- 2025-11-18
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MUSIC
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Nia Smith Premieres New Song “Limit” on BBC Radio 1
London-based singer-songwriter Nia Smith is back. She premiered a new song “Limit” on BBC Radio 1's Future Artists with Sian Eleri.
It is her first music in a year since the 2024 EP “Give Up The Fear”.
The song samples British singer-songwriter James Blake's 2010 “Limit To Your Love”, which was a cover of Canadian singer-songwriter Feist's 2007 song of the same name.
Nia Smith co-wrote the song with producer Dom Valentino, alongside Pip Millett and Violet Skies.
Nia Smith said of the song, “'Limit' was definitely the hardest to get over the line, it's been in the making for over a year. we went through about four different choruses and countless versions of the song lol. But I think that makes it even more rewarding now it's out. I tried sampling for the first time which was fun and challenging. Limit is a song for the people who've had enough and have come to terms with letting go.”- She told Sian Eleri about the song, “Truly, it was a happy accident. I made the song. Started the idea with this guy called Dom Valentino, who I make a lot of music with, and we were just like, you kind of want to dabble in samples. It's not something I've ever really done before. I always sort of struggle to get out of the place where the song's been written from originally. Then we took the piano, and it just sort of happened. And I'm kind of into this. And then we just kept going.”
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She added, “So I started, we started a year ago, maybe just over a year ago, with Pip Millett as well. We had the like, 'Baby, I'm tired,' and then we didn't, we sort of left it at that. Had a verse, which we then took half of that made it into the chorus. We went through about five choruses, I could and then I was like, I think we've got the chorus.” - source : BBC Radio 1
