Lala Hayden explores modern love with her new dance-pop single 'Rush of Love'

Lala Hayden's new dance-pop single explores dopamine overload and digital-age disconnection in modern relationships.

Lala Hayden has returned with her first new music of 2025, sharing dance-pop single 'rush of love'.

The British-Spanish artist has worked with producer Ben Christophers, known for his collaborations with Bat For Lashes and Françoise Hardy, on the new track. The song features bassist Armin Metz, who has previously worked with Imogen Heap.

"A 'rush of love' refers to that hiiiiiigh you get when you're falling in love with someone. To me it feels like the highest form of dopamine, but I feel like as a society we've hit a dopamine overload - there is a numbness and I feel like that feeling is harder and harder to reach because we are so overstimulated," Hayden explains. "I feel like access to so much information, porn and Hollywood happy endings has worsened the expectation of what love IS, as well as the desire to run away if we encounter trouble. I feel like it's so easy to label someone as 'toxic' and disengage / look for someone else, instead of looking within. This song is about feeling lonely both in love and social groups, where I feel like we only want to talk to each other, instead of listening and asking questions. It is an ode to the complexity of modern love & connection in a digital era."

The London and Barcelona-based artist is currently finishing a new project set for release this spring.

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