Okay Kaya – Oh My God…That’s So Me
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,” 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.’
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
9/5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Xanadu
9/7 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
9/8 – Toronto, QC @ Velvet Underground
9/11 – Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room
9/12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Ear
9/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
EU/UK TOUR DATES
3/10/2024 – Oslo, Norway @ Cosmopolite
8/10/2024 – Helsinki, Finland @ Kuudes Linja
10/10/2014 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Strand
15/10/2024 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Hotel Cecil
17/10/2024 – Berlin, Germany @ Quasimodo
18/10/2024 – Warsaw, Poland @ Bardzo Bardzo
19/10/2024 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Cafe V lese
20/10/2024 – Vienna, Austria @ Flucc
24/10/2024 – Milan, Italy @ Biko
25/10/2024 – Basel, Switzerland @ Gannet
26/10/2024 – Munich, Germany @ Strom
4/11/2024 – Paris, France TBC
7/11/2024 – Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
8/11/2024 – London, UK @ Village Underground
10/11/2024 – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
13/11/2024 – Bristol, UK @ Dareshack
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