Nadia Ahmed was born in
Cairo and grew up next to Roxy Cinema in
Heliopolis. Their grandfather is of Sudanese descent. Their father listened to
AC/DC and their mother listened to traditional Arabic acts such as
Umm Kulthum, Their first song was a whimsical track about
Hawaii, which they had not yet been to; by nine, their tracks were about identity and self-perception. about disappointment with being upset with a friend, They released "IDC" in 2023, the latter's focus track, "Decay", was written about the
2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis. After discovering old diary pages which detailed their teenage infatuation for a girl and their disappointment at finding that she was attracted to a boy, they wrote "She Likes a Boy", which made reference to
Katy Perry's "
Teenage Dream". and the following month the track spent a week at No. 74 on the UK Singles Sales Chart. A subsequent track, "Jennifer's Body", described their experience of a toxic relationship, and took its name from the
Megan Fox film
of the same name on the grounds that watching the film helped them frame their thoughts. == Artistry ==