TIKTOK’s viral break up song tells the story of how a woman blew her savings to move to Texas with her boyfriend – only to be dumped.
The video made by the heartbroken Jillian Lavin has been viewed over 2 million times on TikTok.
The new trending way to get over a breakup is to make a song about it, and post it on TikTok.
That’s just what Jillian Lavin did, and it earned her much support from the internet, with thousands of viewers flocking to her comment section to shame her ex-boyfriend for blindsiding her.
The video she made got posted on X, and soon after everyone had an opinion on her story.
Jillian Lavin’s breakup
Jillian Lavin is a content creator and singer who performs under her stage name Spritely.
She is known for creating a viral breakup video that was first shared to TikTok on October 14, 2024.
According to the lyrics of Jillian’s song, she had been dating a guy in Los Angeles for over three years when he told her he wanted to move back to Texas to be closer to his dad.
Jillian decided to move across the country to go with him, blowing hundreds of dollars on removals and other costs of setting up their new place, totally depleting her savings.
When her boyfriend returned from a family vacation, he handed her a handwritten letter detailing why they weren’t compatible and that their three year relationship was no more.
Jillian was heartbroken and ended up moving back home to live with her mom in Florida.
According to the singer, her boyfriend claimed in the note that they had “nothing in common”.
“How? How did I not notice this whole time?” Lavin questioned.
“Three and a half years of happiness. We’ve been incompatible this whole time and have nothing in common for three and a half years?”
“Wow, what a surprise. Thank you for informing me,” Lavin sarcastically sang, as clips of herself crying were played throughout the video.
Jillian captioned her viral TikTok: “Anyway, how have you been?”
What is the response to Jillian’s story?
Viewers of the story were firmly on Jillian’s side, shaming her ex-boyfriend for being inconsiderate to the sacrifices she had made.
But there have been some not so sympathetic comments and people taking to the internet to shame Jillian for the unfortunate position that she finds herself in.
Those viewers have criticised Jillian for using up all her resources on a man she’s not married to.
One person wrote on X: “Gave up her career, depleted her savings, and moved to pro-life Texas… for a boyfriend. y’all gon learn.”
Another took to TikTok and wrote: “Boyfriends aren’t husbands.
“Don’t build your life around someone who hasn’t actually committed to you.”
Some people even believed that her boyfriend’s sudden reason for their split was because he was dating someone else.
Jillian strongly denies this and speaking to The Cut, she said: “People are speculating: Was there another woman? Did his family talk him out of it?
“No, knowing him, there is no other influence involved.
“It was purely a decision that he made, and I guess he was in denial about it for so long because he’s so out of touch with his emotions.
“He said that at the point we moved to Texas together, he had fallen out of love with me, and I think it’s his fault that he kept these concerns bottled up long enough for that to happen.”
