Slovakia's pop moment has a face now, and it belongs to Adéla. Her sound leans into the 90s and early-2000s, but she sings it with a club kid's sense of humour. She calls her style "a little chaotic," pitched at a 22-year-old's sensibility, and she isn't shy about being horny or self-referential. Her single "Nicole Kidman" shows the trick. The lyric "baby girl in control, I feel like Nicole" is made to be shouted back on a dancefloor, and the video was shot in a gay club in Bratislava, hidden in a basement. Her live shows bring ballet-inspired choreography, a hot-pink dance rail and pink and red lighting. Around her, Bratislava's Aldea Club runs Millennials Night, a room built on guilty-pleasure hits from recent decades.
This month the WorldWidePop playlist added one video to the Slovakia page: Adéla's "Nicole Kidman." It is the only entry, so the page is a single-track snapshot for now, but the track carries a lot of weight. Her debut album *PRIMA* debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and "Nicole Kidman" climbed to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Critics say the calmer, mainstream-pop tracks on the album are aimed at a wider crowd than the harder, industrial sound of her earlier EP *The Provocateur*. Slovakia's scene is leaning towards that wider crowd.
Listeners commenting on the video are in the Philippines. Keep an eye on the next stretch of Adéla's run: tour dates in America, then Europe, and a fresh deal with Capitol Records.
Sources
- Millennials Night - Vstupenky na klubové akce, so 17. 10. 22:00 ve městě Bratislava - GoOut
- ADÉLA Makes Her Case For Pop Stardom at Sold-Out Los Angeles Show: ‘I’m an Immigrant’ - Urban Juice
- Adéla Interview on New Music, Bratislava, and Beginnings
- ‘That didn’t work out for me’: Adéla’s emotional shout-out to KATSEYE’s Lara and Megan, Emily brings back Dream Academy memories
- Who Is Adéla? Meet the Singer Behind Viral Hit ‘Nicole Kidman’ – Hollywood Life
- ADÉLA’s debut album establishes her as the next pop icon - The Miami Hurricane
- Adéla's "Prima": The Highly-Anticipated Debut of a Popstar With a Lot To Say - The Montclarion
- The baddest bitches ain't in LA, they're in Vogue. Cover star of the September Issue, Adéla, by Michal Pudelka | Vogue CS
The Slovakia scene on WorldWidePop – the music videos we are following from Slovakia, 1 and counting. Press play and let it run.
I feel like Doja should jump on this and do a Collab, please tell me I'm not the only one who hears it 😌✨️
♥ 35,716Where she at bro
♥ 257frrrrrr that's so trueeee
♥ 72Not hating on Adéla specifically, but this is such a clear example of how the industry still runs on the same formula for women.
♥ 56,502Almost every successful young female pop artist ends up in the same place: hyper-sexualized visuals, body-focused choreography, lyrics about sex appeal, and then the whole thing gets sold as “empowerment” or “owning her sexuality.” We’ve reached a point where mainstream pop marketing relies on adult-industry levels of explicit exposure just to capture attention, blurring the line between a music video and explicit content.
Meanwhile male artists can be sexy, dominant, or whatever without being reduced to the same constant body-as-product presentation. The double standard is still massive, we just rebranded it so it’s harder to criticize (and if you dare call out the double standards in the music industry regarding the sexualization of men versus women (and that women sexualize themselves or are sexualized more, you're called a 'prude' or 'jealous.').
Sexuality isn’t the problem. Pretending this pattern is total liberation is.
Edit: So question is - do we ACTUALLY choose completely by our own will to sexualize ourselves? Self-objectification is when you feel like you want to sexualize yourself, but it’s actually the result of years of media conditioning. You start seeing your body the way the media trained you to - primarily as something to be looked at and desired - and it starts to feel like your own authentic preference.
Research shows this isn’t just “personal taste.” Repeated exposure to sexualized media leads people to internalize that outsider’s perspective. Over time it can feel natural, even empowering, while quietly shaping how you value yourself.
Even if intention is different, her videos and imaging still reinforce the same idea to young impressionable audience - that women are bodies first.
The problem is women are still more likely to be presented as body first. I think it still reicforces the same ideas and it influences young women that women should be bodies and sexy (to men) first to have value. I'm not trying to sh. on women that sexualize themselves, I'm merely criticizing the societal standards imposed on us women.
