Everybody Got Their Something

Everybody Got Their Something
Studio album by Nikka Costa
Released May 22, 2001
Recorded 2000 at Electric Lady in New York and King Sound, Music Grinder, Glow2 Studios in Los Angeles
Genre
Length 50:11
Label Virgin
Producer Justin Stanley, Mark Ronson, Nikka Costa
Nikka Costa chronology

Butterfly Rocket
(1996)
Everybody Got Their Something
(2001)
Can'tneverdidnothin'
(2005)
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Slant Magazine

Everybody Got Their Something was Nikka Costa's first album on Virgin Records, released on May 22, 2001. Although she had released numerous albums internationally, this was her first release in the United States. It peaked at #120 on the Billboard 200.

The first single "Like A Feather" was Costa's biggest hit and was used in Tommy Hilfiger's advertising campaigns. The title track "Everybody Got Their Something" was used in the pilot of the television series Arrested Development, as well as the pilot of "Drop Dead Diva," the movies Blue Crush, Coach Carter and All About Steve, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nip/Tuck, and was used in promos for ABC Daytime.

The song "Push & Pull" was featured in the movie Blow starring Johnny Depp, and the video was on the film's DVD release. Prince covered "Push & Pull" on his direct-to-DVD concert Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas with the help of Costa. The track "So Have I For You" (co. written by the Beastie Boys) was used in the 2002 Britney Spears movie Crossroads.

Track listing

No. TitleLyrics Length
1. "Like A Feather"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, Mark Ronson 3:55
2. "So Have I For You"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Adam "MCA" Yauch, John King, Michael Simpson, Matt Dike 5:10
3. "Tug Of War"  Nikka Costa, Xavier Cugat 4:32
4. "Everybody Got Their Something"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley 4:20
5. "Nothing"  Nikka Costa 4:13
6. "Nikka What?"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, Mark Ronson 0:25
7. "Hope It Felt Good"  Nikka Costa, Mark Anthony Jones, P. Palladino, J. Stanley, M. Ronson 3:52
8. "Some Kind Of Beautiful"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley 3:05
9. "Nikka Who?"  Terry Ray Costa 0:42
10. "Just Because"  Nikka Costa 3:48
11. "Push & Pull"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley 5:27
12. "Corners Of My Mind"  Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, Mark Ronson, J. Zawinut, J. Rein, E. Marrow 5:50
13. "I Don't Want To Be The Rain (Japanese Bonus Track)"  Nikka Costa 4:39

Personnel

Credits for Everybody Got Their Something adapted from Allmusic[1]

  • ?uestlove- drums
  • Printz Board- keyboards, trumpet
  • Pat Burkholder- assistant, assistant engineer
  • David Campbell- string arrangements
  • Larry Corbett- cello
  • Nikka Costa- arranger, Celeste, Fender Rhodes, guitar (acoustic), piano, producer, vocal arrangement, vocals, Wurlitzer
  • Richard Dodd- cello
  • Russell Elevado- engineer, mixing
  • Mark Anthony Jones- guitar
  • Pete Magdaleno- assistant, assistant engineer

  • Pino Palladino- bass
  • Len Peltier- art direction, design, photography
  • James Poyser- clavinet, Wurlitzer
  • Billy Preston- clavinet
  • Tony Rambo- assistant, assistant engineer
  • Jeff Skelton- assistant, assistant engineer
  • Luis Sanchez- photography
  • Justin Stanley- bass, Chamberlin, clavinet, digital editing, drums, engineer, guitar, Mellotron, Mini Moog, producer, xylophone
  • Dominique Trenier- executive producer
  • Scott Wolfe- assistant, assistant engineer

Singles

References

  1. "Everybody Got Their Something - Nikka Costa". AllMusic. 2001-05-22. Retrieved 2012-05-28.