[1] After Isioma's breakout song "Sensitive" went viral on TikTok in 2020, they[a] released a debut album titled Goodnight Dreamer in 2022.
[4] Producing music became a serious passion while Isioma was still in high school; they routinely spent hours working on songs each day.
[3] After high school, Isioma began attending college in Chicago; they initially planned to study marketing but switched to communications to avoid required math classes.
[4][5] The song, which mixes R&B, hip hop, and funk influences, was later described in the Chicago Tribune as "a sonically playful wonder".
[5] As a result of the success of "Sensitive", Isioma was able to access additional resources to create an album, working with a distributor and creative team and having a budget for the first time.
[6] NME described the album as a blend of various influences including Afrobeats, rock and roll, and modern electronic and pop music, and praised it as feeling "genuinely fresh, newly discovered".
[5] WRBB gave the album four stars out of five, praising it as "an intriguingly beautiful commentary on love and sexuality" with "fresh androgynous musical style".