And studies prove this, here's one of the most recent ones:
A 2025 automated analysis of 9,799 music videos spanning four decades found that women artists are more likely to be sexualized in their own videos. Gender inequalities in sexualization have persisted even as women’s overall visibility increased somewhat. Older studies cited in this research found women sexualized up to roughly 10 times more often than men on measures like sexual attire, body exposure, sexualized dancing, and being the object of sexual advances.
*Didn't know much about Adéla before I've seen this video, so recently I watched some interviews of her and other videos and I actually like her persona and her confidence and her expression. I'm saying both can be true - women should OF COURSE be free to express themselves in sexual way if they feel like it (although a lot of time through industry's or media pressure and internalization of the male gaze) and at the same time we can call out the industry's or capitalistic system's double standards between men and women.
Fr you don't need to show your body to convey the message that you're empowered
♥ 227So true!
♥ 123All the Nicole Kidman references in this music video:
♥ 1,593Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Scene where she slips off her dress
To Die For (1995) - Purple lingerie scene
Birth (2004) - Bathtub scene and birthday cake scene
Moulin Rouge (2001) - Scene where she sings fabulously on a swing
The Possessed (2017) - Scene where she dances on the smashed cake
Babygirl (2024) - Plate of milk scene and scene where she stands facing the wall
Nicole Kidman for AMC (2021) - Scene at the movies
She studied this shit!
Call her the KGB 😉
♥ 50I think her carrying the candles in the dark is referencing “The Others”
♥ 23I'm glad you embrace your natural pink hair
♥ 84,067@KpopWelovee girl.
♥ 37@Stanforpresident are you naive enough to believe this? lmfao this has been a common copypasta used by so many people/bots in youtube for getting likes
♥ 33In the span of two days this song has changed me drastically. I dyed my hair, pierced my nipples, cut off my family and stole every ysl lipgloss in Sephora. Thank you Adela.
♥ 16,113GIRL
♥ 1,313Iconic diva!!
♥ 320Being rejected from Hybe x Geffen was the best thing that could have happened to her, she is phenomenal
♥ 15,593Ikr, her songs are better then katseyes to be honest
♥ 511@itsPrettyGiovanareal like i can’t imagine Adéla singing hottie frutti or pinky up😭
♥ 357Edit: i don’t hate Katseye it just i hate the company 😢
Here before Adela gets her first Number 1 single and album
♥ 14,521She’s gonna be huge
♥ 161She got her no.1 in PHILIPPINES
♥ 96this is gonna be my mantra while I get thu this fuckin stage 4 lung cancer. thanks for giving me a calm mantra song to keep with me.
♥ 12,524u got thIS!!!!!!!!
♥ 459I hope you get thru it I’m praying for you 😢😢 and you’re definitely going to beat it
♥ 275Raising awareness about what happened at Cornell. A woman was sexually assaulted by 7 men over 7 hours, while a group chat included 57 fraternity members. Messages about her were shared in the chat, and the case has raised serious questions about why more people did not step in to help. She deserves to be heard, supported, and treated with respect. Her story matters, and people need to know what happened. GUYS PLEASE COPY PASTE THIS INTO AS MANY SHORTS AS YOU CAN‼
♥ 5,197Bro...not the fucking place. Weird
♥ 99Yeah, that's not what happened. Official documents and the girls own statements say as much. She was willing and even orchestrated more after it.
♥ 36There’s something so refreshing about a woman embracing her sexuality and expressing it entirely on her own terms, rather than for the male gaze.
♥ 2,985@u@user-uc2cx1kw3f bruh its from the movie babydoll which nicole kidman is in.. the name of this song lmfao do your homework pls
♥ 178No..
♥ 20SHE IS HUNGRY FOR THAT MAIN POP GIRL TITLE, I’M SO PROUD OF HER 💖💖💖
♥ 24,309OMG HI LIV IM SUCH A BIG FANN!!
♥ 40Yep and this album is a BANGER!! NO SKIPS! 😊💝
♥ 19The Dream Academy Judges were right, you being soloist was the path you belong.. LOVE YOU ADÉLA JERGOVA !! 💖
♥ 4,304Right some people are just meant to be soloists so they can have creative expression and are in control like Nicole hehe
♥ 171She's Best New Artist Grammys 🩷
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