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NIKI – Before
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“Before” is NIKI’s first promotional single on her sophomore album Nicole, which tells the story of her first short-lived relationship during college. While fans had speculated
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NIKI – Lose
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“Lose” is an emotional piano ballad which tells the story of NIKI’s bumpy relationship whom she wishes to be with, the Moon – even without any material love presented between them:
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NIKI – Backburner
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[Verse 1] / I can't lie, it feels nice that you're calling / You sound sad and alone, and you're stalling / And for once, I don't care about what you want / As long as we keep
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88rising & NIKI – Split
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[Verse 1] / It's a West Coast winter, sun's still a furnace / So I keep tanning, just never on purpose / I'm saturated in equal parts sun and doubt / So I turn the fan on high and
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NIKI – Every Summertime
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[Verse 1] / Eighteen, we were undergrads / Stayed out late, never made it to class, uh / Outer Richmond in a taxi cab / You were sweatin' bullets on the way to my Dad's / And oh
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NIKI – 24
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[Verse 1] / What do you know? / Suddenly, you're older now / They call you a grown up / With the dog and the bills and the garden / And the picturesque house / And the pear tree is
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lilbubblegum (Ft. 1nonly & 8Percent) – niki
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[Intro] / Nate / Hi, is this Prodigy? / [Chorus: lilbubblegum] / Asian baddie just like Niki (What? What?) / Lowkey she be freaky (Woah) / Every time I'm on a scene I'm leaving
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NIKI – Autumn
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[Verse 1] / I carved my name into your ribcage / We talked of lands away from this cage / You said, "Don't fret love / Someday I'll be my own man, I'll be free" / Oh, but darling
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NIKI – lowkey
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NIKI releases “lowkey” as her first single of 2019, a silky, delicate tune about keeping a budding romance under wraps.
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NIKI – Anaheim
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[Verse 1] / If I could, I'd freeze this moment, make it my home / You're all I want to want to know / I can tell, you mean it when you kiss me slow / But please, don't ask me, the
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NIKI – Plot Twist
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[Chorus] / Nothing stays the same and / Seasons keep on changin' as they do / [Verse 1] / Look what we got / A thickening plot / Just when I started getting used to / The thought
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Read All The Lyrics To NIKI’s New Album ‘Nicole’
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The LP features reworked versions of NIKI’s earliest songs.
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88rising & NIKI – Indigo
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“Indigo” is a single from NIKI released on August 13, 2019. It was advertised on NIKI’s instagram page 2 days before release.
The song is about NIKI’s adventure with a boy as they
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NIKI – Keeping Tabs
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[Intro] / Loser / Ah-ah / [Verse 1] / You left without sayin' goodbye (Fuck, fuck, fuck) / Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry / I ball a fist and die inside / I wish I didn
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HONNE (Ft. NIKI) – COMING HOME
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[Verse 1: HONNE] / I've been thinking lately how much I miss you / I haven't touched your face in weeks / I've been thinking how much I'd like to kiss you (Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh) / And
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NIKI – Milk Teeth
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[Verse 1] / Morning seeps through the blinds / And joins us in bed, and / You stir in your sleep / There goes fear embedding / What if I make you pancakes / But you choose to skip
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NIKI – The Apartment We Won't Share
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[Verse 1] / The apartment we won't share / I wonder what sad wife lives there / Have the windows deciphered her stares? / Do the bricks in the walls know to hide the affairs? / The
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NIKI – Oceans & Engines
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“Oceans & Engines” is the second promotional single for NIKI’s sophomore release Nicole—also being a remake of her original upload. In this song, NIKI and her partner must maintain
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NIKI – Take A Chance With Me
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[Verse 1] / His laugh you'd die for, his laugh you'd die for / The kind that colors the sky / Heart intangible / Slips away faster than dandelion fluff in the sunlight / And he's
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NIKI – High School in Jakarta
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“High School in Jakarta” revisits Indonesian singer-songwriter NIKI’s high school years. After revelling the challenge of maintaining a long-distance relationship and the end of
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NIKI – Around
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“Around” is NIKI’s last song on her debut E.P Zephyr and is heavily inspired by one of Niki’s original songs, “Little Souls”, which she wrote when she was 16 years old.
