About this Song
NIKI’s commitment to unflinchingly personal songwriting threads through every track she releases, anchoring both the quiet vulnerability of her mid-career album cuts and the bold, reflective energy of her later full-length work, all rooted in her identity as an artist based out of the Philippines, working across pop and alternative soundscapes that balance raw closeness with broad, universal appeal. One of the most raw entries in her discography, Anaheim, first arrived as part of her album Nicole, released August 11, 2022 by 88rising Music, and it carries that signature intimate tone that defines even her most ambitious studio projects. Unlike what its shared name with the well-known California city might lead casual listeners to assume, NIKI wrote Anaheim not to reference that place, but to hold space for a far more personal story, one that carries so much emotional weight that the track remains uniquely challenging for her to return to when performing live.
AnaheimPrashant Trivedi
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