Genius Meanings
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Halsey – Strange Love
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“Strange Love” revolves around the nature of a discreet, yet exploited relationship from Halsey’s past that still haunts her. She stands by her freedom to utilize the subject
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Halsey – Strange Love (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Verse 1] / Everybody wants to know / If we fucked on the bathroom sink / How your hands felt in my hair / If we were high on amphetamines / And everybody wants to know / How we
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Halsey – Gasoline
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“Gasoline” centers on Halsey’s mental state (including bipolar disorder’s influence) when it comes to fame’s pressures. It appears on her debut studio album, Badlands.
In January
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Halsey – Colors
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“Colors” is about falling out of love with someone because they changed too much as a person.
The context behind family and addictions provides evidence that “Colors” is about The
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G-Eazy – Had Enough
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“Had Enough” is the final single off G-Eazy’s experimental project Everything’s Strange Here. The song addresses G-Eazy’s relationship with ex-girlfriend Halsey. The two had a
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Halsey – New Americana
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Although it was a previously released track, the revamped studio version of “New Americana” premiered on Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio, receiving enormous praise. DJ Zane Lowe spun
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Halsey – Ashley
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Halsey opens her third album, Manic with “Ashley” – a title taken from her own name, Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. Fittingly, the song introduces Halsey fans to a new era, an album
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Halsey – Is There Somewhere
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Halsey shows the listeners her point-of-view on falling in love with someone, despite them being in a relationship and being their second choice. When she’s around them, she tries
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Halsey – Ghost
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“Ghost,” originally released as a single from debut EP Room 93 was the first song Halsey ever wrote and recorded. Following its success, it then appeared on her debut album
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Halsey – Drive
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“Drive” touches on a love that lives within boundaries. The lovers keep their relationship distinct—careful not to make the first move, yet inevitably enjoying each other’s
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Juice WRLD & Halsey – Life’s a Mess
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“Life’s a Mess” is a promotional single off of Juice WRLD’s first posthumous studio album Legends Never Die. On the track, Juice and Halsey convey their troubles throughout their
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Halsey – Coming Down
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“Coming Down” is the eleventh track from Halsey’s debut studio album, Badlands. Long before the album’s official release, the song was posted onto Twitter, linking a Soundcloud
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Billie Eilish – my strange addiction
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“my strange addiction” was most likely named after the TLC documentary series My Strange Addiction, a show about people with unusual compulsive behaviors.
Eilish initially teased
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Halsey – Haunting
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[Intro] / Keep on haunting / Keep on haunting me / Keep on haunting / Keep on haunting me / [Verse 1] / I was as pure as a river / But now I think I'm possessed / You put a fever
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Halsey – Hold Me Down
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Halsey explained the meaning and inspiration behind “Hold Me Down” at a live show in June of 2015:
I was meeting a bunch of mean, old men who thought they knew better than I. And
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Merkules – Him & I (Remix)
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{Verse 1} / When I look at you I get this strange feelin’ / I can tell you’re not the same as these lame women / Everytime you lean in for that kiss, it just taste different
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Halsey – Is There Somewhere (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Verse 1] / You were dancing in your tube socks in our hotel room / Flashing those eyes like highway signs / Light one up and hand it over, rest your head upon my shoulder / I just
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Halsey – Finally // beautiful stranger
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Following on from “clementine,” Halsey released “Finally // beautiful stranger” alongside “SUGA’s Interlude” as the fourth installment of Manic.
