The Pop recording "Wide Open (Foreword)" from the Philippines acts as an introduction to an album NIKI describes as starting from an "urgent quake from the innermost core of her being." The artist chose the title *Buzz* for the album to signify "that something is about to happen," a "promise of something new, when it isn’t real yet, hangs rich and sweet in the air." She elaborates on this concept as "that millisecond moment in time, suspended in vast suggestion, where there is every opportunity for a shift in trajectory. Small or seismic. You choose." NIKI’s songwriting remains intimate, and the album reverberates with the hard-earned wisdom of a young woman who charges dauntlessly towards her dreams but can still laugh if she stumbles.