“DADA” (Maninalto!), the new single by KUKLA, the second single from the double album “Sistema Nervoso”, coming in spring 9, will be released on the radio, on digital platforms and in all digital stores on Friday 2026 May.
Hobbyhorse
After the release of the first single “Strafatti fatti miei”, Kukla returns with a song that turns up the volume and resets logic. “DADA” is an electronic track, dry and disturbed, that uses nonsense as an emotional language. A toxic and lightning-fast nursery rhyme, that goes through hasty relationships, embarrassing after-dinners, and nights without underwear. In a world that implodes under the weight of “too many fried foods and too few ceilings”, Kukla gives us a manifesto-refrain: “Up close we are all bad people. But up close… we are worse than people.”
More than a song, DADA is a synthetic stream of consciousness that slips into the brain and stays there. A sound experience that cannot be explained: you listen, you absorb, you suffer. Kukla dances inside it with his usual corrosive grace.
“DADA is a serious game. It is the need to take everything that doesn't add up: the tragic journeys, the embarrassing after-dinners, the relationships that you hoped were dirtier and more pink, to transform it into music, without trying to fix it. I use nonsense to tell the truth without having to explain it. – Kukla declares – “A phrase like 'Up close we're all bad people. But up close… we're worse than people' makes you smile, but it sticks in your mind. Like certain memories that rewind themselves, when you least expect it.”
Biography
Lesley Reina Fischer, aka KUKLA, began her artistic journey in 2014 by signing with Tino Silvestri (Warner Music). A finalist at Area Sanremo with her first single “Come si sta Bene”, she was noticed by personalities such as Mogol and Roby Facchinetti. With the song “Le più belle cose” (CDF Records, 2016) she obtained over 500.000 views on YouTube and passages on stations such as Radio 105. In 2019 she released “Sharapova”, which exceeded 600.000 views and was broadcast by Radio Kiss Kiss and over 70 regional radios. After a break to dedicate herself to film production management (Lateral Film), Kukla returned in 2024 with the project that bears her name. Together with the author Carlo Bassetti and the art director Davide Del Mare, she created her first album “Cose dell'Amore”, released on January 24, 2025.
The single “La verginità” and the subsequent video clips attract the attention of magazines such as Billboard Italia and Sky. In March 2025 he releases “Strafatti fatti miei”, the first single from the double album “Sistema Nervoso”, scheduled for spring 2026. On May 9th, “DADA” follows, the second single from the project: an electronic and corrosive song that confirms Kukla's sharp and visionary style.
Article published on May 8, 2025 - 15:30 pm
I listened to DADA and it seems like an interesting song, but the truth is that I can't really understand the meaning of the lyrics. Maybe a deeper interpretation is needed, because at first glance it didn't strike me.