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Is Somebody Gonna Match Tinashe’s Freak?
The singer knew ‘Nasty’ would make a scene.
On Valentine’s Day last year, a bespectacled man known as Nate Di Winer posted a video of himself biting his finger and vigorously rolling his hips to soca music. Nine months later, a fan paired that clip with Tinashe’s new song “Nasty.” The edit, which has 10 million views and counting, started a TikTok trend that has since landed Nate a collab with Marc Jacobs and turned “Nasty” into the singer’s first mainstream solo hit since 2014’s “2 On.” “It’s such a big part of the success of the song,” says Tinashe, who’s hoping to link up ( as bad bitches do) with the U.K.-based Nate in person and incorporate some of his meme-worthy moves into upcoming performances. Since then, she’s dropped six albums (three as a major-label artist on RCA, two completely on her own, and one with her current label, producer Ricky Reed’s Atlantic imprint Nice Life Recording Company).
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