Ava Valianti is just sixteen years old but she is demonstrating herself as one of the most emotionally conscious young artists in pop music today. Her first EP titled petunias includes her latest single, Running on Empty, which came out on October 24, 2025, and is the closing song. The song shows great deal of emotional depth and maturity far beyond her age.
The song deals with how people lose connections with each other and deals with those moments when one over time gradually starts to slip out of your life without any emotional climax, simply by becoming progressively quieter and more distant.
It intertwines light ambient sounds, soft acoustic guitars, and atmospheric synthesizers to form a soft emotional scene. All the sounds of the track are meaningful and intimate. The listeners are able to listen to minor movements of fingers going over guitar strings and the sound of breath between words
Her singing is unrestrained and sincere with a weak form of power. She does not create to great emotional scenes and lets it develop. This makes an intelligent atmosphere that is quite intimate and with which anyone can easily identify. The song explains the peculiarity of the paradox of being able to provide so much love and being hollow inside as the love begins to fade away.
Ava Valianti transforms the minor heartbreak into significant art with Running on Empty. The single proves that her voice, moreover, soft, has the confidence and furthermore, it will remain close to people long after this person is gone, long after what one would imagine a person of her age is capable of.
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