Ida Maria: 'Oh My God'

Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen had been circling around the UK music scene for nearly a year when she made her breakthrough with 'I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked'. Though the song's naturist-friendly lyrics only added to fears that the Norwegian rocker may be a little too self-consciously wacky and wild, it's scream-along chorus was simply too much fun to ignore.

Maria stands out from the current crop of hotly-tipped female singers because rather than electropop or indie, her roots are in dirty seventies punk - there's not a glitterball or synth in sight here. Her twitchy, inebriated-sounding vocals on 'Oh My God' recall Courtney Love and PJ Harvey, while her lyrics ("Oh my god! Oh you think I'm in control") touch on paranoia, self-doubt and anger. Scuzzier than a kebab joint in Southend, this is a thoroughly enjoyable two-and-a-half-minutes of punky-pop frolics.


> Click here to watch the 'Oh My God' video