Nicole Kidman Sings Along to the Viral Song Named After Her

Plenty of people have lip-synced to the viral song named after Nicole Kidman this fall. Until Monday, none of them was Nicole Kidman herself.

Before Chanel's Spring/Summer 2027 show in Paris on October 5, the Oscar winner joined Pedro Pascal, Dua Lipa, and Kristen Wiig in a video for the fashion house's official TikTok account, as reported by Parade. Wiig took the first line, Pascal the next, Lipa the third — and the camera reached the actress last, right on the line carrying her own name, to cheers from the group. Within days the clip had passed one-point-two million likes, according to Fashion Times, proof that the full-circle moment landed exactly the way fans hoped.

The moment closed the loop on one of the fall's strangest and sweetest pop-culture stories. A 22-year-old Slovak newcomer, ADÉLA, wrote a cheeky song about feeling like Nicole Kidman, released it on her debut album PRIMA on September 4, and watched it become a genuine global hit. The actress, rather than treating the name-check as a joke at her expense, co-signed the track, talked about seeing the singer live, and then — in front of fashion week's biggest cameras — performed the meme made of herself.

Nicole Kidman Takes the Last Line at Chanel

The setup was simple, and the casting did the rest. Each star in the row took one line of the chorus as the camera passed down the line, with the biggest reaction saved for the end: the actress herself mouthing the line that says her own name. One fan reaction summed up the mood of the comments, writing, "So she does know the song!" — a line Fashion Times noted as turning her brief singalong into yet another viral moment for the track.

She also made the front row a fashion story of its own. Kidman debuted ultra-long curtain bangs at the show, brushed so far across her face they nearly hid her eyes, paired with a gray knit dress and black tights, as reported by Parade. She brought her daughter Faith, fifteen, in a gray Chanel cardigan with jeans — a day after her older daughter Sunday Rose, eighteen, walked the runway at Valentino. Wiig had a transformation of her own, swapping her signature blonde for deep brunette under a Chanel tube minidress.

The Chanel tie runs deeper than one show. The house named Kidman a brand ambassador in October 2025, more than two decades after she starred in its 2004 No. 5 campaign. For more star-studded fashion week moments, see GenZ NewZ's celebrity coverage.

The Fall's Viral Timeline

The track's rise reads like a blueprint for how a song travels in 2026:

September 4: PRIMA and its fourth single arrive together through Capitol Records, with the music video — directed by Hannah Lux Davis and packed with references to Nicole Kidman's film roles, from To Die For to Babygirl and her old AMC Theatres ad — dropping the same day, according to Wikipedia.

August 26 (pre-release): Asked about the song at the London premiere of Practical Magic 2, Kidman said she knew who the singer was and planned to see her perform in Nashville. The next day she made her TikTok debut with a video soundtracked by ADÉLA's earlier single, according to Parade — the first public co-sign.

September 21: The single hits number two on Spotify's Daily Top Songs Global chart, with "Ain't in LA" right behind at number three, according to Universal Music as reported by Parade. It climbs to number three on Billboard's worldwide song ranking and lands in the top ten across Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, and the UK — and goes all the way to number one in Greece, per Wikipedia.

Late September: PRIMA debuts at number four on the Billboard 200, the U.S. albums chart, making the 22-year-old a genuine chart force beyond a single viral song, according to Parade.

October 4: Still no cooldown — the track sits at number three on Spotify's daily global chart with nearly three-point-three million streams in a single day, as reported by Parade.

October 5: The Chanel TikTok. Nicole Kidman finally performs the line with her name in it, flanked by three more stars.

October 6: The single is officially sent to U.S. rhythmic radio, per Wikipedia — the moment a viral hit graduates into an industry campaign.

A Song Built on the Nicole Kidman Effect

The inspiration was playful rather than calculated. ADÉLA told W Magazine that after watching Eyes Wide Shut, she attended a Golden Globes party in a tight corset and had a sudden thought: "I feel like Nicole Kidman right now," as reported by Parade. She later described the night to Capital as pure glamour, recalling the thought, "This is glamour. This is Nicole," which became the song's spark.

Crucially, the name didn't arrive uninvited. The singer and her team asked the actress for her approval before releasing a track that repeats her full name — and she gave it her blessing, according to Fashion Times, citing Billboard. On The Tonight Show, Kidman praised the video's whirlwind tour through her filmography, saying, "She's so talented," per a roundup on Wikipedia.

The connection makes a neat kind of sense when you remember that the actress has been inside pop music before — from the inside. Back in 2001 she teamed up with Robbie Williams on "Somethin' Stupid," which spent three weeks at number one in the UK and became that year's Christmas chart-topper, according to Parade. Twenty-five years later, she doesn't even have to sing to be at the center of a pop hit — and then, in Paris, she sang anyway.

That's the real story underneath the chart math. The fantasy the song sells — step into the corset, feel like her for three minutes — only works because the actress herself is in on it. ADÉLA's ascent joins a crowded class of breakout stars turning heads this fall, like the acts leading TIME's rising-stars list, but few debut campaigns have come with the muse herself handing over the crown. A singer wrote a song about Nicole Kidman. Kidman approved it, shared it, joked about it — and finally, in a Chanel front row with Dua Lipa cheering beside her, Nicole Kidman sang it back.