Nini Iris Breaks Chains, Not Just Hearts, on “Release Me”

With her new single “Release Me”, the Georgian-born singer Nini Iris delivers a staggering, storm-laced ballad that refuses to be background noise. This is not your average TikTok-ready, algorithm-polished breakup song—it’s something far more primal. If Adele whispers at your wounds, Nini screams into them, demanding not just catharsis but liberation.

The track opens like a confession, intimate and hesitant. But don’t get comfortable—this is no safe space. “Release Me” builds with tension, its sparse arrangement slowly expanding into a cinematic fever pitch. The strings groan, percussion looms, and Iris’s voice—raw, elegant, wounded—becomes a vessel for every unsent letter, every swallowed scream. By the time she belts “I won’t let you break me no more,” it’s not just a line. It’s emancipation.

What sets Nini apart isn’t just vocal prowess—though she has that in spades. It’s her unwillingness to sanitize pain. Most artists hint at vulnerability. Nini Iris walks you into the burn, holds your face to the flame, then somehow finds a way to sing through the smoke. And that voice—velvet and vinegar, crystalline one moment and thunder the next—serves as both scalpel and shield.

Fans might remember her from The Voice, where her take on “I See Red” turned all four chairs. But that was just the prelude. “Release Me” makes it clear: this is not a covers artist. This is a woman who crafts her own mythology, and she’s done playing it safe.