“Blinded By Love” Kicks Off Summer With a Golden-Hour Rush From Bad Boyfriend and Jaime Deraz
Bad Boyfriend and Jaime Deraz lean into pure summer adrenaline on “Blinded By Love,” an uptempo pop/dance track that captures the reckless abandon of falling fast in the heat of the season.
5/19/20231 min read
Released May 19, 2023, the single reflects on a fleeting romance that started under the sun and still burns deep, even after the moment has passed. It is a record built on glow, yearning, and the kind of carefree bliss that makes you ignore the warning signs because the feeling is too good.
“Blinded By Love” frames summer romance as a kind of beautiful risk. Sometimes you know it will end. Sometimes you do it anyway.
A fleeting romance rendered in sun-soaked imagery
The track’s world is painted in vivid, cinematic snapshots that feel like memory. “Golden glow ocean air, purple skies take me there” sets the scene like a postcard, pulling the listener into a place that feels warm, hazy, and unreal in the best way. The writing leans into sensory detail, giving the romance a setting you can practically see.
From there, the lyric turns physical and immediate. “So drunk on your lips” captures the intoxication of early obsession, while “We’re feeling like kids so blinded by love” ties the concept together, framing the romance as both euphoric and naive. The song’s message is not to be careful. It is to surrender to the moment, even if it is temporary, even if it burns.
Even without explicitly listing every lyric pull here, the song’s concept remains clear: love as sunlight, love as heat, love as something you are not supposed to stare at directly, but cannot help yourself.
Why it POPS! 🍬
“Blinded By Love” resonates because it captures a truth people rarely admit without judgment: sometimes you know something is reckless, and you do it anyway. Sometimes you choose the bliss over the logic. The track gives that choice a soundtrack, wrapping longing and nostalgia inside an uptempo summer pulse.
Bad Boyfriend and Jaime Deraz deliver a bright, euphoric dance-pop single that feels like golden hour bottled up, a reminder that sometimes it is okay to look directly into the sun.

