Lindsey Lohan is no stranger to the lime light, but here presence in the world EDM is pretty much nonexistent (except when she presented the Best Electronic award to Marshmello at the MTV EMAs). But now, she’s entering our world whether we like it or not with a new song called “XANAX.”
The song is currently available exclusively through Instagram TV as a music video — you can’t find the song on any streaming service anywhere else. Its caption reads:
This video is a compilation vignettes life. Family, love, the process moving forward and letting go the past. To live and be happy, free fear. Just to be grateful and open our eyes to our opportunities instead numbing the mind.
“XANAX” is about anxiety, as the chorus makes readily apparent. It’s also built atop a sample Alice Deejay’s 1998 song, “Better Off Alone.” That alone doesn’t make this a smash hit that we’re excited to be hearing about, but knowing Lohan’s history in the media and fame worlds makes this an interest track to dissect.
As Rolling Stone writes, “There’s a cacophony cheesy synths and finger snaps that battle against dark and muted lyrics about living in seclusion in a city excess. Despite all that, it’s hard to deny ‘Xanax.’ The dichotomy Lohan chanting ‘I got social anxiety, but you’re like Xanax to me, yeah / Social anxiety, when you kiss me, I can’t breathe,’ against a four-on-the-floor is a full-on fever dream and in the spirit complete transparency: Sometimes it do be like that.”
Check out the track for yourself below.