- 2025-10-16
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MUSIC
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Bridges Releases New Song “Life Of The Party”
Auckland-based singer-songwriter Rachel Hamilton's solo project Bridges released a new song “Life Of The Party” on October 10, 2025.
The song is the third and final pre-release single from her upcoming sophomore EP of the same name, which is set to be releases in early 2026.
It is a pop piano ballad. The track was written by Rachel Hamilton and produced by Joel Jones.
Rachel Hamilton said of the song, “I wrote the pre-chorus and chorus for this originally on acoustic guitar, alone in my bedroom. I then fleshed out the production ideas myself in Logic, which is what inspired the verses. It's that demo I then took to Joel Jones, who built on those production ideas to create the final song.”
She continued, “It's about social anxiety - forcing yourself out of the house to be social, getting to the party, and realising you're so stuck in your head you're an anxious mess. BUT! you're so practiced at covering it up, making jokes, being the 'life of the party', nobody can tell how anxious you are. The song explores the juxtaposition of being super upbeat, with undertones of anxiety and sadness. We love a sad banger! I hope Life Of The Party finds the people who can relate to this feeling, and helps put words to something that can be hard to talk about, or acknowledge even to yourself.”- Rachel Hamilton shared on social media, “When I started writing songs at 13 years old, it was for two main reasons. It was a way of letting people know how I was feeling, and making sense of my own mind - how I processed the world. It's always been such a satisfying puzzle to me, to put language and music together in such a way that it can almost make you feel like you're experiencing the song's situation without actually being there. Songwriting is my way of letting people into my experience of the world, and 'Life Of The Party' is definitely that. It's about how I learnt to people please as a way of feeling safe; how I get stuck in my head trying to read cues from people's body language; how frustrated I get when the anxiety kicks in when it has no real reason to anymore.”
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She added, “If my song 'Pills' is about depression, 'Life Of The Party' is its sequel about anxiety. Releasing these sorts of songs helps me feel more connected to people; so that if anybody wants to understand me more, they have the opportunity to. And in turn, if people tell me they relate to the song, I can understand them more without us even needing to say much.”
Photo by Frances Carter - source : Apple Music
