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Q MagazineIt's the tender slow rollers that really clinch this supreme collection. [#180, p.97]
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Costa is a potent force with all the ballsy punch of a power rocker and the brazen belt of a sharp-tongued R&B survivor.
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An intoxicating starburst of self affirming R&B...
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For all the back story that precedes her, and even with an already overplayed first single, Everybody is a terrific debut.
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MixerEverybody Got Their Something has something for almost everybody... [Jul 2001, p.86]
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This effort from Nikka Costa proves that her ability to fuse rock, folk and soul with attitude will be her legacy.
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The best stuff here eschews tradition for sonic rebellion...
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The funk-by-numbers grooves of Everybody's Got Their Something borrow heavily from the likes of Sly Stone, Chaka Khan and early Prince, but do so with such affection and spirit that it's hard to take offense.
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In a just universe, Nikka Costa, with her near-perfect American debut, Everybody Got Their Something, would become the ‘00s answer to Janis Joplin, Teena Marie and Like a Virginal Madonna.
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Packed with classic R&B and making clever use of electronic/dance, blues, and rock, Everybody shies far from the bloated vocalizing and obvious production that have marked the genre of late, helping put the soul back into a previously moldering art form.
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MarvinfromPRApr 26, 2005