Riiki Reid Ignites An Endless Summer With Intoxicating New Single ‘Over Romantic’
Back with her first new music since last year’s acclaimed EP Skin, Aotearoa singer-songwriter Riiki Reid (Ngāti Porou) has shared new single Over Romantic, the first taste of an upcoming project, arriving just in time to soundtrack the Summer season.
Written and produced in collaboration with Robby De Sa (The Veronicas, MAY-A, Coterie ), Phoebe Sinclair (Peptalk), and Liam Quinn (Ruel , Sigala, Peach PRC, Rita Ora), Over Romantic embodies the essence of a summer romance.
Over Romantic follows this story of meeting someone for the first time in the summer, but really, it’s just about romanticizing the summer. I would love this song to feel like that for people, because that’s how it feels for me.”
With her sun-kissed melodies floating over glittering guitar chords and tension building drums, Riiki Reid drifts away to a rose-tinted paradise drenched in infatuation and enchantment, singing on the vibrant hook, “sun drunk, in love, kiss me like you do, tell me that I’m pretty and I might not sober up”.
“I want this song to be the memento you take away from your summer,” Riiki Reid reflects on Over Romantic. “I always end up having a song every summer, where I’m like, that song was the song that reminds me of summer 2017’.
After establishing her multifaceted artistry and wide-spanning influences between dream-pop, gritty guitar-rock, and dance with the multidimensional artist’s trilogy of EP’s Newer Oxygen, Crash & Collide, and Skin, Riiki Reid is entering 2025 with the most sharp and self-assured version of her sound yet.
In the last few years, between releasing acclaimed EP’s and splitting her time between Australia and New Zealand, she’s embarked on headline shows, played shows with Lorde, L.A.B., and Sir Dave Dobbyn, performed with renowned New Zealand supergroup Fly My Pretties, featured in campaigns with Maybelline, and performed at festivals including Jim Beam Homegrown and Sound Splash.
Threading together a triple threat prowess between singing/song-writing, dance, and acting, with a background in performing arts and choreography as a former dance teacher and actor, Riiki Reid’s vision for the world she’s building as an artist couldn’t be more crystalline as she pulls from every facet of what makes a generation-defining superstar.
