Frankie Orella Finds Beauty in the Chaos with New EP "It’s Kind of a Mess in Here"

September 19, 2025

Frankie Orella Finds Beauty in the Chaos with New EP "It’s Kind of a Mess in Here"

On September 19, Nashville indie pop artist Frankie Orella opens wider than ever: with the drop of Like This, the final single and lead track of her new EP, It's Kind of a Mess in Here. The EP is a five-song reflection of what it's like to navigate love, self-doubt, and the troubled tides of growing up. Orella doesn't refine her confessions—she lets them breathe, lets them bruise, and in their nudity, she leaves space for her listeners to see themselves.

At the core of the release is Like This, an anguish-filled admission of such moments when love and limitation intersect—when being needed isn't sufficient, and the weights of personal battles keep you at arm's length from the individuals who need you most. Along with its official video, the track is the last in a series of tracks mapping out late-night anxieties (30), deceitful calm tricks (Lie to Myself), self-sabotaging temptation (Blow Up My Life), and brief tranquility of flight (Cloud9). The EP as a whole reads like a diary you're not supposed to be reading but can't put down.

Orella herself refers to these songs as "snapshots in time"—not definitives, but passing tempests, with warts. That candor is what makes the music so compelling. She luxuriates in whisper-almost vocals and melody-pushed songwriting, rendering the sound of someone speaking what you hold in your mouth. Not about tying things into neat knots; about having the nerve to leave them loose, about saying something about what most of us swallow whole. The EP stays within that tension, where specificity seems both unattainable and necessary.

For fans of Gracie Abrams, Julia Michaels, and Holly Humberstone, Orella's music is familiar but new—soaring but unflinching, confessional but widescreen. From the sorrow-drenched storytelling of Stages of Grief to the sad pop of Sad in Paradise, her art has long lived at the intersection of bare truth and soaring beauty. And now, with It's Kind of a Mess in Here, Frankie Orella presents us with her most pop-forward album to date—a record for anyone desperate to sort through the noise in their own head, hoping for just a glimmer of light through the chaos.