Nikki Yanofsky, only 20, has already made some amazing
connections and references from the music industry like Tony Bennet and Quincy
Jones who was the executive producer on her latest album, Little Secret. A girl
who was nicknamed a new Amy Winehouse by the French Rollingstone, definitely bears
a certain resemblance to the late soul jazz icon, although more swingy,
joyful, and although being on her own ground at the much higher register. Probably,
they were referring to You mean the world
to me, one of the best songs on the album. The first single, Something New, a Quincy Jones tribute, is
screaming retro,sun, fun and happiness, and may exude too much happiness at
moments. Waiting on the sun, a silky
summer tune, brings so many positive reactions, even though it may come across
as a bit loungy at moments, it still makes you feel good to the bone and makes
your day. Also, one more song that
stands out from the Blue Cantrell, Jazmine Sullivan pseudo-aggressive themes or
swingy finger snapping girl dance party themes, is definitely Out of Nowhere, non-forcibly retro tune,
where her voice gets to its best.
She is young, radiating, and vocally unstoppable, but is it
enough to make an impact the size of Amy or Duffy, I doubt so.
So, what’s lacking? Everything is there, in fact, there’s
too much of it. And that’s a problem. We somehow don’t succeed to find Nikki
Yanofsky within all this production boost, and even within her own self, her
voice is so good, but it’s just that, really good. Nothing wrong with it. And
today that’s just not working. Everybody knows it, you have to be average or
know and understand average to be great. So this amazing girl came across as a
teacher’s pet who can scat like nobody else on this planet, while she was only
listening to her older mentors, hoping to achieve immediate success, and hence,
got the’cute stamp’ and nothing more
than that for now.
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