Momen pop Slovakia sekarang punya wajah, dan itu wajahnya Adéla. Suaranya bergaya pop 90-an dan awal 2000-an dengan kilau glamor dan gaya hidup mewah, jauh banget dari sisi keras dan industrial di EP sebelumnya, The Provocateur. Lantai dansa yang dia bangun adalah ruangan khas Bratislava. "Nicole Kidman" syutingnya di klub gay di kota itu, tersembunyi di basement yang dulu dia lewati waktu kecil, dan dia bilang musiknya memang biar pendengar queer di Slovakia merasa dilihat. Secara lokal, semangat yang sama hidup di malam-malam kayak Millennials Night di Aldea Club, pesta hits guilty-pleasure dengan kebijakan masuk berbasis gender: €8 untuk cowok, gratis untuk cewek. Adéla menyebut gayanya sendiri "agak chaos," disesuaikan dengan selera cewek 22 tahun, dan kelonggaran itulah yang bikin asyik buat joget.
Putar "Nicole Kidman" dulu. Lagu ini viral di Spotify, dan liriknya, "baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole," tuh tipe lirik yang bakal diteriakkan bareng di ruangan penuh orang. Terus lanjut ke "Ain't in LA", yang nyampe No. 27 di Billboard Hot 100 dan videonya kental akar Slovakia, dengan pesan kalau sukses itu bukan cuma milik orang-orang di Los Angeles. Album debutnya PRIMA debut di No. 4 di Billboard 200. Show-nya di Fonda Theatre Los Angeles tanggal 8 Oktober sold out, dibangun dengan koreografi terinspirasi balet, dance rail hot-pink dan lampu pink sama merah, dan energi panggung itu kerasa banget di rekamannya.
Pantau apa yang datang berikutnya. The Red Bottoms Tour jalan lewat tanggal-tanggal di Amerika terus Eropa, dan deal-nya sama Capitol Records berarti ini skena yang punya backing beneran di belakangnya.
Sources
- Millennials Night - Vstupenky na klubové akce, so 17. 10. 22:00 ve městě Bratislava - GoOut
- ADÉLA Makes Her Case For Pop Stardom at Sold-Out Los Angeles Show: ‘I’m an Immigrant’ - Urban Juice
- Adéla Interview on New Music, Bratislava, and Beginnings
- ‘That didn’t work out for me’: Adéla’s emotional shout-out to KATSEYE’s Lara and Megan, Emily brings back Dream Academy memories
- Who Is Adéla? Meet the Singer Behind Viral Hit ‘Nicole Kidman’ – Hollywood Life
- ADÉLA’s debut album establishes her as the next pop icon - The Miami Hurricane
- Adéla's "Prima": The Highly-Anticipated Debut of a Popstar With a Lot To Say - The Montclarion
- The baddest bitches ain't in LA, they're in Vogue. Cover star of the September Issue, Adéla, by Michal Pudelka | Vogue CS
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I feel like Doja should jump on this and do a Collab, please tell me I'm not the only one who hears it 😌✨️
♥ 42,534Where she at bro
♥ 294frrrrrr that's so trueeee
♥ 75Not hating on Adéla specifically, but this is such a clear example of how the industry still runs on the same formula for women.
♥ 88,597Almost every successful young female pop artist ends up in the same place: hyper-sexualized visuals, body-focused choreography, lyrics about sex appeal, and then the whole thing gets sold as “empowerment” or “owning her sexuality.” We’ve reached a point where mainstream pop marketing relies on adult-industry levels of explicit exposure just to capture attention, blurring the line between a music video and explicit content.
Meanwhile male artists can be sexy, dominant, or whatever without being reduced to the same constant body-as-product presentation. The double standard is still massive, we just rebranded it so it’s harder to criticize (and if you dare call out the double standards in the music industry regarding the sexualization of men versus women (and that women sexualize themselves or are sexualized more, you're called a 'prude' or 'jealous.').
Sexuality isn’t the problem. Pretending this pattern is total liberation is.
Edit: So question is - do we ACTUALLY choose completely by our own will to sexualize ourselves? Self-objectification is when you feel like you want to sexualize yourself, but it’s actually the result of years of media conditioning. You start seeing your body the way the media trained you to - primarily as something to be looked at and desired - and it starts to feel like your own authentic preference.
Research shows this isn’t just “personal taste.” Repeated exposure to sexualized media leads people to internalize that outsider’s perspective. Over time it can feel natural, even empowering, while quietly shaping how you value yourself.
