{"id":491920,"date":"2019-11-07T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=904940"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:47:13","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-niniola-omo-rapala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-niniola-omo-rapala\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Niniola, \u2018Omo Rapala\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_3592-Niniola-Photographed-by-Edesiri-Ukiri.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Nigerian singer Niniola reunites with the great producer Sarz on \u201cOmo Rapala,\u201d a propulsive new single released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>These two artists have a stellar musical history: In 2017, Sarz helped produce Niniola\u2019s \u201cMaradona\u201d and \u201cSicker,\u201d a pair of gleaming house cuts full of assured singing and compulsively danceable drum programming. \u201cOmo Rapala\u201d pulls from the same playbook, letting Niniola carry the melody while a skeletal, heavily syncopated beat throbs in the background. The only indulgence is a slick instrumental hook that seems designed to inspire popular dance videos.<\/p>\n<p>While Niniola borrows from house music, which often favors long builds over six or seven minutes, she keeps \u201cOmo Rapala\u201d concise and punchy, a tight three minutes and ten seconds. That helps ensure the track can work as well on the radio as it will on a dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>Niniola has been popular in Nigeria since 2014. Since the release of 2017\u2019s <em>This Is Me<\/em>, her international profile has been growing rapidly. After \u201cMaradona\u201d became a major chart hit in South Africa, DJ Snake remixed the track, Drake requested it on a live radio program, and Beyonc\u00e9 interpolated it on \u201cFind Your Way Back.\u201d \u201cSicker,\u201d which is speedier and maybe even stickier than \u201cMaradona,\u201d also earned the attention of Major Lazer, who included the track in a mix dedicated to afrobeats.<\/p>\n<p>As more music from Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/beyonce-lion-king-the-gift-album-afrobeats-859446\/\">gains commercial acceptance in the U.S.<\/a>, all this international attention puts Niniola into a strong position as she works on her next album.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/niniola-omo-rapala-song-you-need-to-know-904940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian singer Niniola reunites with the great producer Sarz on \u201cOmo Rapala,\u201d a propulsive new single released on Friday. These two artists have a stellar musical history: In 2017, Sarz helped produce Niniola\u2019s \u201cMaradona\u201d and \u201cSicker,\u201d a pair of gleaming house cuts full of assured singing and compulsively danceable drum programming. \u201cOmo Rapala\u201d pulls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 07:01:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}