Some breakup songs want you to cry in the dark. Kirrilee would rather you laugh, text the group chat, and take the bins out. Go Away (Garbage Tip) is a light-hearted alt pop breakup anthem built from the weirdest dating stories she has collected so far, and it lands like a wink instead of a wound.
Melbourne-based artist-designer Kirrilee has spent the last few years writing for the romantics, the overthinkers, and anyone who feels everything at once. Her songs often sound like a leaked group chat: messy, honest, and uncomfortably familiar. The debut EP Dreaming and Other Dangerous Behaviour set that tone in 2023 with glittery synths and diary-entry lyrics. Later singles such as The View, When The Lights Go Out, Janelle, and Happy pushed the same emotional honesty further, picking up radio play, interviews, and a growing community around queerness, insecurity, and self-doubt.
This time she wanted the joke as well as the feeling. She has said she has enough strange dating experiences to fill a whole album, but Go Away (Garbage Tip) felt like the right first swing. A lot of her catalogue is deeply emotional. Here she leans into humour and writes an unapologetically playful breakup song people can laugh, sing, and heal along with. The pitch is simple and sharp: sometimes the best thing you can do is laugh, move on, and take the garbage out.
That idea sits right in the current alt pop moment. Commercial pop in 2026 still loves a hook, but the songs that stick often mix charm with bite, the Sabrina Carpenter school of saying the quiet part out loud without turning it into a lecture. Kirrilee already gets compared to that lane, though she has been careful to keep her own voice. Farrago Magazine put it plainly: she is not a carbon copy of anyone else. She is distinctly Kirrilee. Go Away (Garbage Tip) uses that personality. It is cheeky without being mean, commercial without sanding off the diary energy that made her earlier work land.
She designs her own artwork and merch, so the world around the song matches the writing: intimate, a little theatrical, and built by the same person who lived the story. The pansexual Melbourne artist has framed her project as both an escape and a mirror, a safe space for people who overthink at 1 a.m. and still want a chorus they can shout in the kitchen. A humorous breakup anthem fits that brief. Heartbreak is still there. It just arrives with a punchline and a bin bag.
If you only know her from the heavier confessionals, this is the palette cleanser. If you found her through Janelle or The View, it is the same honesty with the volume turned toward the ridiculous side of dating. Either way, it is alt pop that understands the assignment: catchy enough for playlists, specific enough that it could only come from her notebook.
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What do you think of Kirrilee’s playful turn? Does a funny breakup song hit harder than a sad one, or do you need both? Drop your take in the comments.
