The pop recording "Strong Girl" from the Philippines is featured on the album *Buzz*, which the singer-songwriter NIKI describes as having started with an urgent quake from the innermost core of her being. NIKI’s songwriting remains as intimate as ever, and *Buzz* reverberates with the hard-earned wisdom of a young woman who charges dauntlessly towards her dreams, but can still spare a laugh if she stumbles. The album is called *Buzz* because, as NIKI explains, it signifies that something is about to happen, the promise of something new that, while not yet real, hangs rich and sweet in the air—that millisecond moment in time, suspended in vast suggestion, where there is every opportunity for a shift in trajectory, small or seismic.