Photo Credit: Colby Sadeghi
OH MY GOD - THAT'S SO ME TRACKLIST 1. The Wannabe 2. Picture This 3. Check Your Face 4. Oh Minutiae 5. Undulation Days 6. Help, I’ve Been Put Into Context! 7. And I Have a Blessed Life 8. My Berenice 9. Spacegirl (Shirley’s) 10. The Groke 11. Den Samme Jodlen 12. The Art of Poetry
Today, Black Norwegian-American pop auteur Okay Kaya releases her independent fourth album, Oh My God - That’s So Me. The album is written, recorded, and produced entirely by Kaya outside Oslo, Norway. The album includes the previously released singles "Check Your Face", "Undulation Days", and “The Groke,” which was highlighted in The FADER’s 'Songs You Need In Your Life' and The Guardian’s weekly playlist upon release, arriving with an otherworldly video directed by Julia Patey.
Oh My God - That’s So Me finds Kaya declaring, leaving statements without qualification; here, she’s not interrupting herself: she leaves her desires fully felt, her emotions experienced entirely (‘I wanted nothing more’). She lets herself fall back on comforting notions (‘One must imagine the rock happy’), and she’s just as at home in the minutiae (‘I swear I’ll pay attention / not just pleasure or pain.’). In the two years since SAP –– indeed, in the 6 years since Both –– Okay, Kaya has traveled a great distance; it’s taken her back to herself. To fake it till she feels okay is something she just can’t do anymore: ‘I’ll take the sensations, just let me back into my body again,’ she sings in the triumphant march in focus track, "The Wannabe". It is as if before recording the album’s final song, "The Art of Poetry," Kaya played what she had back and landed herself in the world of the refrain in a moment of recognition so overwhelming, so soothing, it needed repeating: ‘Oh My God — That’s So Me.’
An enduring ability to connect beauty with blunt day-to-day mundanity strikes Kaya’s songwriting as a once-in-a-generation skill. On Oh My God - That’s So Me, Kaya doubles down on the self-realized nature of 2022’s SAP, with much of the composition and production being led by herself, sometimes in perfect seclusion following the move to a new island home last year. Only accessible by boat, the island created a set of limitations, from collaboration opportunities to access to mainland activities, that became a tool for the creation of the record. Alone time enabled her to abstract concepts of multi-platform existence and the reality of navigating the make-believe in art.
WATCH THE "GROKE" https://youtu.be/e482VoyFHys
WATCH “CHECK YOUR FACE” https://youtu.be/hqg8Q5aYwdM
WATCH “UNDULATION DAYS" https://youtu.be/Tl-5kEINzz0
LISTEN/PURCHASE OH MY GOD - THAT’S SO ME https://onerpm.link/ohmygodthatssome
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