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'''Nicole Atkins''' is a singer/songwriter and occasional producer from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey Neptune City, New Jersey.]] Her music typically runs the gamut of alternative/indie rock, baroque pop, country, folk, and darker dance pop. Musically, she has been compared to singers like Music/RoyOrbison and Music/KateBush due to her often confessional lyrics about loss, heartache, and personal demons.
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'''Nicole Atkins''' is a singer/songwriter and occasional producer from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey Neptune City, New Jersey.]] Her music typically runs the gamut of alternative/indie rock, baroque pop, country, folk, and darker dance pop. Musically, she has been compared to singers like Music/RoyOrbison and Music/KateBush due to her often confessional lyrics about loss, heartache, and personal demons.
She released her first album ''Neptune City'' with backing band The Black Sea in 2007 to very positive reviews from critics but [[AcclaimedFlop comparably slim commercial success.]] This was due in no small part to her at-the-time label Creator/ColumbiaRecords seriously underpromoting the album. In addition to being more-or-less [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed over]] by her label, the pressures of touring took a massive toll on her emotional health. The result was the DarkerAndEdgier ''Mondo Amore'' in 2011. An album which, aside from its bonus track "Oh Canada", largely ditched the poppy veneer of its predecessor in favor of a more haunting singer/songwriter style with occasional experiments in punk/rockabilly and country.
She more-or-less continued with this style on 2014's ''Slow Phaser'', while incorporating influences from Disco and even Gospel Music. However, 2017's follow-up ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee'' saw her move away from the Indie Rock stylings of the first three records (per the suggestion of none other than ''Chris Isaak''), in favor of a more intimate folk-rock styling, heavily inspired by her [[CreatorBreakdown struggles with alcoholism and depression.]] Her latest release, 2020's ''Italian Ice'', was a straight-up alternative rock album with notable country influences.
!! Discography:
* 2007 - ''Neptune City''
* 2011 - ''Mondo Amore''
* 2014 - ''Slow Phaser''
* 2017 - ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee''
* 2020 - ''Italian Ice''
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!!Tropes Associated With ''Nicole Atkins'':
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: The song "Neptune City" is about a ghost attending his own funeral and looking back at what the titular city is now compared to what it was when he was alive.
* BreakupSong: "Kill The Headlights" and "You Were The Devil."
* DestructiveRomance: Both "Together We Are Both Alone" and "The Way It Is" are about settling for unfulfilling (the former song) or outright toxic (the latter song) romantic relationships.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Both ''Mondo Amore'' and ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee''
* DrowningMySorrows: At least a third of ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee'' is about this. With "Colors" and "A Night Of Serious Drinking" being the most obvious examples.
* HangoverSensitivity: "The Worst Hangover" is about a ''really'' bad hangover, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests.]]
* SarcasticTitle: "Girl, You Look Amazing" might sound like a positive/affectionate song from its title, but it's actually a song about unwanted sexual advances at a bar. With said phrase being uttered in a very unflattering manner by a random bar patron.
* SmallTownBoredom: "Cool Enough" is about this.
* WarIsHell: She has a song with this title, and it's precisely about that.
'''Nicole Atkins''' is a singer/songwriter and occasional producer from [[UsefulNotes/NewJersey Neptune City, New Jersey.]] Her music typically runs the gamut of alternative/indie rock, baroque pop, country, folk, and darker dance pop. Musically, she has been compared to singers like Music/RoyOrbison and Music/KateBush due to her often confessional lyrics about loss, heartache, and personal demons.
She released her first album ''Neptune City'' with backing band The Black Sea in 2007 to very positive reviews from critics but [[AcclaimedFlop comparably slim commercial success.]] This was due in no small part to her at-the-time label Creator/ColumbiaRecords seriously underpromoting the album. In addition to being more-or-less [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed over]] by her label, the pressures of touring took a massive toll on her emotional health. The result was the DarkerAndEdgier ''Mondo Amore'' in 2011. An album which, aside from its bonus track "Oh Canada", largely ditched the poppy veneer of its predecessor in favor of a more haunting singer/songwriter style with occasional experiments in punk/rockabilly and country.
She more-or-less continued with this style on 2014's ''Slow Phaser'', while incorporating influences from Disco and even Gospel Music. However, 2017's follow-up ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee'' saw her move away from the Indie Rock stylings of the first three records (per the suggestion of none other than ''Chris Isaak''), in favor of a more intimate folk-rock styling, heavily inspired by her [[CreatorBreakdown struggles with alcoholism and depression.]] Her latest release, 2020's ''Italian Ice'', was a straight-up alternative rock album with notable country influences.
!! Discography:
* 2007 - ''Neptune City''
* 2011 - ''Mondo Amore''
* 2014 - ''Slow Phaser''
* 2017 - ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee''
* 2020 - ''Italian Ice''
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!!Tropes Associated With ''Nicole Atkins'':
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: The song "Neptune City" is about a ghost attending his own funeral and looking back at what the titular city is now compared to what it was when he was alive.
* BreakupSong: "Kill The Headlights" and "You Were The Devil."
* DestructiveRomance: Both "Together We Are Both Alone" and "The Way It Is" are about settling for unfulfilling (the former song) or outright toxic (the latter song) romantic relationships.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Both ''Mondo Amore'' and ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee''
* DrowningMySorrows: At least a third of ''Goodnight, Rhonda Lee'' is about this. With "Colors" and "A Night Of Serious Drinking" being the most obvious examples.
* HangoverSensitivity: "The Worst Hangover" is about a ''really'' bad hangover, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests.]]
* SarcasticTitle: "Girl, You Look Amazing" might sound like a positive/affectionate song from its title, but it's actually a song about unwanted sexual advances at a bar. With said phrase being uttered in a very unflattering manner by a random bar patron.
* SmallTownBoredom: "Cool Enough" is about this.
* WarIsHell: She has a song with this title, and it's precisely about that.
