Niki: I feel like the inspiration behind “Make It Sting” was that we both have had long
term relationships.
You all hit a point where you realize this could hurt you in the end but rip it off,
make it sting.
It’s gonna be worth it in the end.
Gabi: If you go through the entire song, it’s like working up towards a point where you
don’t know if this is like someone dating someone or if this is someone that just likes
someone or someone that’s being taken advantage of but at that point, it validates that like
this person is close enough to them where they could wreck them and they’re calling
it amazing.
Gabi: This person’s scared to tell this person how they feel which is never a good
sign, ever.
If I told this person this one thing, are they gonna leave me?
Are they gonna somehow manage to turn it around and make me look crazy?
Gabi: It’s one of those relationships where…
Which girls fall into all the time, where they feel victim of their own feelings because
the person that they’re with isn’t letting them open up about it.
Gabi: When you’re in a horrible relationship, especially emotionally abusive, you feel so
alone and you feel just like, victim of it.
And you feel like the only person that can be there for you is the person that’s abusing you.
So it’s like…
Guess no one can save me now.
Niki: I was so hurt so badly not long ago, before recording this song and then all of
a sudden, this guy falls into my life and I’m so excited about it but there’s always
a risk it won’t work out.
So I was just like, “I’m gonna rip it off.”
You could wreck me, but it would be amazing and I got the guts to get messed up on your love.
Literally.
Niki: It’s okay if it hurts ‘cause it means you care.
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing but it does definitely make you sleep
at night.
Been there, done that.
Niki: What makes this person dangerous is that they have the capability of crushing you.
They hold your happiness.
They hold your…
The great thing about your day and it’s like, if they choose to walk away, that’s gone.
When I say, “I’ma call you tiger,” I feel like in relationships, I tend to be playful.
Niki: If a relationships minor, you can live without them.
If a relationship isn’t minor, like the one I’m singing about, that means you can’t
picture your life without them and you don’t know how you lived without them.
Niki: I like to say, “When a connection’s made, the damage is done.”
There’s no going back.
The feelings are there.
You can’t do a rewind button and erase the feelings.
It takes people years to get over people.
Niki: We’d let someone wreck us if it means we get their love.
That sounds really bad but at the same time, it’s very vulnerable and honest.
Gabi: It’s very relatable.
I mean, I’m sure not many girls would admit that…
Niki: It’s honest and it’s vulnerable.
Some guys are addicting.
Niki: We don’t wanna teach people lessons with these songs.
We wanna relate to people and we want them to feel like someone understands where they’re
coming from.
Gabi: We don’t wanna tell people what they wanna hear.
We wanna say it how it is because then, when they listen to this track, they’ll understand
they’re not the only people feeling like that.