{"id":39843,"date":"2018-08-30T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=39843"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:20:45","slug":"nya-southland-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/08\/nya-southland-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"NYA &#8211; &#8216;SOUTHLAND&#8217; EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?s=nya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>We&#8217;ve written about NYA before<\/strong><\/a><strong> with her releases &#8216;Let Go&#8217; and &#8216;Mania&#8217; last year. Now she&#8217;s back with her latest EP, &#8216;Southland&#8217;, which takes her into a more adult headspace.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still experimenting with genre, the three tracks on &#8216;Southland&#8217; sees NYA singing a classic ballad with &#8216;Shallow&#8217; &#8211; a need for connection which falls on the side of destructive; &#8216;For Your Loe&#8217;, a sultry track which focuses on the two extremes of love and desire; and finally &#8216;Hollywood Hills&#8217;, an ethereal track on which she reflects about the reality which all too often shows its face above our dreams. With its SoCal sound, it&#8217;s the perfect track for NYA, who originally from Florida, nowadays divides her time between New York, and Los Angeles, and is busily discovering who she really is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find out more about Nya online on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisnya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thisisnya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thisisnya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/blog\/thisisnyay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/thisisnya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Southland by Thisisnya - Official\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F563244351&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;secret_token=s-Jyyft\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about NYA before with her releases &#8216;Let Go&#8217; and &#8216;Mania&#8217; last year. Now she&#8217;s back with her latest EP, &#8216;Southland&#8217;, which takes her into a more adult headspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[2485,2135,2923,16300,16209,27,939,77,370,180,11211,16299,16298],"class_list":["post-39843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-ballad","tag-ethereal","tag-florida","tag-for-your-love","tag-hollywood-hills","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-ep","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-york","tag-nya","tag-shallow","tag-southland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-amD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49223,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/04\/nya-love-you-to-death\/","url_meta":{"origin":39843,"position":0},"title":"Nya &#8211; &#8216;Love You To Death&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"19\/04\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We've been following Nya's career for a number of years now, starting with her single, 'Let Go', back in September 2017, right up to her EP, 'Southland', which she released last August. 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