In February, Years & Years' lead singer teamed up with DJ Regard to release a dance track about failed love, "Hallucination"
Years & Years is the solo pop collective of musician and actor Ollie Alexander, who is no stranger to the challenge of lies in a relationship. It was this experience that prompted him to appear on his latest single with DJ Regard, a vibrant club track titled "Hallucination," in which the singer's cautions from "serial heartbreakers."
"Don't try to impress me, I know you're intending to hurt me again / You look like a vision but now I'm beginnin' to see through the haze / Don't be so fake, oh, oh (Oh) / Your love is a hallucination"
Which translates to:
"Don't try to impress me, I know you're gonna hurt me again / You look like a vision, but now I'm starting to see through the haze / Don't be so fake, oh, oh (Oh ) / Your love is a hallucination," Years & Years sings, letting the girl know he's into his games.
"Hallucination" inadvertently expands the lyrical and conceptual world of the record "Night Call," Years & Years' latest album and the artist's first full-length release since the pop singer transitioned to solo. The record, in large part, inspired the escapism inherent in dance music.
"My hidden self manifests itself in this - in the music. I wrote a lot of songs - love songs - where I felt completely trampled, and I just wasn't interested in writing those kinds of songs," Alexander told NPR about the album. "I didn't really fall in love like that anymore, and there were so many expectations that came up in relationships when I met someone who was like - it was like, who am I going to be? Who are you going to be? How are we going to get through this?"
He continued:
"I really wanted to just play with those expectations and write songs where I was really trying to prioritise, having fun in the studio, just embodying this character that wasn't afraid to be a little bit out there."
