Dirt

The official single artwork for "Dirt"

**"Dirt"** is a song by British singer-songwriter Emma Blackery. It is the second track on her debut album, *Villains*, and was released as the album's lead single on March 16, 2018. An official acoustic version of the song was released on April 26 of the same year.

## **Background**

Serving as the first release since Emma’s work was featured at Apple’s iPhone X Reveal, *Dirt* is an electropop, tropical-house track about Blackery having dirt on an ex-friend who disrespects her online.

Her first release with self-founded RWG Records, the album was released on August 31, 2018.

Emma said this about the song:

> "*‘Dirt’ was written in August, just after I’d had a massive public online fallout with some people. I was feeling the most frustrated and disillusioned with social media – to the point where I ended up leaving social media and deleting all apps for a few weeks (how wild that in 2018, that’s an eternity online?) I just wanted nothing to do with certain people. Anything I said was deliberately twisted. My name went through the mud privately and publicly. Dirt was the first song I’d written with this new sound – in losing my faith in online friendships, I gained a new perspective on how to present myself going forward. Dirt may be a little hypocritical in that, when you listen to the lyrics, but it was the very start of my journey into becoming happy again – I think it’s only right to share my story from the very beginning."*
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On the back of the vinyl-album artwork, the tracklist has little messages explaining what each song is directed towards. This song is: ‘For the Judas.’

## **Lyrics**

I was having such a good time

By the pool, sipping on wine

Then you came on Twitter

Saying I'm bitter

Honey, have you looked in the mirror?

Never thought you'd stoop so low

How far down will you go

On me online, all the time?

Can't write you back

I gotta catch my flight

I'm going somewhere new

Somewhere you've never been to

This altitude ain't the only thing I got over you

You know I got dirt on you

Don't make me spill it

I got tea for two

And bitch I'm gonna sip it

No, you know somebody's

Gonna come out of this fight on top

It's gonna be you with the bruises

Cos I got dirt on you

Now you're up in my face, getting irate

You were so sweet, what changed?

Guess things go sour

After they pass their sell-by date

The sun is casting rays

So let me serve some shade

Using my name for fame

And yet you say you're self-made, honey?

And when I count to three

You'd best be on your knees

Don't you try coming for me

Cos I'm the bitch who keeps her receipts

You know I got dirt on you

Don't make me spill it

I got tea for two

And bitch I'm gonna sip it

No, you know somebody's

Gonna come out of this fight on top

It's gonna be you with the bruises

Cos I got dirt on you

If you keep looking

Then you're gonna find me

You turn it around on me

So I turn it around on you

If you keep looking

You won't like what you see

Keep pushing your lies on me

Gonna show that I'm bulletproof

One, two, three

You know I got dirt on you

Don't make me spill it

I got tea for two

And bitch I'm gonna sip it

No, you know somebody's

Gonna come out of this fight on top

It's gonna be you with the bruises

Cos I got dirt on you

## **Videos**

Emma Blackery - DirtEmma Blackery - Dirt (Acoustic)
## **Trivia**

* *Emma* hasn't made any public statements about the person that she's referring to throughout the song. Some fans suspect that it's about *Alex Days*, whilst others presumed that it was about her friend *Cherry Wallis,* however, both of these rumours have been proven false.
* *Emma* has refused to reveal who the song is about due to the fact that she feels as if it would de-value the song.
* The song was originally going to include guitars during a time where *Emma* was unsure with what direction to take the song in. The original instrumental is vastly different from that of the final version.
* Emma has stated on her instagram story in a QnA that if she were to have a song of hers lip-synched to on RuPaul's Drag Race, she would want it to be Dirt.