This Abdullah Siddiqui and Aima Baig collaboration will make you self-reflect.

It's the beginning of 2021 and the music industry just keeps coming out with fresh new original releases.

This time, it's the Abdullah Siddiqui and Aima Baig collaboration, Be Myself. The song is also a part of Abdullah's currently releasing album, Heterotopia.

Be Myself comes on the heels of Aima Baig's other releases for Velo Sound Station that wrapped in December of last year, Te Quiero Mucho [Love you very much] and Bilji [Electricity]. Both of these tracks had Aima come out of the shadow of being a television and film playback singer, albeit a very successful and popular one, for a spot on the stage.

She shed her somewhat good girl image for a more sultry persona and fans loved it.

In Be Myself, she's... being herself. There's no on-stage persona. In the video of the song (directed by Shahbaz Shigri) she's just a regular girl in sweats walking the streets, singing on the roof with Abdullah or sitting on a couch, observing different personas that presumably represent different sides of them.

In the end, you see the two standing, very unconvincingly, like mannequins and you understand that this video was supposed to be some kind of play on the Night at the Museum concept.

Musically, the song is a regular electronic pop song. I wouldn't call this Abdullah's best work or even best song from the album. It's listenable, but nothing extraordinary. What makes this song truly interesting, however, is Abdullah's poetry. He writes visually and, at times, in metaphors, allowing the listener to deduce what they may, depending on their perspective and where...

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