NIKI also
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NIKI – Switchblade
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Coined as “PHASE ONE of the MOONCHILD saga,” “Switchblade” is the pop singer’s first solo musical offering of 2020. The song features a very synthetic, glitchy pop instrumental
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88rising & NIKI – La La Lost You
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In “La La Lost You,” NIKI describes a significant other who left her behind in Los Angeles, or LA, for New York. The title is a play on words, telling her significant other that
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NIKI – urs
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“urs” is the second song on NIKI’s ep, wanna take this downtown? She sings about not being able to read how her love interest feels about her and that she’s left second-guessing
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NIKI – I Like U
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“I Like U” is NIKI’s second release under 88rising, and features production from labelmate Rich Brian and herself.
In the song, NIKI describes a friends with benefits situation
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88rising, NIKI & Vory – Plans
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The 6th track on Head in the Clouds continues the theme of summer love, and features
NIKI and Vory singing a laid back R&B ballad that essentially says love comes first. The song
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NIKI – Newsflash!
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“Newsflash!” is the first song from NIKI’s EP Zephyr. NIKI refuses to fall for a player, knowing what he is capable of.
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NIKI – Pools
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“Pools” is the 7th song on Niki’s debut E.P Zephyr. The song tells a story about one of Niki’s troubles as she sits in a pool of thought about what she did wrong to lose her lover.
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NIKI – Selene
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Taking a much more subtle approach for the second
‘phase’ (single) of the album, NIKI’s “Selene” is a breathy track that feels like a mature, underground jazz club inspired song.
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NIKI DEMAR – DEAD END
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[Verse 1] / From the outside looking in / We really had it all / I’d cry to my therapist / I knew we hit a wall / Rooftop parties in the city, you could’ve been with me / Oh I
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NIKI – See U Never
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See U Never is Niki’s first ever song working with 88rising. Niki introduces a new style of her music jumping from Indie to R&B. This song was released on Youtube on July 11, 2018
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NIKI – move!
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“move!” is the third song in NIKI’s second EP wanna take this downtown? NIKI explains how she finds herself in bad situations where she blames the other party for making her want
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NIKI – odds
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“odds” is the fourth song in NIKI’s second EP wanna take this downtown? NIKI explains in this song how much she wants this guy despite running into difficult situations that
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NIKI DEMAR – BEFORE & AFTER
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[Verse 1] / People Change, but sometimes I wonder, if I'm the one to blame / I watched you fall out of love / Tried to get us back / Back to what we had (what we had) / Look at old
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NIKI – Drive On
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The blades are dull now / The armour's dented / The water's cold and still like us / We shiver badly / Our teeth are chattering / But it's not out of fear this time / 'Cause the
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NIKI DEMAR – AMNESIA
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[Verse 1] / I get dizzy when I hear your name / Vertigo when I think about the plans that we made / Seein colors feel a little faint / Wonder what, where you been? / Who you with
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88rising, Joji & NIKI – La Cienega
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Nicole (NIKI) and George (Joji) sing together on this track dedicated to the glitz and glamour of stardom.
La Cienega Blvd is a famous road in LA stretching out from Sunset Blvd
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88rising & NIKI – Warpaint
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[Verse 1: NIKI] / Every time I turn my head / Lovers kissin' everywhere / Fingers runnin' down their thigh / They're just livin' the lie / Love is nothing but a Cowboy / Shootin
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NIKI – Dancing with the Devil
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“Dancing With the Devil” is track six on NIKI’s debut EP, Zephyr. The song was released on YouTube a week before the album was released, on May 16, 2018.
The song is about
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NIKI – Nightcrawlers
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[Chorus] / Nobody sleeps in this land of mine (Of mine) / Of mine, of mine / Nobody sleeps / Nobody keeps track of time (Of time), of time / Nightcrawlers springing up left and
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NIKI – On The Drive Home
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[Verse 1] / Love, keep your eyes on the road / 'Cause when I stare all I see / Is two foggy windows to a lost soul / And maybe, maybe it's all my fault / That it's so quiet on the
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