Nep Turns Heartbreak Into Glittery Chaos on “All Around Beauty”

Nep’s latest single, “All Around Beauty,” is pure pop sugar, the kind that fizzes and melts on the tongue but lingers with a bittersweet aftertaste. Coming off the viral momentum of “Girls On TV” and her much-loved Nep’s Storybook EP, the Daytona-born, Frost School of Music graduate cements her status as one of indie pop’s brightest rising stars with a track that transforms heartbreak into something both chaotic and strangely celebratory.

The song is a diary-entry-turned-anthem about messy college parties, heartbreak hangovers, and the kind of public encounters with an ex that make your chest tighten. Nep leans fully into vulnerability—crying on the dancefloor, mascara smudged, feelings loud—but coats it in a hook so buoyant it practically levitates. It’s bubblegum with bruises, a track that captures the absurd duality of being heartbroken while surrounded by flashing lights, plastic cups, and friends urging another round.

Sonically, “All Around Beauty” is a sugarrush earworm: gleaming synths, candy-coated melodies, and a chorus that barrels forward with the urgency of youth. Nep’s voice—equal parts playful and aching—threads through the production with a disarming sincerity. There’s a deliberate imperfection in her delivery, one that mirrors the “messy” ethos she declares in her own words: “If YOU get to be messy, then so do I.”

The accompanying music video amplifies this spirit with visuals of blue tongues and jello-shot debauchery, a Gen Z house party kaleidoscope that plays like a memory you’d swear you dreamed. But beneath the glitter and neon, Nep sneaks in a very real pang of recognition: the universal awkwardness of trying to move on when you can’t escape the same orbit as the one who broke your heart.

What makes “All Around Beauty” stand out isn’t just its stick-in-your-head immediacy—it’s how Nep channels the chaotic vulnerability of youth into something communal, something to dance and cry along to in equal measure. If indie pop in 2025 has a patron saint of glorious messiness, Nep might just be it.