Gearing towards the release of her strictly RnB EP titled 6th Heaven, Afrohouse star Niniola has released the video for Promise, a single headlining the project. Niniola might be big on house music, tweaking it with African drums and other percussions to create a distinctly resonant genre, but RnB has always been her first love.
She shows this with Promise, a song about a love gone sour, heralded by warm guitar string play and piano. The visuals leans into nostalgic RnB storytelling – boy and girl love each other, then they argue and boy finds love in another girl. Niniola does it all, through a revolving door of gorgeous costume and set design. As a bonus, she throws in the RnB trope of singing in the rain, her black leather coat and hair soaked.
Niniola will give it all again on Friday, when the EP drops.
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