Filmed in Seoul after a personal heartbreak, the video is an introspective wander through emotional recovery: no drama, no excess. Just SORE, often alone, drifting through the city’s nighttime calm and neon breath. There are no choreographed breakdowns, no staged catharsis: only honest movement. The grainy, shadow-tinted palette of the video resists glamour, capturing the raw moments of solitude and reflection that follow emotional collapse. It’s not performance; it’s presence.

Visually, the camera lingers. SORE leans against tiled subway walls, rides escalators, and pauses mid-crosswalk as traffic lights flicker against the lens. You feel time stretch. And in that slowness, something happens: healing begins to take shape. There’s something hauntingly powerful in how these mundane scenes accumulate into emotional texture, like scars forming skin.

The track itself, already available on all platforms, is a slow-burning blend of alternative rock, gothic overtones, and post-punk pulse. But it’s in the video where the emotion finds its body. The song’s shimmering synths and aching vocals dissolve into the Seoul skyline, and suddenly it’s not just SORE’s story; it’s anyone’s who’s ever been broken, left, or lost.

“NOW IM MUCH BETTER” doesn’t really need glossy edits. No overexposed light leaks. Just one artist, grieving and growing in real time. It’s a visual letter to the self: You were hurting, but you kept going.

And that’s what makes this video unique. It doesn’t show strength as fire, but as motion. As breath. As the simple act of walking forward, even when it still hurts to move.

So if you’re feeling fractured, this one’s for you. Not to fix you, but to remind you that survival is its own kind of masterpiece! 

SORE is a one-girl band based in Balham, England. SORE’s latest single was written about the sensational horror film of the same name, and about the supernatural being in the disturbing SMILE. Stylistically, ‘SMILE’ is a post/pop-punk number with an infectious groove, soft and characterful vocals, and a dark world in which everything on the song resides.

This darkness is easily felt in the heavy-handed and prominent bass line, mixed loudly and in the forefront of the mix, lending its massive weight to the sound of the song. Moreover, the steady-handed drum groove is battering and momentous, taking short, incomplete moments of respite here and there as the bass momentarily disappears, only for a moment before it kicks back in with just as much oppressive power. The menace continues to the chords themselves, with the song written around a 3-chord loop that does not begin on the home chord, giving the flow of the song a palpable sense of restlessness that’s eerily fitting with the remainder of the elements of the song.

‘SMILE’ is a terrifically written song that’s pop and fun, yet punk, heavy, and dark. The infectious vibes that SORE crafts are immaculate and the looming mix perfectly encapsulates the foreboding sensations of the haunting SMILE.