Nicki French has released a cover of Santa Claus is Coming to Town as her 2022 holiday single.
The Total Eclipse of the Heart hitmaker’s latest offering is a remixed take on the track, which originally featured on her 2017 mini-album ‘A Very Nicki Christmas’.
It’s backed with a bunch of remixes from Project K, along with new takes on her original festive track It’s Gonna Be a Cold Cold Christmas, courtesy of Sakgra.
The songwriter also penned Nicki’s recent single Haunted Heart and at the time she revealed the project “easily two-thirds” complete, with a 2023 release planned.
Revealing further details, she shared: “I don’t like to have too many covers. So when we get to three, maybe four covers, I say ‘no more’…
“There’s a lot of originals and at the moment. Many of them are written by Gordon Pagoda, who wrote On Your Marks, Get Set, Go Away from the last album… He kept sending us these songs, and in your brain you think, ‘OK, we mustn’t go with just one songwriter’ – but they’re all so good!”
And when probed on reference points for the new tracks, Nicki teased a “Motown sound” and drew comparisons to Stop Before You Get Me Started from her latest album, ‘Glitter to the Neon Lights’.
“I love the Motown sound,” she smiled. “That that’s something I tried not to say about Gordon’s; every song that he sent that said ‘Motown’ next to it, I was sold. So if you like Stop Before You Get Me Started, you’re gonna like the plans for the new album.”
