Dua Saleh Turns Climate Anxiety Into a Song Called “Flood”

Dua Saleh keeps landing in places that are on fire or underwater. It happened in Glendale during wildfire season, then again in Cardiff while filming “Sex Education” during severe floods. Rather than treat it as bad luck, Saleh wrote a song.

The track is called “Flood,” and it emerged from a longer conversation about dystopia, planetary breakdown, and the kind of collective detachment that makes real response feel impossible. In a Rolling Stone interview published this week, Saleh described a creeping public nihilism that no longer takes ecological warning seriously. “We’re apathetic,” they said. “There’s so much nihilism in our society because we’re just traumamaxxing, but we’re also watching politicians jestermaxxing.”

The interview ties personal displacement to a bigger observation about what gets ignored. Saleh’s phrasing catches a particular exhaustion — a state where disaster just gets absorbed into the endless scroll. “Flood” reads as an attempt to interrupt that loop, to make the threat feel immediate again.

No release details for the song are confirmed yet. But for an artist who has moved across genres and borders, the track signals a sharper turn toward writing from the crisis itself. Saleh’s earlier work often treated identity and survival with a certain friction. Here, that friction scales outward, connecting a flooded street in Wales to a fire months earlier in California. It’s a small geography built from direct experience, not borrowed alarm.