Dirty Blond has cracked the code on modern heartbreak: stop trying to heal and just want to feel nothing at all. “Empty Of You”, the UK singer-songwriter’s viral TikTok moment, rejects every wellness platitude about moving forward and sits stubbornly in the impulse to reverse time itself.
“I’m sick in the heart,” Dirty Blond sings over delicate guitar and piano that sounds like it’s already given up.
Not sick of someone, but sick in the organ they’ve colonised. The distinction matters. This isn’t about getting over somebody. It’s about the impossibility of evicting someone who’s living inside the part of you that keeps you alive.
The song’s central desire is quietly radical: “cry ’til I’m empty, empty of you.” Not healed. Not moved on. Empty.
It’s the kind of wish you have at 3am when self-care feels like a lie and you’d genuinely prefer to go back to the version of yourself that never let anyone in.
The wall you’ve built, the one the song mentions breaking down? You want it back up. Higher this time.
What makes Empty Of You sting is how it frames love as arson. “Why’d you set it on fire if you said you loved me like you did?” It’s not a metaphor for passion. It’s an accusation. You burned something I can’t rebuild.
Produced by Corey Sanders and written with Blair Davie and Mark Prendergast, the song has found its audience because it names the thing we’re not supposed to want: regression.
Not growth, not closure, not lessons learned. Just the grim comfort of numbness.
TikTok keeps playing it because sometimes people don’t want to be told they’ll be okay. They want permission to wish they’d never felt anything at all.
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