Being dumped is hard, but being dumped for your jazz prowess is on another level. In a viral video, which has amassed 3.1 million views, a tearful Aneeke Scace (anneke.scace) drove as she vented.
“My three-year relationship with somebody that I was really in love with has ended,” she said. “Because I’m not good enough at the saxophone! Which is the dumbest [expletive] thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life!”
People find it hilarious
Some commenters couldn’t help but see the funny side. “Not him breaking up with you over sax appeal,” one quipped. “This actually might be a unique experience…?” another wrote, while a third asked, “Were you dating Lisa Simpson?”
Others were prepared to ride at dawn, with a fourth saying, “Girl [expletive] him you’re [expletive] goated and he sucks and I hate him and I hope all his gigs cancel on him and he drops his music in a puddle and a car runs over his [expletive] trumpet.”
While a fifth suggested, “You have to marry his favorite saxophonist, it’s the only response.”
And a sixth added, “I know you are going through horrible emotions right now and I’m so sorry, but I hope in the future, after you’ve grieved the relationship, this situation makes you laugh harder than you ever cried.”
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In a follow-up video, Scace provided some nuance on the situation.
She explained that she and her boyfriend were both aspiring jazz musicians and that they met at a high school jazz youth program. Now both in college, the pair run a quintet together. However, she notes that they both have different relationships with jazz.
While his high school was affluent and had a lot of musical resources and opportunities, Scace admits that her own school was closer to the poverty line. Her boyfriend opted to do jazz trumpet in college while she decided to go down a more academic route, pursuing jazz on the side.
As for her boyfriend, Scace says that, for most of the relationship, he was very emotionally intelligent. However, he became apathetic and seemed to no longer want to be around her, which led to them “fighting all the time.”
According to Scace, it soon emerged that he was dealing with career anxiety and felt that he couldn’t have a relationship and be a successful jazz musician at the same time.
He said the TikToker was holding him back because she’s not a ‘real’ jazz musician, because she’s not in school for jazz.
Nonetheless, she shared that he apologized after the video. She also shared a clip of herself playing the saxophone, which made commenters conclude that the man broke up with her because of jealousy.
In a further follow-up, she shared that her ex did indeed try to “sabotage” and has since left the quintet.
Scace didn’t immediately respond to The Mary Sue’s request for comment via TikTok comment and contact form.
Do men ever break up relationships?
Recently, TikToker Nayrina (@nayrina__) went viral for claiming that it’s usually women who break up relationships.
She said, “I do hear from other girls that they’ve been broken up with, but I just, I just haven’t experienced that. I think that the only thing I’ve experienced is breaking up with guys that lie about those kinds of things.”
But given Scace’s situation, the breakup, while absurd, suggests that this theory might not be as true as one might think.
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