It’s been surmised that Matty Healy, frontman of the 1975, is the subject, and though Halsey has spoken of their relationship, she’s kept the specifics of “Colors” open-ended. The “colors” refer to the hues of a vibrant relationship fading over time to a loveless gray, with drugs involved in the process (“Everything is blue / his pills, his hands, his jeans”). It’s catchy, infectious, almost glowing, but the subject matter is especially dour. This was the second single released off Badlands. She also gets to nod to her teenage love of pop-punk by shouting out Blink-182. Perhaps you’ve heard it? Halsey takes on the second verse of this mammoth hit, playing the part of Andrew T aggart’s ex-flame, who was looking pretty in a hotel bar four years after they’d last seen each other. We were careful to call “New Americana” Halsey’s “ most recognizable solo song” because of this little collaboration with the Chainsmokers. She told Fader:ĥ Seconds of Summer, Beyonce, Taylor Swift Take Top Honors in Tumblr's 2016 Year-End Charts… Halsey, who is bisexual, has addressed how she felt how the video exposed many people’s distorted views of female-female relationships. Two months before the album dropped, she shared this music video, which finds her getting intimate with another woman. She eventually went with Astralwerks, which included “Ghost” on her 2014 debut EP Room 93, and eventually, on Badlands the following year.
“Ghost” appears as the final track on Badlands, but it’s actually the genesis of Halsey’s stardom. It’s what came out of the New Jersey studio session encouraged by Li, a session she first hoped would make “a quick couple of hundred dollars writing yogurt commercials,” she told Billboard for her March 2016 cover story. Instead, she got this frosty electronic song… and a lot of calls from major label A&Rs (Republic, Atlantic, Island, RCA) shortly after she uploaded it to iTunes.
The first song they recorded is actually the start of our five-song playlist for getting acquainted with Halsey… On one of her many trips into the city, she met Anthony Li (then a member of the Warped Tour band Action Item, now her co-manager) who encouraged her to record some original music, aside from the tongue-in-cheek Harry Styles and Taylor Swift parodies loved by her considerable Tumblr and YouTube followings. Born Ashley Frangipane, the New Jersey native had been creating, performing, and attracting followers long before she decided to move around the letters of her given first name and go by the moniker of a familiar stop on Brooklyn’s L Train. Before she was jamming with A-listers, a few IRL encounters and many, many interactions with her legion of online fans built up the Halsey we know today.
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