The track narrates her first
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Post Malone (Ft. Future & Halsey) – Die For Me
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“Die For Me” is a trap-pop banger that features Post and Future lamenting their relationships with untrustworthy women, while Halsey provides a women’s perspective on the bridge
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Halsey – Young God
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Halsey mentioned the inspiration for the song and its title on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/halsey/status/635890568929800192
“Young God” could be interpreted as a sequel to “Ghost
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Halsey – Ghost (Lost Kings Remix)
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[Intro] / I'm searching for something that I can't reach / [Verse 1] / I don't like them innocent, I don't want no face fresh / Want them wearing leather, begging, let me be your
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mgk & Camila Cabello – Bad Things
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On this joint single with Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello, a former member of Fifth Harmony, Cabello interpolates Fastball’s 1998 song “Out Of My Head.” The duo illustrates a
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Halsey – wipe your tears
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[Chorus] / Hey, you know I tell her all the time / Nothing's gonna hurt you, baby / Nothing's gonna make you cry / I'll be damned if I ever let another hand / Wipe your tears
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Halsey – Control
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“Control” is a personification of Halsey’s bipolar disorder, which she has opened up about in several interviews since she was diagnosed in her teenage years. She questions who is
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Halsey – Roman Holiday
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Halsey speaks of “Roman Holiday” as a nostalgic, autobiographical song motivated lyrically by the film of the same name, as it essentially parallels how she reflected upon her real
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Halsey (Ft. Quavo) – Lie
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“Lie” talks about the sexual tension between the two lovers. Halsey talks about the dissatisfaction she gets at the end of the night which also hints at the messed up personalities
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Halsey – Ghost (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Intro] / I'm searching for something that I can't reach / [Verse 1] / I don't like them innocent, I don't want no face fresh / Want them wearing leather, begging, let me be your
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Halsey – Woman
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She mistakes my name / I feel the light come around / Strange as it seems / I'm bursting at the seams / And oh, I've got a woman now / Her wallet photos don't turn me on / I feel
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Taylor Swift – Begin Again
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Swift closes the tumultuous Red album with “Begin Again,” on which she expresses her hope for a budding relationship while reflecting on past romantic mistakes. It ends the album
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Halsey – Tiny Little Babies (Talking Break)
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[Halsey] / Oh man. / Hi. / You guys are so loud. / I'm glad I have this moment to talk to you because this whole thing is going by so fast I can't even like, process what's
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Halsey – Trouble (Stripped)
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“Trouble” is the closing track on Room 93, Halsey’s first extended play. It is stripped because the song is a demo version featuring only vocals and piano, pulling back from
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Hailee Steinfeld & Grey (Ft. Zedd) – Starving
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“Starving” is about a relationship that’s getting more adventurous in and outside of the bedroom. The song starts with just guitars before surging into a frantic beat drop provided
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Halsey – Castle
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“Castle” opens the main gates to enter the Badlands, the booming metropolis where Halsey says “cognitive activity happens” in correlation to her state of mind.
Castle was first
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Halsey – Gasoline (Reimagined) [Live]
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[Verse 1] / Are you insane like me? Been in pain like me? / Bought a hundred dollar bottle of champagne like me? / Just to pour that motherfucker down the drain like me? / Would
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Halsey (Ft. Lauren Jauregui) – Strangers
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Viewing the song through hfk’s narrative, “Strangers” is about the characters meeting at a “crazy house party” (explained in “Alone” and “Heaven In Hiding”) that takes place at
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Halsey – New Americana (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Intro] / (Oh-oh-oh) / [Spoken] / All the way / [Verse 1] / Cigarettes and tiny liquor bottles / Just what you'd expect inside her new Balenciaga / Viral mess, turned dreams into
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Halsey – Colors pt. II (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Intro] / Mm / Everything is— / [Chorus] / Everything is (Blue) / Everything is (Blue) / You're dripping like a saturated sun (Sun) / Everything is blue (Blue) / I hope you make it
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Halsey – Coming Down (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Verse 1] / I found God, I found him in a lover / When his hair falls in his face / And his hands so cold they shake / I found the devil, found him in a lover / And his lips like
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Taylor Swift – Blank Space
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Taylor Swift plays her “serial dater” image to her advantage with “Blank Space,” a synth-pop anthem that the RIAA certified 8x platinum in July 2018. Swift explained to GQ in
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B.o.B – So Good
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Strange Clouds’ second single details B.o.B’s plans for taking a girl on an “all over the world” trip. The song has been certified Double Platinum in the USA.
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Halsey – Colors (Live from Webster Hall)
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[Verse 1] / Your little brother never tells you but he loves you so / You said your mother only smiled on her TV show / You're only happy when your sorry head is filled with dope
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Lorde – Liability
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“Liability” is new territory for Lorde: it’s a soft, piano-driven ballad that’s far more personal than her previous work. Lorde herself described the song as “a strange part of [
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Genius English Translations – BTS - 친구 (Friends) (English Translation)
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“친구” (Friends) is about V’s and Jimin’s friendship. The song talks about their friendship and high school experiences, as they are bringing up throwbacks to old events, such as
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