The Dancefloor Memories Behind HAAi’s “I Wanna Feel Like Someone”

‍I Wanna Feel Like Someone draws from the memories HAAi has gathered throughout her years behind the decks. The Australian producer, now based in London, channels those experiences into a track made for the dancefloor, bringing them back to the environment where they first took shape. Featuring James Massiah, the song offers another preview of DIGITiSE, due October via Mute.

The emotional openness she explored on her 2025 album HUMANiSE remains present. That record brought her voice forward and expanded her role as a singer-songwriter, while DIGITiSE carries that vulnerability into music shaped for the club. The artist calls the new album the “bigger, ravey sibling” of its predecessor.

Memories of the music HAAi has played over the years became the starting point for I Wanna Feel Like Someone. The track is part of a wider creative process that brought audiences close to the album’s development. She wrote much of DIGITiSE between marathon DJ sets, then tested its material in clubs and let those live responses shape the record.

The track emphasizes bass, frequencies, and motorik rhythms. Repetition keeps the song moving as different textures gradually take up more space. Its energy comes from that persistence, recalling those moments in a set when the body begins to follow the rhythm almost by reflex.

James Massiah’s voice keeps the focus from falling entirely on the production. It serves as a steady point among the layers of sound and gives the track room to breathe. HAAi describes his contribution as an anchor within a song dense with texture. Massiah previously collaborated with HAAi on HUMANiSE. His return also creates a natural connection between the two records.

The title reflects one of the questions running through DIGITiSE, asking how we can feel present and connected to other people when so much of life takes place through screens and digital systems. On the dance floor, that connection becomes a shared physical experience.

Community also shapes the project, from its range of collaborators to material developed in direct contact with club audiences. Responses gathered during HAAi’s sets became part of the album’s creative process.

I Wanna Feel Like Someone leaves DIGITiSE suspended between memory and the present moment, taking something gathered over years behind the decks and placing it back in the space where it began. With James Massiah’s voice cutting through the track’s dense production, the song offers a glimpse of an album built to be experienced as much as heard.

Listen to I Wanna Feel Like Someone, pre-save DIGITiSE. and connect with HAAi on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube.