“Talk to Me Nice” is Tinashe’s latest hit, which has been streamed over three million times on Spotify to date. The Nosaj Thing & Scoop DeVille produced song is off her most recent project BB/ANG3L. On today’s episode of Verified, find out how the single came about!
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00:00 I'm in my boss bitch era.
00:02 Nobody can tell me shit about shit.
00:04 I know what I want.
00:05 I know what I like.
00:06 I need somebody to meet me at my level.
00:08 I need people to talk to me nice.
00:10 I really wanted to title the song "Talk to Me Nice" because I think it was such a powerful
00:21 statement, such a powerful phrase.
00:23 The more that you mature, the more that you get to know yourself, the more that you're
00:26 like, "Okay, I'm not going to make compromises about who I am or what I want.
00:30 Come meet me here."
00:31 The nice guy I feel like is very iconic LA.
00:46 It's a nice place to go when you want to have that one-on-one environment, but it's also
00:49 very in the mix.
00:50 The nice guy made a lot of sense in that regard.
00:53 It feels very true to me and my community, my friends, and places that we hang out.
00:57 And then also, the nice guy, "Talk to Me Nice," of course, that made sense.
01:00 Actually, what makes for healthy dynamics in relationships is knowing that both people
01:22 are fully formed human beings coming together.
01:25 It's not that you need each other.
01:27 You don't feel like you're missing a piece and that person can kind of fulfill you.
01:31 That line is important because it's good to establish, especially when you're first getting
01:35 into something, that like, "Listen, ain't shit always sweet.
01:39 I want you, but I don't need you, so talk to me nice."
01:49 So I think in this section, the phase that I'm kind of referring to is feeling almost
01:56 above relationships.
01:57 If I'm going to subject myself to this, then you really got to come correct.
02:02 But then the days to me is kind of like the mindset that you get in when you're really
02:06 focused on your work and your grind.
02:08 I've been so focused on my music and my career for the last, what, four or five years that
02:13 I've been single as fuck.
02:15 And I think that that is kind of the days that you're in.
02:18 You're just kind of in tunnel vision, you're focused on yourself, which is great.
02:20 It's a good thing.
02:21 But at the same time, it's going to take someone special to really shake the table and really
02:26 get me out of this daze.
02:29 You can never get on an airplane hungry.
02:37 You always have to eat first because it's the worst thing ever.
02:40 If you get delayed or you're stuck on the plane or all they have are crackers, you're
02:44 going to be pissed.
02:45 I'm going to be pissed.
03:12 To ask of myself to make someone else that special in my world, in my universe, where
03:20 I'll drop things that are important for me if you need me, that's what I think of when
03:24 it comes to being a ride or die.
03:26 There's very few people in this world that get that privilege.
03:29 There's very few times I feel that as women we feel empowered to really kind of like keep
03:52 it 100.
03:53 Like all the way 100.
03:55 The truth is I am who I am and I'm the baddest.
03:59 Period.
04:00 I think a lot of times relationships feel like a power game.
04:14 So I think that this line kind of reflects that my intention is to be on the same team.
04:20 Not adversaries, but working together.
04:22 Do me a solid, keep it solid.
04:25 Don't lie less, you'll lie beside me.
04:29 Keep my plans in private.
04:31 They're your bank and stone, mean a thing.
04:36 The longer that I've been in the game, the more I truly realize that whatever people
04:41 say about you truly doesn't matter.
04:44 They're going to say stuff regardless.
04:46 And when I was a teenager, all that stuff definitely affected me way more.
04:50 Someone would say something on the internet, on a comment or something, it would bother
04:53 me for the whole day.
04:55 Yeah, it just comes with practice.
04:56 It comes with knowing yourself.
04:58 It comes with just having a real sense of confidence.
05:00 The Tinashe Nice Guy order is most likely usually the bolognese.
05:07 They've got this, I think it's rigatoni bolognese.
05:09 Like delicious.
05:10 I also get the little mozzarella triangles.
05:13 Fire.
05:14 Delicious.
05:15 But if I'm not feeling like Italian, you know, I'll go with the burger.
05:18 I'll go with the burger.