KBRN, Sabang - Backburner merupakan salah satu single dari penyanyi NIKI. Dirilis pada tahun 2022, backburner menjadi salah satu lagu yang sangat populer dari album yang bertajuk Nicole.

Lagu yang bergenre R&B/Soul ini mampu memikat banyak pendengar karena musiknya yang melankolis dan liriknya yang relatable dengan kisah percintaan banyak orang. Backburner memiliki arti second choice atau pilihan kedua.

Backburner menceritakan seorang perempuan yang mencintai seorang laki-laki, namun sang laki-laki lebih menyukai orang lain dan hanya menjadikannya pelampiasan saat sedang sedih. Backburner sudah ditonton sebanyak 10 juta kali di akun youtube resmi NIKI dan diputar sebanyak lebih dari 116 juta kali di Spotify.

Dalam liriknya I can't lie, it feels nice that you're calling/ You sound sad and alone, and you're stalling/ And for once, I don't care about what you want/ As long as we keep talking, meskipun sang perempuan dijadikan second choice, ia tetap merespon saat sang laki-laki menelponnya. Ia seakan tidak peduli terhadap dirinya yang hanya dijadikan cadangan dan ingin terus mengobrol dengan laki-laki tersebut.

Nicole Zefanya atau yang dikenal dengan nama panggung NIKI, merupakan seorang penyanyi, produser, dan penulis lagu berkebangsaan Indonesia yang berada dibawah label rekaman 88rising. Saat ini NIKI menjadi salah satu musisi Indonesia yang go international dan tampil dalam acara-acara musik populer dunia seperti Coachella, serta tampil sebagai pembuka konser Taylor Swift di Jakarta pada tahun 2014 silam.

Lirik lagu Backburner selengkapnya:

I can't lie, it feels nice that you're calling

You sound sad and alone, and you're stalling

And for once, I don't care about what you want

As long as we keep talking (as long as we're talking)

I mean, you gotta admit the history's kind of unmatched

Asian Calvinism, we made it out of that

Well, whether we're free of will or predestined

Clearly, I've not learned my lesson even now

Hope He doesn't strike me down (strike me down)

The Goo Goo Dolls are dead to me

The way you should be too

But you bring them up

Along with how much I fucking miss you

Maybe I'm just not better than this, I haven't tried

Maybe life's less romantic when I don't wanna die

You'd think I'd be a fast learner

But guess I won't ever mind crisping up on your backburner

Backburner

Your backburner

Your backburner

Your backburner

It's pathetic, but at least you are, too

I don't know what to do

I don't like anyone except sometimes you

And now you're sounding like a hurt puppy

You look ugly when you cry

But I'm the one you think to call

How do you feel lucky and appalled at the same time?

After everything you put me through

I somehow still believe in you, oh-oh

But I know in a week or so

You'll fade away again

And I wish that I cared

Hey, are you still there?

Good

Maybe I'm just not better than this, I haven't tried

'Cause maybe you'll finally choose me after you've had more time

I thought I was a fast learner

But guess I won't ever mind, guess I won't ever mind

Maybe I blame my mother bleeding into my stride

Maybe it was my father and his wandering eyes

(It's their fault that)

I'll always be in your corner

'Cause I don't feel alive 'til I'm burnin' on your backburner, oh-oh

(Backburner, your backburner)

And I know that it's sad that I settle for the backburner, oh-oh (your backburner)

(Your backburner, your backburner)

Guess I won't ever mind crisping up on your backburner, oh-oh (your backburner)

(Backburner, your backburner)

As long as you still think of me, oh, oh-oh (backburner, backburner)