For the singer-songwriter behind NIKI’s discography, every project begins with a truth that can’t be contained, a pulse that rises from the innermost parts of her lived experience until it demands to be shaped into song, and the work that would become her third studio album, Buzz, grew from an urgent, unignorable quake that shook the core of her being, pushing her to craft a body of work that reflected every layer of who she had become in the time between her last release and this new creative era. Her songwriting has always been defined by a radical intimacy, a willingness to lay her most unpolished, genuine truths before listeners rather than wrap them in a performative sheen that would distance her from the people who connect with her work.