Oni Kidman Releases New Single ‘Fragile Little Egos’
Rising singer-songwriter Oni Kidman today releases her new single Fragile Little Egos. The song placed third in the Unpublished category of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) 2025, making Kidman the most successful Aotearoa New Zealand songwriter of the 2025 competition, as noted by NZ Musician. The same song also saw Kidman getting as far as the ISC semi-finals in the Pop/Top 40 category.
Kidman says, “Fragile Little Egos explores the battle between self-doubt and self-acceptance, navigating your way through ridicule and judgement from strangers online, and realising they’re not worth your time and energy in the first place.
“At its core, it’s a reminder that your confidence and self-worth comes from you, and not from the opinions of people who don’t even know you.”
Kidman teamed up with her cousin Maude Minnie Morris to record the single, and her forthcoming EP; Morris was the resident engineer at renowned Tamaki Makaurau studio Big Pop for 8 years.
Kidman’s Dad, renowned songwriter/musician/producer Rikki Morris, secretly entered Fragile Little Egos into the 2025 International Songwriting Competition – so its success came as a huge surprise to her.
Rikki Morris is no stranger to quality songwriting (among many things, he wrote the massive 1988 hit Nobody Else), and says, “Fragile Little Egos is SUCH a great song. That’s why I (secretly) entered it in the International Songwriting Competition. I KNEW it would do well.”
There’s also a gorgeous video for Fragile Little Egos, edited by Kidman herself.
Oni Kidman’s forthcoming EP If The Walls Could Talk is due for release on Friday August 21st.
