“Backburner” is a pretty dope song, because the lyrics honestly encapsulate the kinds of complexities that go along with being a jilted lover. Reading in between the lines the addressee, i.e. Niki’s ex, proved to...
What appears to be going down on NIKI’s “Anaheim” is that the vocalist has met someone, i.e. the addressee, who is an ideal romantic interest. And apparently, this individual is very much down to spark...
“High School in Jakarta” is a very-personal song, as there are a bunch of names dropped which aren’t celebrities but rather, as they would seem, real-life people whom Niki was associated with during her...
Niki has revealed that she wrote “Oceans & Engines” a few years back, when she was 17 and going through her first heartbreak. Said breakup, as inferred in the first verse, was not the result...
Whom the vocalist is addressing in “Coming Home” would most commonly be understood, considering the terminology involved, as a significant other. However, it can be more generally taken that (s)he’s speaking to some other type...
NIKI controls most of the airtime on “Shouldn’t Couldn’t Wouldn’t”. And she plays the role of a lady in a romance that is obviously coming to an end. Or more specifically, she has come to...
This track is based on a desire by the artist to keep a romance she is engaged in “low-key”. This is her way of saying that “no one’s got to know” that the she and...