Byron Bay-based First Nations performer NIDALA has captured my heart with her gorgeous new single “Said Too Much.” It’s an earnest folky love song that is so disarming in its simplicity and rawness. I felt this one, and honestly, that’s the highest compliment I can pay a piece of music.
“’Said Too Much’ is about dating and how it collides my worlds together! My ancestral heritage sees partnership as a central part in human-nature relationships, and my tech-ridden modern existence plays it out through online dating in a culture that fears deep connection,” NIDALA explained. “It’s about being confused, and being able to dance it off. I chose this theme because I wanted it to feel relatable and deeply human, and I wanted to paint my Indigeneity in the colours of softness it so rarely gets to wear in white Australia.”
“Said Too Much” comes from NIDALA’s debut, carbon-neutral EP Colours of My People, which drops on September 2. NIDALA will donate 20% of the EP’s proceeds to programs for planting trees and another 20% to Indigenous-run mental health and creative mentoring initiatives. Preorders are available now through NIDALA’s Bandcamp page.
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