I'm usually here for a few weeks during the summer so anybody sees me around and
come and say hi before I speak I would go viral with her tracks stupid and we
climb to number one in both Spotify is viral 50 and geniuses top song charts I
need to take a real whopper of the show and I can't really think about anything
else but taking that before ash nico would blow up on tick-tock inspiring
creators to make hundreds of thousands of tick tocks
resulting in millions and millions of streams including one from Miley Cyrus
and Cody Simpson before hdqo would clock in 150,000 followers on Instagram over
200,000 subscribers on YouTube a modest 20,000 on Twitter under 10,000
on soundcloud and would sign with Warner Music Group there's gonna be some
changes around the world of Tik Tok has put in the work to raise up a new star
from the depths of obscurity to mainstream success it's actually pretty
crazy to see the power of Tik Tok it's bringing us some of the biggest stars of
2019 know prior to her big blow-up at sneak oh well she's been putting in the
work and has lived a rather strange life though she moved from small-town America
to Estonia then Latvia and she would travel to London on the weekends getting
involved in open mic nights now she found her gift for writing lyrics after
getting expelled over a dirty poem about one of her teachers at 18 she made the
full-time move to London all on her own and after much trial and error well she
found her own niche with feminist tunes and anime influenced appeal some raunchy
rap lyrics and industrial beats now while researching this video we've
noticed that a bunch of you guys you thought that she was from some Disney
show titled sunny with a chance so we decided to look it up my passion I I
definitely have to say acting and everything in the show business but I am
also a very big animal lover I'm actually a vegan sadly that isn't her
Mitaka but a doppelganger we did however find some old clips of s Nico so yeah
she's probably pissed he found these
give back what you want with the cliched Jesus but don't think about it because
of you there's the time of this recording of shigeko she doesn't even
have a Wikipedia page so you can imagine that this was a pretty tricky video to
piece together but the fact God is here to answer all your burning questions
what's going on guys this point Michael cretin back at it with another before
their famous video on ash Nico who is blowing up via tick-tock now she's
currently on tour with Danny Brown who we did a video on just recently and
there's other tick tock stars including black Oh brown and stun a girl who we
could do some videos on you got to let us know who's next in the comments down
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hey be sure to subscribe and hit that Bell boom my first impressions oh my god
I literally I'm like not judging in pants no I breathe through it I'll suck
it back up and we're back ash Niko was born Ashton Casey On February 19th 1996
in small-town Oak Ridge North Carolina population just 10k now it seems like a
pretty boring place for a youngish Niko to grow up but she states that she's
always been the center of attention she told all access comm I was always a bit
of a show-off I would gather a crowd at family
barbecues to watch me douche be cartwheels I feel like I always knew
that this is what I wanted to do I've been ready song since I was 15 I used to
do musical theater a talent shows and basically anything I possibly could that
involved performance in my small country town she also added I think I've been
blessed cursed with the perfect amount of narcissism for this industry but her
ordinary life in small-town America it would come to a sudden end when her
parents they relocated her and her family to Estonia now if you don't know
what a Stoney is it's a European nation forwardly controlled by Russia I didn't
even know that there were time there was short lived as her family they moved to
Latvia and there she was the only American student in an entire latvia
school system and she would take her courses entirely in latvian well as good
as that for we're in Latvia the locals love it they love a bit of ash Nico
I'm gonna shit my pants there you got to imagine that being the foreign kid who
didn't speak the language must have been kind of isolating thus began ash nico
strong bond with music she told all access calm my parents didn't really
play loads of music around the house we had the radio but they were teaching me
about music and then I remember my first Holi if there's so much music out there
that my little ears haven't heard moment when I was 11 years old I got a pink
iPod Nano for Christmas and I downloaded em is a ruler album and Bucky done gun
just blew my little brain away no other artist she idolized the blue Paramore
cardi B Rihanna Stevie Nicks is a Bjork Nicki Minaj and Charli XCX now she would
perform wherever she could including in front of her classmates there back at
schoolish Nikko she was a little isolated from her peers in fact she told
Billboard I got suspended from school because I wrote a sexy poem about my
teacher but it wasn't really sexy there was a sasquatch involved and my teacher
took it on my desk or something and I thought it was hilarious and my teacher
picked it up and she was like you're so suspended probably said that Latvian I
don't know trying to make music and Latvia was also a problem as she claims
that she would receive death threats yeah we've been trying to make music in
our country apparently it's a massive no-no and I wonder what they think about
her work now this butthole do I got a lick to get this check flash
that's good this money now at 18 - Nico she began flying to London on the
weekends to pursue music beginning with small open mic nights no she eventually
established the hope for herself within the odd child community where she spent
the last four years focused on developing her music I moved here when I
was 18 find myself and that was really scary and I'm really proud of myself
speaking of her formative years willis nico stated that she became a woman in
london she surrounded herself with brilliant creatives that odd child who
taught her a lot but there was still a bit of a learning curve which she refers
to as her creative puberty their first few songs she cites they were awkward
they were embarrassing and they were cringe-worthy then she would experiment
with rapping and singing while figuring out her style and sound now her style
she now describes as music with a punk attitude with fused hip-hop energy and
also she's just kind of weird in general I mean though she clearly is a strong
artistic vision she conceptualizes many of her music
videos and even brings a futuristic fantasy style pixie alien vibe to her
stage shows and outfits to me she looks like an animated character and bondage
wearing combat boots this is me she released her debut EP sass pancakes back
in 2017 followed by 2018 unlikable and most recently this year
hi it's B the EP there which Nico had been working on an EP by ep basis with
the UK label Parlophone owned by Warner Music Group but they officially signed
her for hi it's me is this legally binding yeah
she went on tour with another UK band by the name of girly and she made the
announcement via Facebook with a post that read I'll be masturbating and
travel lodges all over the UK this month yeah also touring also how the f did my
arm gets so long I feel like it's definitely grown can somebody wipe my
butt I just do my nails
when it comes to her new look well back in 2017 she still had her normal hair
colour she kind of decided to say forget what anybody thinks and she began
experimenting with a bunch of different colors she went from teal to puke green
and now she has her signature blue pigtails pigtails opponent what are they
called you know I mean and I'm at her behavior it also matched her new persona
like the girl would eat carrots with her feet while do it interviews oh my god
you're doing it she's currently ash Nico is eating a carrot with her toe oh my
god I love you so much I'll talk about a recent success with
stupid via tick-tock now she dropped her EP hi it's me in
July of 2019 via Spotify in YouTube now the song it was now pulling in so much
traffic that is until September 21st when it started blowing up with genius
clocking in 200 daily page news for the lyrics the next few days it would
surpass 5,000 and 10,000 with no signs of slowing down and the traffic it all
seemed to stem from kids on tick-tock who were singing their own version of
the lyrics stupid at 10 million streams on Spotify before they released the
official music video over on Instagram mystique oh well she was celebrating
back but she just had a million views online so she could probably just her
pants right now brutally literally
noshiko who said her ultimate goal is I just want them to be able to sing my
lyrics in their rooms and dance around in front of their mirrors and gain some
sense of empowerment which well by the looks of things I think she's
accomplished that as for the rest of the story let's think we're gonna wrap this
one up here because this is before they're famous my name is Michael Cretu
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