Rooted in the textured pop landscape of the Philippines, where the line between personal storytelling and widely resonant, community-focused melody has long blurred to create some of the country’s most enduring pop works, Milk Teeth carries the same core urgency that fueled the creation of what would eventually become NIKI’s third studio album, Buzz, a project that began not with a polished outline or a pre-planned creative framework, but with an urgent quake from the innermost core of her being, a tremor so strong it could not be ignored, pushing her to turn the quiet, unshared truths she had long nurtured in her songwriting into work that could reach anyone who had ever felt that same unnameable stir of change on the horizon.