Soundtrack of a Summer Heartbreak: Ava Valianti’s "Buttercups"

July 16, 2025

Soundtrack of a Summer Heartbreak: Ava Valianti’s "Buttercups"

There’s something about the way music and certain smells can bring it all rushing back — like a warm summer day, buttercups swaying, and the sting of your first heartbreak. In her latest single; "Buttercups", emerging indie-pop talent Ava Valianti captures that exact feeling. With delicate piano and lush guitar layered under heartbreakingly honest lyrics, she sets a slow-burning montage of summer and loss to music. Ava’s songs don’t just tell stories — they feel like pieces of real moments, like something scribbled in a journal and accidentally left open on a windowsill.

"Buttercups" begins with a whisper and a hush — the kind of quiet that knows what’s coming. Ava’s voice is soft, but confident. She takes us through warm, spice-laced memories, past old doorways that seem to remember everything, into a stillness thick with unspoken pain. And just as the quiet almost breaks you, the track bursts open with a surge of bold, pop-rock sound. It’s heartbreak you can sing through, vulnerability you can dance through. “This one is everything to me,” Ava says — and honestly, you can hear that in every note.

Since her debut with "Bubble Wrap" in 2023, followed by standout tracks like "Wishing Well" and "Distant", Ava has been steadily carving out her space as one of her generation’s most honest and moving storytellers. Her music has been played by over 200 radio stations, and she's drawn critical praise for its emotional clarity. As one review put it, she’s “a melody you carry with you long after the song ends” — and they’re not wrong.

Now sharing stages with artists like Jessica Baio and Grammy-nominated Andrew Duhon, Ava’s presence is being felt from New York to New Hampshire. But "Buttercups" isn’t just another song — it’s a sign of what she’s reaching for. In the middle of all the messiness of young heartbreak, Ava somehow holds onto the idea that there’s still beauty in the bloom. She invites us to hold space for the pain, not to get stuck in it, but to recognize that those pieces — the hard, complicated ones — are part of what makes us whole.