‘summer high’ is a homage to bliss-filled summer moments of abandoning your problems on the dancefloor and an anthemic celebration of women as niina explains: “I just want to really celebrate women – there’s so much incredibleness to being a woman and any opportunity I can take to empower myself or others is a good thing. I made the song last year and I actually envisaged the video for it really early on. It’s about getting fire in your tummy and just letting loose, going out and feeling limitless. It’s a moment of not questioning the world and blocking out anyone who tries to tell you otherwise.”

Trusting the process is integral to niina’s debut album, whether it’s lighthearted lyrical observations or tackling dark emotions, niina’s songwriting tells the story of a twenty-something who’s winging it through life and rebelling against the comedown of adulthood. Her unfiltered creativity and ambition is what sets her apart from her peers, combining the sentiment of her previous two EPs while also carving out new musical territory that sees her beginnings in alt-pop now evolve into dance music proper. An empowering, confessional album, it was written, recorded and produced entirely by niina from her bedroom and celebrates self-acceptance, creating a space for people to sing, dance, cry and not take life too seriously.

honestly, does this smell off to you?:

1. hi, I’m niina
2. there she goes!
3. girls just wanna have fun
4. finding bliss
5. answer to your problem
6. finding bliss (interlude)
7. limousine
8. dilute
9. body aches
10. summer high
11. mp3
12. 3 days

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Reintroducing herself as an enigmatic female collective, niina has become a shimmering reflection of our own human duality and a muse within her own right. A tongue-in-cheek flex of greed, ‘gimme gimme’ is about the hustle but also having fun in the process. It’s about the slow burn of trying to climb your way up within the creative industry and the camaraderie and good times that comes with it.

Speaking on the track, niina explains: “this track feels a bit wicked in character to me, I think the difficulties within the industry really teach you to have to be a patient, quiet force making smart decisions in order to win in this game. This track is about playing the game until we win, and of course, become very shamelessly wealthy.”

On the video niina adds: “this was a lot of fun to shoot. We only had two hours to shoot the video because (ironically) we couldn’t afford the limo for any longer than that. The concept was built around having a night out and the peaks and lulls that happen within this, it’s essentially a group of niina girls having a lovely time.”

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