slow song that makes you think.

All & All, this record is awesome...

Peace.

Nikka Costa is the psychedelic 60's and soulful seventies incarnate. This album should not just be declared to be "blue eyed soul". We ARE NOT talking about The Righteous Brothers or Hall and Oats here. And one shouldn't even begin to call her a new millenium Teena Marie. This woman is in fact the embodiement of elements of Tina Turner, James Brown, Grace Slick and Janice Joplin. She screams, shouts and wails...and we love it! She brings forth the earthy soul which often recalls much of Tina's 60's and early seventies material. She gives us the rock and blues combination that made Janis Joplin a fan favorite with a little bit of Grace Slick tossed in for good measure. Not to mention the James Brown, microphone flinging histrionics seen in the "Like a Feather" video.

There is much to savor here. The first single is the wonderful, ear-catching "Like a Feather" which was seemingly inescapable on MTV2 and in the Tommy Hilfiger adds. Next is the majestic "So Have I For You" on which Costa recounts the longing and yearning that often occurs in relationships. On "Tug of War" the singer contemplates how her soul (heart) and mind go through the struggle of determining what's best for her. Equally impressive is the heart-wrenching "Nothing". Yet while the singer often touches on love, she is often at her best when screaming and letting her bitter feelings surface as on "Hope It felt Good".

In all, Nikka Costa should not be confined simply to the nether reaches of MTV and television advertisements. She should receive the acclaim here in the United States that she has overseas. Far more deserving than many of the dreary so called "rock and soul' singers out today, Nikka Costa is not only buzzworthy, but platinum worthy.

After hearing "Like A Feather" in a trendy clothing store, I searched high and low to find out who this girl was. Her CD was better than I expected and proved to be a wonderful companion on road trips from Chicago to Detroit. Her vocals are outstanding and her lyrics are poetic. "Tug of War" has to be my favorite track, it combines a bluesy sound with my favorite lyric ("there's nothin' I don't know, just hasn't come to me yet") rivaling what lyricists today come up with. I have yet to come across a CD that I can listen to in it's entirety, but this one comes close.

Somewhere between the Spice Girls and Britney Spears, the world seemed to completely forget what music was about. The bubblegum beats that have blasted for so long now on popular radio are becoming tiresome and blasé.. enter Nikka Costa with a CD of the most psychadelic songs produced since disco went out. In her title track, Costa proclaims "there's a time for every star" and right now is Nikka's time to shine!

With each track comes a new place to visit, whether a painful memmory or a happy one, Nikka can create emotion like only a very few singers can. Though the ballads could use some work with rythm, they stand substantially out in the adult contempo line. The CD is a breath of fresh musical air, highly recommended.