Even if intention is different, her videos and imaging still reinforce the same idea to young impressionable audience - that women are bodies first.
The problem is women are still more likely to be presented as body first. I think it still reicforces the same ideas and it influences young women that women should be bodies and sexy (to men) first to have value. I'm not trying to sh. on women that sexualize themselves, I'm merely criticizing the societal standards imposed on us women.
And studies prove this, here's one of the most recent ones:
A 2025 automated analysis of 9,799 music videos spanning four decades found that women artists are more likely to be sexualized in their own videos. Gender inequalities in sexualization have persisted even as women’s overall visibility increased somewhat. Older studies cited in this research found women sexualized up to roughly 10 times more often than men on measures like sexual attire, body exposure, sexualized dancing, and being the object of sexual advances.
*Didn't know much about Adéla before I've seen this video, so recently I watched some interviews of her and other videos and I actually like her persona and her confidence and her expression. I'm saying both can be true - women should OF COURSE be free to express themselves in sexual way if they feel like it (although a lot of time through industry's or media pressure and internalization of the male gaze) and at the same time we can call out the industry's or capitalistic system's double standards between men and women.
Fr you don't need to show your body to convey the message that you're empowered
♥ 338So true!
♥ 204All the Nicole Kidman references in this music video:
♥ 1,927Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Scene where she slips off her dress
To Die For (1995) - Purple lingerie scene
Birth (2004) - Bathtub scene and birthday cake scene
Moulin Rouge (2001) - Scene where she sings fabulously on a swing
The Possessed (2017) - Scene where she dances on the smashed cake
Babygirl (2024) - Plate of milk scene and scene where she stands facing the wall
Nicole Kidman for AMC (2021) - Scene at the movies
She studied this shit!
Call her the KGB 😉
♥ 63I think her carrying the candles in the dark is referencing “The Others”
♥ 320:45 She knows what she's doing🩷
♥ 453BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMYS 2028 🩷
♥ 37@Bwu55 YESSSS
♥ 21I'm glad you embrace your natural pink hair
♥ 95,489@KpopWelovee girl.
♥ 41@Stanforpresident are you naive enough to believe this? lmfao this has been a common copypasta used by so many people/bots in youtube for getting likes
♥ 34In the span of two days this song has changed me drastically. I dyed my hair, pierced my nipples, cut off my family and stole every ysl lipgloss in Sephora. Thank you Adela.
♥ 18,796GIRL
♥ 1,634Iconic diva!!
♥ 338Being rejected from Hybe x Geffen was the best thing that could have happened to her, she is phenomenal
♥ 16,861Ikr, her songs are better then katseyes to be honest
♥ 540@itsPrettyGiovanareal like i can’t imagine Adéla singing hottie frutti or pinky up😭
♥ 387Edit: i don’t hate Katseye it just i hate the company 😢
Here before Adela gets her first Number 1 single and album
♥ 15,265She’s gonna be huge
♥ 170She got her no.1 in PHILIPPINES
♥ 98this is gonna be my mantra while I get thu this fuckin stage 4 lung cancer. thanks for giving me a calm mantra song to keep with me.
♥ 15,196u got thIS!!!!!!!!
♥ 506I hope you get thru it I’m praying for you 😢😢 and you’re definitely going to beat it
♥ 347Raising awareness about what happened at Cornell. A woman was sexually assaulted by 7 men over 7 hours, while a group chat included 57 fraternity members. Messages about her were shared in the chat, and the case has raised serious questions about why more people did not step in to help. She deserves to be heard, supported, and treated with respect. Her story matters, and people need to know what happened. GUYS PLEASE COPY PASTE THIS INTO AS MANY SHORTS AS YOU CAN‼
♥ 5,197Bro...not the fucking place. Weird
♥ 99Yeah, that's not what happened. Official documents and the girls own statements say as much. She was willing and even orchestrated more after it.
♥ 36The Dream Academy Judges were right, you being soloist was the path you belong.. LOVE YOU ADÉLA JERGOVA !! 💖
♥ 4,920Right some people are just meant to be soloists so they can have creative expression and are in control like Nicole hehe
♥ 203She's Best New Artist Grammys 🩷
♥ 49There’s something so refreshing about a woman embracing her sexuality and expressing it entirely on her own terms, rather than for the male gaze.
♥ 2,985@u@user-uc2cx1kw3f bruh its from the movie babydoll which nicole kidman is in.. the name of this song lmfao do your homework pls
♥ 178No..
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