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# Josh da Costa - 96 Year Old Girl
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/josh-da-costa-96-year-old-girl/
- Published: 2026-07-05T17:55:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-05T17:55:42.000Z
- Description: With its driving beat, shimmering synth tapestry, and wonderfully off-kilter title, Josh da Costa’s “96 Year Old Girl” is impossible to resist.
- Author: Elke Nominikat
- Tags: Song Pick of the Day, Music

[**Josh da Costa**](https://new.glamglare.com/artist/josh-da-costa?ref=glamglare.com)’s “96 Year Old Girl” is hypnotic and mellow, built from a soft vocal, a rich tapestry of synths, hard-hitting drums, and a driving beat that keeps pulling you in. It is a song with a wonderfully off-kilter sense of humor, yet there is real feeling beneath its playful title: about pushing people away and the ache of not being seen by the person you are with.

> *“I wrote and recorded this song one night after getting really high, ordering Domino's, and watching Terminator 2\. The verse’s vocal melody is a riff on what is known in some musical circles as ‘the lick’ – an extremely common motif in jazz music that became a meme in itself – and the chorus was an old idea that I was kicking around for years and finally found its home here.”* 

The video takes its own full-glam, Japan-inspired route, and Josh da Costa explains:

> “I love singing the chorus because I feel like I’m caught somewhere between pretending to be Bobby Gillespie, Prince, and Peter Ivers. The instrumental features my usual bag of tricks - some jangly Gibson SG bits and my trusty SixTrak synth. Recorded in my bedroom, drums and all.”

“96 Year Old Girl” arrives ahead of Josh da Costa’s new album [*New Wave Graveyard*](https://ffm.to/newavegraveyard?ref=glamglare.com), out July 24 via Stones Throw. Listen to "96 Year Old Girl," our Song Pick of the Day, and watch the video, directed by Skellyot, too:

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