Photo: Joshua R Drakes

Nxdia

sun. 14th jan. ‘24

Alt-pop singer-songwriter Nxdia (pronounced Nadia) is one of those artists I’m super excited to be writing about. Just released on the 12th Jan, ‘She Likes a Boy’ has already amassed over half a million plays on Spotify alone.

This Egyptian-Sudanese born artist, now residing in Manchester UK, tells the story of their sapphic awakening in high school of liking a straight girl who likes someone else. & let’s admit it, we’ve all been in the situation of crushing on someone that likes someone else, it’s a gut punch. Nxdia perfectly portrays the frustration of their predicament with the repeating of “she like’s a boy, she likes a boy” and “i’m not a boy” cementing that unfortunate no hope as they can’t be what their crush is wanting.

‘She Likes a Boy’

Something I really love about this song is the use of Arabic which is something Nxdia loves to do in their songs. The Arabic lines sound beautiful between the English so even if you don’t know what’s being said, it just flows gorgeously.

Nxdia initially previewed a snippet of 'She Likes a Boy’ on TikTok which went viral causing an influx of people asking for the full song. This is one of the reasons I actually love TikTok because I find a lot of cool smaller artists on there and it can be a great platform for those artists to grow.

So I hope this year brings more music from Nxdia and I’d love to see them live.

To listen to ‘She Likes a Boy’ on Spotify, click here.
Find more from Nxdia on TikTok by clicking here.