A bruise wrought into life, Chrissy’s achingly beautiful “Sore” is a softly smoldering standout from her new EP ‘Slight Turn’ – a tender, radiant reckoning with what it means to open your heart again after it’s been hurt. Open-hearted and unguarded, the Staten Island-born, LA-based singer/songwriter crafts an intimate portrait of healing, acceptance, and learning to love without fear.

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There’s a softness to Chrissy’s ache – a kind of weightless burn that glows rather than scars, drifting through the air like something half-remembered and wholly felt.

Her spellbinding song “Sore” moves with that quiet, radiant tension: Tender but smoldering, dreamy but raw, sung in a voice that hits like a bruise you keep pressing just to feel alive again. Over swirling, lightly crackling production, she turns heartbreak into something featherlight and luminous, letting pain dissolve into possibility one breath at a time.

From that haze rises the line that anchors the whole song: “Nothing hurts anymore, it’s just a little bit sore.” It lands not as denial, but as recognition. It’s the moment you realize you’re healing even while it still stings, that the wound didn’t break you so much as bend you toward something new. “Sore” sits in that space between fear and openness, between what hurt and what might come next, holding both with gentle, unflinching grace.

I’m a critter, creepy crawling,
under your skin
Call it what you want
Maybe crazy, sometimes baby,
when you touch me

There’s a garden growing inside of me
Open me up and I won’t bleed
Nothing hurts anymore
It’s just a little bit sore

Out now as part of her new EP Slight Turn, the song captures the project’s central idea: That change often begins quietly, in tiny shifts that accumulate until one morning you wake up and realize you’ve become someone braver, calmer, or simply more yourself. “‘Slight Turn’ as a title is referring to one of the many little shifts that have to happen over time that domino into great change,” Chrissy explains. “I think ‘Sore’ is the realization and liberation that comes with waking up one morning and saying ‘wow, my life is so different than it was last year.’”

The track’s sound mirrors that transformation. A dreamy, lightly pulsing groove sets the foundation while Chrissy’s voice glows at the center – smoky, intimate, and aching with honesty. She moves between whispered vulnerability and quiet strength, her melodies floating over warm synths and soft, swirling textures that shimmer with restraint. Even at its most emotionally charged, the song feels weightless, as if suspended in the exact moment before release.

I’m a storm over the city
while you watch me from the window
You’re inspired by the shitty weather
And when the wind blows

You open up your arms to the sky
You’ve never felt more alive
Nothing hurts anymore
It’s just a little bit sore
It’s just a little bit sore
It’s not broken anymore

Lyrically, “Sore” is a reckoning with the fear of loving again after loss. “I was really scared to love again after having my heart broken,” she shares. “There was grief and guilt as well as mourning of a past self that came with opening up my heart again… as well as all of the other amazing things that outweigh the bad, which is why we do it anyway.” That duality shapes every verse: the trembling hesitance of past hurt, the slow return of trust, the quiet wonder of discovering you’re still capable of feeling deeply.

The song’s central image – “There’s a garden growing inside of me / open me up and I won’t bleed” – captures that transformation beautifully. It’s rebirth without fanfare, growth without spectacle. The pain isn’t gone; it’s simply softened, reshaped into something you can hold without fear. As Chrissy puts it: “Acknowledging that you can be simultaneously affected by your past but still love with an open heart.”

Across Slight Turn, that theme repeats in different forms: Acceptance, curiosity, self-understanding, and the small realizations that gently pull us forward.

“I think I was personally in a place where acceptance was the only option,” she reflects. “I think it’s really just a testament to where I was at.” The EP marks a turning point for her – a step toward adulthood, clarity, and artistic self-definition. “In my discography I do think it is a marker of my growth in the sense that I can hear more of a woman singing rather than a girl,” she shares. “I will probably laugh about that in 5 years.”

I have fear from my past lovers
You have all the patience for
There’s a voice inside my head
that wants to make my problems yours

My heart’s not broken
I was convinced
Turns out it’s only broken in
Nothing hurts anymore
It’s just a little bit sore
It’s just a little bit sore
It’s just a little bit sore
But it’s not broken anymore
It’s just a little bit sore

“Sore” stands as one of the EP’s deepest emotional wells: A song that aches lightly, glows softly, and moves with the warmth of someone learning to trust themselves again. It is tender without collapsing, vulnerable without breaking, quietly triumphant in the way healing often is. Chrissy’s gift is her ability to make heavy feelings feel buoyant – to write songs that drift like secrets and settle like truths.

In “Sore,” she offers a small but powerful reminder: You can be changed without being shattered. You can hurt and still move forward. You can be “just a little bit sore,” and still be ready – slowly, bravely – to open your heart again. It’s the sound of someone growing braver by degrees – and in Chrissy’s own telling, that shift is as personal, tender, and quietly liberating as the music itself. Read our conversation below as she reflects on the making of “Sore,” the heart of Slight Turn, and the many little shifts that carried her here.

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A CONVERSATION WITH CHRISSY

Chrissy: I want them to know that I am a writer above all else. As for my music, I’d want them to know it would exist whether I was the only one listening to it or not. It is my favorite way to paint the world with words.

Chrissy: I really love the idea of being open to loving again, even though it hurts.

Chrissy: Personal experience. I was really scared to love again after having my heart broken. There was grief and guilt as well as mourning of a past self that came with opening up my heart again… as well as all of the other amazing things that outweigh the bad, which is why we do it anyway.

Chrissy: Acknowledging that you can be simultaneously affected by your past but still love with an open heart.

Chrissy: There are so many. The two women that came to mind immediately were Stevie Nicks and Molly Drake. I think that I resonate with their perspectives a lot, and the not-so on the nose-ness of their writing. I feel more impacted by a deeply personal detailed scenario or a metaphor that I can find a piece of myself in. When you get it but you’re not sure how you get it, that’s when I feel most inspired.

Chrissy: I think I was personally in a place where acceptance was the only option, I think it’s really just a testament to where I was at.

Chrissy: I want the listeners to take away whatever they need from it. For me, the EP is truly just a bite size of the music that I’ve been working on this year. It’s taught me a lot about who I want to be as a person and an artist and how important it is to have standards for yourself and your legacy.

In my discography I do think it is a marker of my growth in the sense that I can hear more of a woman singing rather than a girl. I will probably laugh about that in 5 years.

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