I am unimaginably excited to announce that my sophomore album “Nicole” will be coming out this August. Before I was signed as NIKI, some of you may know I started out posting original songs on Youtube. That channel became the birthplace of my artistry and through it I had my very first creative outlet & community. Some of you have been there since then! If you’re reading this, know your support made the dream seem a little less impossible. So thank you endlessly, I truly wouldn’t be here without ya. Many of you were disappointed when I took those videos down. Transparently, I think I was just running from myself for a while. But sitting with myself through the pandemic forced some kind of reckoning to occur and I re-evaluated what I actually value and yearn for in life, music included. Long story short: am now sauntering back to where I’ve always wanted to be musically! Some of you won’t like it - I understand! Some of you will - I’m stoked for you to hear it! Regardless, I always felt high school Nic deserved to have her songs published. So, with that (and in light of Taylor’s Version duh), I have quietly been re-recording & reimagining some of these songs that I still adore to this day! The first half of the album will feature both new & archived songs no one’s ever heard before, and the latter half will feature my personal favorite originals that used to live on nzee24 (& that many of you shockingly still remember!). This project is without a doubt my most favorite thing I have ever made as an artist. It’s where younger me and current me meet and hang and have a fucking blast together. No words adequately convey how stupid proud I am of it & every part surrounding it (more on that later...) And in true Niki fashion, let me just start by telling you how it ends. Spoiler: it is *not* happily ever after. “Before” drops June 3rd.