NoSo – Don’t Hurt Me, I’m Trying

NoSo transforms personal crisis into universal plea on ‘Don’t Hurt Me, I’m Trying’, a track that strips vulnerability down to its essential elements. Born from what the Korean-American artist describes as “a mental health spiral”, the song captures the peculiar sensation of being frozen while the world continues its relentless motion around you.

The track serves as sonic cartography of internal insecurity, mapping the terrain of anxiety with naked instrumentation that refuses to hide behind melodies. NoSo (Baek Hwong) has crafted something that builds to a pleading chorus without melodrama, finding power in restraint rather than bombast. The song functions simultaneously as emotional release and gentle accusation, addressing our collective failure to care for one another while modelling the vulnerability that genuine connection requires.

‘Don’t Hurt Me, I’m Trying’ offers another preview of ‘When Are You Leaving?’, NoSo’s forthcoming second album due October 10th via Partisan Records. Where 2022’s ‘Stay Proud Of Me’ explored longing and imagined futures, this new project takes a more direct approach to disconnection and change. The shift reflects an artist moving from distance to proximity, choosing to examine experiences previously kept at arm’s length.