The silence is empty, where love used to be
Now you never check up if I’m drowning at sea
Or if I have an attack, or my vision goes black
Cuz you don’t care anymore
Fidelity is a vow made in motion, a promise that only survives through attention. When loyalty decays, it rarely shatters all at once; it thins, frays, forgets to ask simple questions. Neglect is the hollowed-out shell of love, echoing with the memories of devotion. From that absence, fury grows. Anger becomes the body’s last proof that devotion existed, that something vital was withdrawn without consent.
Emotion, in the new video for Marie Ann Hedonia and Casey Desmond‘s Fuck Your Feelings (Salt In The Wound), is treated as something spatial; an energy that inhabits rooms after the people vanish. Heartbreak is not dramatized but left behind, settling into empty sanctuaries and overgrown spaces where vows once had weight. The setting does much of the speaking: an abandoned church as a monument to fidelity neglected, beauty persisting where care has receded.
The track treats loyalty as an active practice rather than a sentimental idea. Marie’s Eurorack-driven production coils with industrial tension: precise, unyielding, while Casey’s vocal cuts cleanly through it, expressive and exposed, confrontational without posturing. An arpeggio climbs and snaps into a steel-edged rhythm, all chrome and compression. This is synth-pop stripped of nostalgia, built for rupture. Hedonia sets a sleek, controlled frame; Desmond tears into it, her melodies slicing through the gloss with deliberate force, leaving the surface scored. Anger rises from the refusal to pretend devotion never existed, while grief hardens into something sharper and more insistent.
Visually, the film resists easy catharsis. The performances unfold like private rituals rather than spectacles, surrounded by decay that feels lived-in rather than curated. Burning florals and vacant interiors echo the song’s core contradiction: destruction occurring alongside creation. This is more of a reckoning than a redemption arc; context deepens the work without softening it.
Watch below:
Created during a period of profound transformation: new life, new records, unstable ground, the collaboration between the two artists becomes an assertion of movement forward without erasure. It is about what remains when loyalty thins, when love empties the room, and when anger becomes the last honest language left standing.
“Fuck Your Feelings (Salt in the Wound)” is featured on the Solar Eclipse EP.
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Solar Eclipse by Marie Ann Hedonia
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