Multi-Award-winning Indian Music Producer Amaal Mallik remixes Indie Artist Nikitaa's song 'Bad Trip (Sitam)'.

Multi-Award-winning Indian Music Producer Amaal Mallik remixes Indie Artist Nikitaa's song 'Bad Trip (Sitam)'. The two musicians who have collaborated in the past for a Hindi single titled 'Zindagi Hai Abhi' are back with a Lo-Fi remix music video. Amaal Mallik elevates the song with his magic touch adding beautiful synths and samples supported by cleverly sprinkled live bass and guitars. This Lo-Fi version will definitely win hearts.

Nikitaa is a Mumbai/Los Angeles (California) based Indie pop artist who has recently collaborated with Amaal Malik, the famous Indian Music director, composer and producer who won many accolades like the Filmfare Award, IIFA Award and others, in two consecutive songs "Zindagi Hai Abhi" and "Bad Trip (Sitam)". The lofi remix of the latter, which Amaal Malik voluntarily produced has been released, a week ago and already gained over 1.1Lakh views and still counting and the official music video of the original song was already released on 5th of May, this year. Combining Indian percussion with Middle Eastern influences, along with the pop elements and an ingenious sense of lyricism, "Bad Trip" has been receiving amazing response. 

Talking about what intrigued Amaal Mallik to work on this song, he shares, "What completely blew me about Bad Trip was its songwriting and the thought process that Nikitaa had to write a song about a Bad Trip and speak about the feelings in her heart and to put something which defines the world today, where sometimes wonderful girls come across men who believe themselves to be more than a man. Maybe someone on the level of a God. The way it's described in the song is beautiful. It was an amazing feeling to hear someone that I've seen grow as an artist right in front of me, put out new music that is so wonderful and so new-age. We previously worked on Zindagi Abhi, and it was one of the first times we collaborated. This time I messaged her, saying that I really love this song of yours and I would like to do a remix for it. She thought I was kidding, but I was very very sure that I wanted to bring my world to this beautiful song. She's a singer that has a lot of prowess and she's someone who's confident, which is extremely important for any artist. She speaks her heart and she has a distinct voice, I must say, because when I listen to the songs that are sung by her, I don't really get confused as to who the artist is, I can easily pick out and say that it's Nikitaa singing there. That's a very important and unique quality to have. I'm so happy that I can do this and work with younger talent from this country and put out some love and support from me to these wonderfully talented artists. I think Nikitaa is one of the really talented and futuristic artists who I think has a beautiful journey coming up for her. So I wish her well and I hope people love this remix I've done for Bad Trip."

Talking about the release, Nikitaa says, "Amaal was intrigued and interested in this song, and we decided that him working on a Lofi remix would be a wonderful idea. I feel like the remix elevates the song to a level of ethereal previously unheard from me in my work. Amaal is just as meticulous if not more than I am, I knew the minute we decided to do this that he would create magic and that’s exactly what he did! This is my second time collaborating with him musically and I feel like I always learn so much from his passionate and keen approach.

The former, "Zindagi Abhi Hai", which also released this year itself, on 25th March, is a beautiful concoction of Daboo Malik's highly realistic lyrics, Nikitaa's euphonious vocals and Amaal Malik's melodious music which, too, has won hearts of 21 Lakh people & counting.

High Priestess

Nikitaa also released other music videos of her original compositions, "Goddess", "Clutch", "Majesty", "Universe", "Wolf", "Farewell" and others. With over 18K monthly listeners on Spotify, the independent musical artist, Nikitaa, is reaching heights in leaps and bounds. Her album named, "High Priestess", which she released in the end of the previous year, is said to be a reflection of the archetypes she came across and each of the songs included in the album is to emphasize on the empowerment of women. She even worked in the popular Netflix drama series named "Masaba Masaba".

Seems like the singer is on a spree to build an impactful discography. It is part of her plan to continue to defy expectations and build a catalogue of self-penned material that will continue to garner fans throughout the music world. A born entertainer, with the ability to transcend language, culture and ethnicity, Nikitaa’s self-proclaimed mission as an artist is to break down barriers, shatter stereotypes and bring people together under the universal language of music.

Addressing her genre as "Goddess Pop", Nikita beautifully blends rhythm and blues with pop, adding a sprinkle of hip-hop that acts as the icing on the cake which emerges out to be her very own idiosyncratic talent.

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