NIKKI Webster has returned to making music – with a grown-up, raunchy new image.
Webster – who is 22 – is about to release a new single called Devilicious, which is accompanied by a risque film clip of the type commonly associated with a Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera.
For Webster, it’s a far cry from the 12-year-old girl who wowed the world during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
On the new single she sings: “All the boys want to kiss me and the girls can’t resist me.”
Webster said the content of the song and film clip reflected her age – she was grown up.
“It wasn’t strategic, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh my God, we’ve got to make it risky’,” she said of the new look and sound.
“But I’m not afraid to say things.
“I’ve grown up now, I’ve experience a lot in my life.
“It’s a bit cheeky, a bit suggestive. But it has to be, the title is Devilicious.”
Webster recorded the track in Los Angeles and it is the first thing she has done musically in four years.
She spends half her time in Los Angeles after refocusing following some serious backlash a few years after she was the darling of the nation after the Olympics.
She said Los Angeles was a sanctuary as she thought about the next step in her career.
Luke Dennehy