Nieve Ella strips everything back on ‘All My Mess’, delivering one of the most achingly honest tracks you’ll hear this year.
Written when she was just 19, the song captures that specific kind of pain that comes from being loved when you can’t love yourself back. Three years later, it still stings in all the right ways.
The production from Iain Berryman (Wolf Alice, Florence + The Machine) knows exactly when to hold back.
Guitar strums and piano intertwine, creating the perfect backdrop for Nieve’s vulnerable and warm voice to blend intimately with these minimal arrangements.
You can feel every insecurity, every moment of hope, every growing pain she lived through. The melancholy theme runs deep, but there’s something beautiful in how she owns her flaws.
Lines about struggling to look in the mirror while someone loves every part of your body hit differently when delivered with such raw honesty.
The song excavates feelings of self-sabotage and insecurity. Lyrically, ‘All My Mess’ functions as an apology for behaviour rooted in self-doubt.
She documents lazy Sunday afternoons, matted hair, and the weight of feeling undeserving of affection.
The outro shifts from defence to admission, from shouting to apologising, capturing how arguments born from insecurity often end in regret.
She’s not writing about love in abstract terms. She’s writing about hands behind heads, early afternoon sleep, unfinished films, and all the tiny moments that make up a relationship when you’re too caught up in your own head to appreciate them.
‘All My Mess’ serves as both confession and closure, a goodbye to a version of herself she’s since outgrown. For anyone who’s ever felt too broken to accept love, Nieve offers something rare: understanding without judgement, wrapped in one of the year’s most tender indie pop ballads.
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