Nina Nesbitt has released the new single and accompanying music video – Summer Fling – available everywhere today. Stream the single here.
Nina Nesbitt’s acclaimed sophomore album, ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’, changed the game for the singer, songwriter and producer as she emerged as an artist with a global reputation. The album amassed a staggering half-a-billion streams and fired her into Spotify’s top 500 artists in the world, even name checked by Taylor Swift as one of the “newer faces in our music industry whose work I absolutely love” during her Woman of the Decade Award acceptance speech at Billboard’s Women in Music Event. She now follows that sensational career rebirth with a brand new single, ‘Summer Fling’, that sets her up for even greater things.
The sun-soaked, gloriously hazy ‘Summer Fling’ is a sun-soaked, gloriously confident statement of intent, all nostalgic ‘80s synths and knowing nods to ABBA. It was written and produced solely by Nina, whose half-Scottish, half-Swedish heritage feels apt for an artist uniquely able to balance bright alt-pop with confessional singer-songwriter lyrics.
“’Summer Fling’ is inspired by wanting to escape,” she says of the song, which was created in lockdown. “I always caught myself dreaming of going back to Sweden to spend the summer there, so it’s a fantasy of that world. Where there’s no stress.’
Directed by Wolf James (Bastille, Clean Bandit), the accompanying video for ‘Summer Fling’ is Nina’s biggest and most ambitious to date – a dreamlike imagining of midsummer love, which features dazzling choreography from Nina as she uses her background as a gymnast to deliver a stunning performance from an aerial hoop. Its an aesthetic inspired by her Swedish roots and feels intriguingly out-of-time – on one hand modern and neon, on the other timelessly vintage, but all the while fantastical and hallucinogenic. Building on the hard-won success of The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change, ‘Summer Fling’ is the first taste of more new music to come.
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