Name: NIKI談為泰勒-斯威夫特開場，在YouTube上的成長以及Moonchild專輯｜《Harper's BAZAAR》。 (NIKI Talks Opening For Taylor Swift, Growing Up on YouTube & Moonchild Album | Harper's BAZAAR)
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過去簡單式

- I knew that I was gonna be involved in music somehow,

過去進行式

I just didn't really know how I was gonna get there.

Living in Indonesia, being born in Jakarta,

I have been singing for as long as I can remember

I would say I identified as a singer-singer

When I started my career professionally, singing,

my family was, I honestly, I'm sorry mom and dad

but I kind of signed my first contract behind their backs.

it was more so that they didn't understand

because obviously they came from a different generation

and it just was difficult to wrap their head around.

It just sort of took a few conversations for them

to ultimately kind of understand where I was coming from.

♪ Oh, I'm in love, I'm in love with you, boy ♪

I don't know how I managed to win that Taylor Swift contest

but I got involved because my mom had sent me a flyer

and she was like, no, no, no, this is real!

of just like, and everybody's faces at that point

kind of like, they just kind of blur into one in a way,

and also you have like the blinding lights on you

and it just kind of, that experience solidified my love

for performing and that's when I kind of realized, like,

but when you're up there and the adrenaline's rushing

♪ If I could, I'd freeze this moment ♪

♪ You're all I want to want to know ♪

How I got involved with YouTube is kind of a loaded answer

people were curious about me and people just wanted to know

if I wrote songs and they just wanted to know about me

and so I think one of my very first YouTube videos

of life after the concert and what I was up to

and then that kind of catalyzed me just feeling really

prompted to kind of share my original songs on there.

YouTube just kind of allowed for this, you know,

it just felt like a community where people

supported my endeavors and they supported my dreams

I had no plan, really, but my immediate plan

was obviously the traditional route of going to college,

I actually released "See You Never" before I went to college

that's how I first got involved with 88rising

and the story behind "See You Never" was also pretty funny

my producer friend who I was working on the song with

and I said, you know, how crazy would it be

Pipe dream-type, you know, this type of conversation

and then it happened and I was just kinda like, what?

And yeah, that started my relationship with 88

and it just kind of snowballed into like,

hey, come out to L.A., we wanna work with you

I wasn't going to class and it got to a point

where I was literally between Nashville and L.A.

every single week and I just kinda decided, like,

and I already know that this is kind of what I want to do

in the future anyway so I just kind of went out on a limb

My latest single "Switchblade" kind of talks about that

♪ This place, the skies are vast and no one's ♪

The release of Zephyr was honestly insane,

I had no idea in terms of how it was going to catalyze

my career from then on and how it was going to affect

and what kind of fans I attracted and just like,

you know, just basically built the, how it was gonna build

the foundation in which I, you know, grew my career.

it was just so positive and people were so excited to see

especially within the Asian market, Asian Americans,

Asians in Asia, Asians everywhere just kind of,

I received an overwhelming amount of responses

just saying, like, hey, thanks for representing me

NIKI談為泰勒-斯威夫特開場，在YouTube上的成長以及Moonchild專輯｜《Harper's BAZAAR》。 (NIKI Talks Opening For Taylor Swift, Growing Up on YouTube & Moonchild Album | Harper's BAZAAR)