Lirik Lagu "Before" - NIKI, Refleksi Diri yang Diwarnai Nostalgia

NIKI bersama 88Rising dan Honda baru saja merilis film dokumenter

Baru-baru ini, 88rising dan NIKI berkolaborasi dengan Honda untuk memproduksi sebuah seri dokumenter baru yang mengabadikan perjalanannya ke Coachella, menceritakan detik-detik menjelang penampilannya yang memukau. 88rising adalah mitra media musik Asia pertama yang berkolaborasi dengan Honda dalam program musik mereka.

Seri dokumenter yang dipersembahkan oleh Honda ini menyoroti berbagai pengalaman pertama NIKI--mulai dari penampilan Coachella pertamanya, hingga menyaksikan perjalanannya di mobil pertamanya, sebuah Honda CR-V Hybrid 2022, mengabadikan sebuah momen pencapaian hidup--sambil merayakan akarnya sebagai orang Indonesia, mengingat kedua episode dari seri tersebut dirilis bulan lalu selama perayaaan Bulan AAPI.

Saat ini NIKI telah mengumpulkan lebih dari 1,8 miliar streams

Hingga saat ini, NIKI telah mengumpulkan lebih dari 1,8 miliar streams di seluruh platform musik. Single hit-nya "Every Summertime" yang merupakan soundtrack untuk film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings dari Marvel baru-baru ini menjadi viral dan saat ini sudah mengumpulkan lebih dari 220 juta streams dan yang terus bertambah.

Trek yang ditulis dan diproduseri NIKI bersama kolaborator lama Jacob Ray ini adalah lagu cinta yang hidup dengan nuansa nostalgia yang mengingatkan kita akan musik R&B dan soul klasik.

Lirik lagu "Before"

"Before" - NIKI

You hid me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew
across the globe, 22 hours just to see you
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
and talk about your cool new friend
who I never met
who you dated as soon as I left

Carolina autumn
It had been a year since I saw you, since we
Ended it, had a year to grow into the girl you always wanted
now we’re holding hands, as not quite friends, but not quite lovers,
but we’ll just pretend
You say "it's complicated to make amends"

Well is that the way that we’re headed then?
And you couldn’t answer me
Though you could pull me in while I brushed my teeth and let your hands both freely speak like I wasn’t ever gonna leave

You were all I’d ever known
And now I’m supposed to love you from a distance, like it’s nothing like its instant
and youuuu say "let’s just see where this goes"
And I don’t know how or why you seem just fine coz I’m having to grasp that you’re somehow not mine anymore
It’s so cruel how things are only almost like they were before

(ah ah ah) Like they were before
(ah ah ah) Like they were before
(ah ah ah) Like they were before

We walk downtown and it’s charming
You’re alarmingly disarming
Yeah we’ve got 48 hours left
before I fly back to my death
while you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
where everyone closes shop at 9,
where you could somehow finally find
what you were desperately looking for

Funny how you thought that was gonna be New York
with our chalkboard walls and slanted floors
Oh, we could’ve had that and so much more

Ask your new lover what it’s like to be given
a real fighting chance before you bid her good riddance
Did anything ever really count or was I just a two-year practice round

Youuuu were all I’d ever known
And now I’m feeling stupid, you’re forbidden
They say yeah we were something,
too bad we were children
Ooooh I don’t know where to go
and I don’t know how or why you seem just fine
coz I’m looking at you & God knows you’re not mine anymore
It’s so cruel how things will never be the way they were before

Like they were before
It’s almost just like how it was before
But it’s not anymore