For the first time, Nikko and Charlie are truly together in the studio—yet thousands of kilometers separate them. A remote desktop, an open laptop in Germany, a young woman in Bangladesh with a racing heart and a song in her heart: This is how the story of “I’m not me” begins. Charlie brings the words, the melody in her head, the raw emotion. Nikko opens his session, his plugins, his experience—and invites her to be there live, to participate in the process of an idea becoming a song.

“I’m not me” is their first real joint production. They both produced the song together via a remote desktop connection on Nikko’s studio laptop. A duet about the feeling of not being whole without the other. Two voices searching for each other, confessing to one another: “Without you, I’m not me.” Heartbroken, but hopeful. Between slow pop melancholy, cozy darkwave synths, and a soft trap pulse, they tell the same story from two perspectives—and recognize themselves in it. What begins as a writing and singing exercise becomes a study session for Charlie: she sees, hears, and feels how her lines, in Nikko’s arrangement, begin to breathe. At the same time, Nikko learns to listen even more closely to her words, their pauses, their breaks, their longing.

With “I’m not me,” we take you back to that very night: the split screen, the first takes, the little “aha” moments when everything suddenly clicks. We sing about what it’s like to learn to love someone while simultaneously teaching them how to build a song. We show you how two worlds—lyrics and sound, Bangladesh and Germany—merge step by step into a shared sound.