Colours (Nadia Oh album)

Background

The album released 8 May 2011 was preceded by three tracks, Amsterdam Dub Version on 25 September 2009, Follow Me To The Dancefloor on 3 September 2009 and Colours, made viral in late November 2011. First single, Taking Over The Dancefloor gained recognition from DJ Scott Mills who gave it its first commercial play on Radio One, where it was also Popjustice's song of the day. Second single, No Bueno also gained Song of The Day stature on Popjustice.

Release

The albums original release was on 8 May 2011 featuring only 10 tracks including first single; Taking Over The Dancefloor and Promo Single; Colours. It later saw a re-release 18 September 2011 to include "No Bueno" (which acted as the album's second single released, 21 August), "Shade", "I Like It Loud", and "Follow Me", which the latter was released as a buzz track in 2009 under the title, Follow Me to the Dancefloor and failed to be included on the first release.

Music Videos

For promotion purposes several videos were made viral consisting of 'Oh performing select album tracks. The first being Jump Out The Window on 22 April 2011. In this video she is seen in front of ever-changing colour backgrounds while the songs lyrics scroll across th bottom of the screen with intercepting scenes of 'Oh being interviewed. Second promo video, Amsterdam made viral the very next day and in the similar fashion only without the interview and with darker colours. The final promo video was Soopermodel on 1 June 2011 and also followed the similar style of the previous videos.

Singles

Colours was scheduled to be released 23 January 2011 but was later cancelled in favour of Taking Over The Dancefloor. Released 24 April under the original title of Kate Middleton, it is notably for its use of the genre Moombahton. No further singles were released until the album saw a re-issue with four new tracks, one of which being No Bueno, the second single. It was released August 21t 2011 in the form of an EP.