One To Watch: How Nicky Youre got that summer feeling on chill breakout anthem Sunroof
officialcharts.comNicky Youre did not listen to music as a child. Not really. "I'm the baby of the family," the 22 year old viral sensation says, Zooming in from his home in the US. "My brother and sister always got to choose what we listened to in the car and stuff.
I wasn't really paying attention to music." Instead, he was a fan of movies (spooky children's film Coraline being a particular favorite, which doesn't quite fit the summer vibes, but we'll roll with it) - and a cinematic influence is something you can hear clearly on his brilliantly chill breakout single Sunroof, which is quickly becoming the song of the summer.
As much as it sounds like a modern-day update of the Beach Boys, you can also see the top-down car ride across the Californian coast, like a sun-soaked soundtrack to the most recent Paul Thomas Anderson flick, Licorice Pizza.
But what's surprising is that the feel-good bop was actually made when Nicky wasn't feeling at his best. "I was in my college dorm and I was really sick," Nicky tells us of the origins of Sunroof. "I was feeling kind of bad, so I wanted to make something that would make me feel good.
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