When an artist joins Pepsi’s Music Lab, performs on Boston Calling’s Red Stage, and rocks a major arena twice in one week, it’s easy for outsiders to think that nothing fazes them anymore. But the right love interest can still make Oompa sweat.
Fresh off two performances at TD Garden — first for Governor Maura Healey’s inauguration, then a Celtics halftime show — Oompa drops her new single and music video “think too much” today (February 3). The Boston hip-hop heavy hitter confronts romantic wariness and relationship jitters in her first release since 2021’s UNBOTHERED, making her thoughts race to the beat of sizzling dancehall.
“[I] was writing these lyrics amid the anxiety of a new relationship,” Oompa explains. “You come in with all the mistrust and questioning and at some point, if someone shows you what you want to see, you have to let them.”
“Most these girls want something they can capture / I want something for this life and the one after,” she raps on the first verse, rekindling the same spark that made past songs like “By You” and “Go” so magnetic. You could even assert that the new single ranks among Oompa’s most vulnerable tracks — but then again, we’re not here to think too much overanalyze art.
Just press play on Oompa’s new tune below.
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