Niki has given Chappell Roan a musical makeover that covers “relaxed” to his recent performance on As a versionThe prolonged segment of the Australian radio station Triple J.
Airing Friday, April 10 (Australian Time) The show was recorded in mid-March under the Australian leg of the Indonesian-born singers The sum The world’s tour. As tradition, the two -song set launched with an original that saw Niki deliver a violent reproduction of her “Female Rage” song “Colossal Tab”, which has become wildly popular among her fans despite not being released as a single.
For the tire part of the set, Niki turned his attention to Roan’s “Casual”, which had originally been released by the end of 2022 as a single before she appeared on her debut album The increase and fallen by a midwest princess The year after. As a result of the Grammy-nominated album’s global success in 2024, “Casual” topped at No. 59 on the Hot 100 in August.
Niki’s reinventing the track almost feels like something of a connection between Roan’s original and country pop in her March-Single “The Giver.”
“It’s definitely a song that I wish I wrote,” Niki explained in an interview after performance. “Of course I love the whole record, but” relaxed “was the one who really stayed with me at a personal level. It’s almost as if I want to have known these tunes all my life, so it just felt very well known and production is just so warm.”
“For my version of relaxed, we decided to speed it up and make it more of an early 2000s mood because we covered a lot of early 2000s bangers on tour,” she continued. “Just for kind of tie it to that universe of my The sum Tour, we like The sum-It it, I assume. “
After having first launched in 2004, As a version Series has gone from being an almost imprimpromptu acoustic affair to presenting larger study productions. Numerous artists have participated in the past two decades, like Billie Eilish, Childish Gambino, Arctic Monkeys and more reinventing classic numbers in the process.