Lose My Mind
by Don Toliver (featuring Doja Cat)

Album: F1: The Movie (2025)
Charted: 85
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Songfacts®:

  • Released on April 30, 2025, "Lose My Mind" is what happens when you take Don Toliver, Doja Cat, Ryan Tedder, Hans Zimmer, and the entire velocity-loving world of Formula 1, put them in a blender, and hit the button labeled "cinematic pop with existential overtones." The result is a synth-bathed track that feels part nightclub, part pit lane.
  • The song serves as a flagship single for F1: The Movie, a film in which Brad Pitt plays a washed-up F1 driver named Sonny Hayes who, after a near high-speed disaster, is coaxed back behind the wheel. His comeback story runs parallel to that of a young rookie played by Damson Idris, and together they do very dramatic things in extremely fast cars.
  • Don Toliver handles the chorus, delivering lines like, "Yeah, it feels so good, I might just lose my mind," with the sort of breathy emotional turmoil that suggests he's deeply in love. Doja Cat's chest-thumping verse celebrates resilience, reinvention, and triumph over adversity.
  • "Lose My Mind" is a shimmering, synth-drenched club track (courtesy of producers Ryan Tedder, Hans Zimmer and Grant Boutin). They give the song a cinematic and high-energy feel that aligns with the adrenaline of Formula 1 racing.
  • The music video, directed by Christian Breslauer (Lizzo, Ariana Grande), showcases visually striking, race-themed dream sequences. Don Toliver performs inside a Formula One car with futuristic visuals and X-ray shots of the vehicle. Doja Cat appears as a half-human, half-car hybrid brought to life by robots and suspended in a pool of motor oil. She's clothed, of course, in Mugler.
  • This isn't Toliver's first musical lap around the track. In 2021, he turned up on "Fast Car" for F9: The Fast Saga, proving he has a knack for songs that make you want to drive something irresponsibly expensive. Doja Cat, meanwhile, returns to the movie soundtrack game after 2022's "Vegas" for the film Elvis, though this time she's traded rhinestones for motor oil.

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