Halsey

Released: August 28, 2020

Songwriter: James Mtume Kalkutta Halsey Larzz Principato

Producer: Larzz Principato Kalkutta Lido

[Verse 1]
Cigarettes and tiny liquor bottles
Just what you'd expect inside her new Balenciaga
Viral mess, turned dreams into an empire
Self-made success, now she rolls with Rockefellers

[Pre-Chorus]
Survival of the richest, the city's ours until the fall
They're Monaco and Hamptons bound
(But we don't feel like outsiders at all)

[Chorus]
We are the new Americana (Oh-oh-oh)
High on legal marijuana (Sky-high)
Raised on Biggie and Nirvana (Oh-oh-oh)
We are the new Amеricana (Oh-oh)

[Verse 2]
Young James Dean, some say hе looks just like his father
But he could never love somebody's daughter
Football team, he loved more than just the game
So he vowed to be his husband at the altar

[Pre-Chorus]
Survival of the richest, the city's ours until the fall
They're Monaco and Hamptons bound
(But we don't feel like outsiders at all)

[Chorus]
We are the new Americana (Oh-oh-oh)
High on legal marijuana (Sky-high)
Raised on Biggie and Nirvana (Oh-oh-oh)
We are the new Americana (Oh-oh)

[Bridge]
We know very well who we are
So we hold it down when summer starts
What kind of dough have you been spending?
What kind of bubblegum have you been blowing lately?

[Chorus]
We are the new Americana (Oh-oh-oh)
High on legal marijuana (Sky-high)
Raised on Biggie and Nirvana (Oh-oh-oh)
We are the new Americana (Oh-oh)
Let me here you fucking sing it!
We are the new Americana
Fuck yeah!
High on legal marijuana (Sky high)
Raised on Biggie and Nirvana
We are the new Americana (Oh-oh)

Halsey is the stage name of New Jersey singer Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. It is an anagram of her first name and reference to the Halsey Street subway stop and street in Brooklyn where she used to live. The bio on her website

I am Halsey. I will never be anything but honest. I write songs about sex and being sad."

Halsey was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 17. This has greatly influenced her creative process from the start of her career. Songs like “Control” and “Gasoline” explicitly delve into her psychological and emotional battles. Manic, Halsey’s third album and arguably her rawest and most emotionally vulnerable, was written in a fully manic state rather than a depressive one.

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