From Music 101 for RNZ Anna Coddington says the “genesis” of her new bilingual album Te Whakamiha was watching a dancefloor fill up for Montell Jordan’s This is How We Do It after she performed at a party. At the closing night of the Māoriland Film Festival, Coddington and her band had previously played “their most upbeat songs”. While the vibes were good, she says, they weren’t quite Montell-Jordanesque.
“The dance floor just like went off. Everyone was having such a good time. And I was like ‘I kind of want to make music people can do that to,’” she tells Charlotte Ryan.
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