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2026 · From the album PRIMA
Nicole Kidman
by ADÉLA
The reading
A pop-star fantasy anthem that treats fame, sex appeal and self-belief as a performance the singer stages nightly in front of the mirror before the car pulls up
02 · Interpretation
ADÉLA's 'Nicole Kidman': Pop Stardom as Costume and Corset
The song is essentially a getting-ready ritual set to music. Everything happens in the loop between a mirror, a corset and a waiting car, and ADÉLA uses that small domestic drama to stage something much larger: the daily manufacture of a pop star.
The hook makes the reference plain. "I feel like Nicole" is tied to Moulin Rouge and a tight corset, invoking Kidman's turn as Satine, the cabaret performer who lives and dies by her ability to command a room. ADÉLA is not comparing herself to Kidman the actress so much as borrowing the character's silhouette: the boned bodice, the red-velvet theatricality, the woman who is watched. The prayer that her "tits are sittin' right" turns that image into a running joke about the labour behind the glamour. Being an icon, the song suggests, is mostly logistics.
The verses stretch that idea into a day-in-the-life. She wakes up and the "world is my buffet"; she flies out and wrecks another stage. The bragging is deliberately cartoonish, more Barbie montage than diary. When she spends hours in her room debating Louboutins versus Jimmy Choos and trying them on "fully nude," the scene is both a flex and a small confession that the performance starts long before any audience sees it. The line about her bra needing a bigger size, followed by the aside that maybe that is why men cannot meet her eyes, lands as a wink; she is aware of how she is being looked at and has decided to find it funny.
The pre-chorus is where the fantasy tips into full paparazzi choreography. She pulls up, steps out, tells fans to get their pictures because she will not stay long, throws a quick hi and is gone. "Live vicariously through me, write my life like it's a movie" is the thesis statement of the whole track. She is offering herself as a screen for other people's daydreams, which is exactly what a pop star, or a movie star like Kidman, is paid to be.
The bridge sharpens the tone. "Don't interrupt me when I talk my shit" is delivered as pop-star gospel, and the follow-up, that what you say dictates your destiny, gives the swagger a self-help twist without quite becoming a slogan. The punchline, "Pop Princess" on the license plate, is a small piece of world-building: she has already had the title custom-printed, so arguing with it is pointless. The song's confidence is written down in DMV records.
Fantasy as a working method
What keeps "Nicole Kidman" from collapsing into pure brag-rap is the winking self-awareness threaded through it. The mirror scene, the corset prayer, the driver waiting outside: ADÉLA keeps showing the scaffolding of stardom while performing it. The outro strips the arrangement back to a whispered mantra, "Tonight, I'm so in control, I feel like Nicole," which reframes the whole song as an incantation. The confidence is not a state she is in; it is a state she is talking herself into, one shoe change at a time.
The track sits comfortably inside a mid-2020s pop moment that has embraced maximalist femininity, from Sabrina Carpenter's stiletto humour to Chappell Roan's drag-inflected persona work. ADÉLA's contribution is to name a specific film-star archetype rather than a general aesthetic. Kidman, especially in her Moulin Rouge register, stands for a very particular kind of glamour: staged, corseted, doomed-but-fabulous. Borrowing her name lets ADÉLA plant a flag in that lineage without having to earn it through decades of work; the song assumes the mantle and dares you to argue.
Whether "Nicole Kidman" endures probably depends on how it functions outside the album. As a getting-ready song, a mirror song, a walking-into-the-club song, it is built for reuse. Its central move, treating self-belief as a costume you put on rather than a feeling you wait for, is small but portable, and that is usually what keeps a pop track alive.
Themes catalogued
03 · Lyrics
"Nicole Kidman"
Ooh, ooh, whoa
'Body with me (ooh, hey), yeah, yeah
Oh, you're so good
Ooh, ooh
Every single night
I pray that my tits are sittin' right
Moulin Rouge, my corset is so tight
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole
And every single day (ah-ah)
I wake up, the world is my buffet (ah-ah, ah-ah)
I fly out, fuck up another stage (ah-ah)
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole
I feel like
Ooh, spend a couple hours in my room
Should I wear Louboutins or Jimmy Choos?
Try 'em in the mirror, fully nude
Like, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh (ooh)
My bra should probably be a bigger size
Maybe that's why they can't look me in my eyes (they're up here)
Been a minute since the driver's been outside
I gotta slide, slide
I pull up (uh-huh), step out (uh-huh)
Get your pictures 'cause I'm not gonna stay for long
I'll say, "Hi" (I'm gone), bye-bye
Live vicariously through me, write my life like it's a movie, like
Every single night
I pray that my tits are sittin' right
Moulin' Rouge, my corset is so tight
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole (ah-ah)
And every single day (ah-ah)
I wake up, the world is my buffet (ah-ah, ah-ah)
I fly out, fuck up another stage (ah-ah;, Ah)
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole
I feel like
Don't (don't, don't) interrupt me
When I talk my shit, don't interrupt me
'Cause everything you say it dictates your destiny (uh-ah)
That's why I put "Pop Princess" on my license plate (ah)
I pull up (uh-huh), step out (uh-huh)
Get your pictures 'cause I'm not gonna stay for long
I'll say, "Hi" (I'm gone), bye-bye
Live vicariously through me, write my life like it's a movie, like
Every single night (ah-ah)
I pray that my tits are sittin' right (ah-ah, ah-ah)
Moulin Rouge, my corset is so tight (ah-ah)
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole (I feel like Nicole)
And every single day (ah-ah)
I wake up, the world is my buffet (ah-ah, ah-ah)
I fly out, fuck up another stage (ah-ah)
Babygirl in control, I feel like Nicole
I feel like
Tonight (tonight)
I'm so in control (I'm so in)
Tonight (tonight)
I feel like Nicole
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04 · FAQ
Frequently asked
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05 · Discography
