Curtis Waters - Better

What this video is

Released December 9, 2020, 'Better' arrives at the peak of Curtis Waters' breakout year — a year defined by pandemic-era virality, TikTok's displacement of traditional radio promotion, and a renewed cultural openness to artist-as-own-label independence. Waters, a Nepal-born, Calgary-raised, North Carolina-based artist who self-wrote, self-produced, and self-mixed his debut album 'Pity Party' (released via his own…

Why it matters

Sits at the intersection of bedroom-pop, lo-fi hip-hop, and indie-rap — genres that collectively dominated streaming and TikTok in 2020. 'Better' exemplifies the era's tendency toward emotionally confessional lyrics over maximalist production, with a retro-gamey, bit-crushed sonic palette that…

The director

Logan Fields is a writer/director born and raised in Los Angeles who graduated from USC Film School and was subsequently signed to Blank Square Productions. He works primarily in music videos and commercials. His horror short film Little One (2020) earned…