New Americana

This song finds Halsey praising individualism and not conforming to the rules of others regarding how things should be done: We are the new Americana High on legal marijuana Raised on Biggie and Nirvana We are the new Americana Speaking to Last FM, Halsey said how her diverse worldview was inspired by her parents' different music tastes. At the age of nine, the singer explained, she was listening to her father's 2Pac records and her mother's Nirvana records. "I was exposed to different cultures, different walks of life, different ideas […] so the older I got, the less scared me," Halsey continued. "And the less shocked me, appalled me, and the more open to diversity I was. […] I think that music has instilled this ideology in this generation."

Zane Lowe played the song twice during its Beats 1 world premiere and it became the second-most played song in the first month of the radio station's existence.

So who are the New Americana? "It's this idea of these kids who are part of a generation where pop culture is so heavily influential that diversity doesn't scare them the way it scared our parents and their parents. We're more accepting of different walks of life," Halsey explained to MTV News. "So I think the New Americana is racially ambiguous, people who are proud of their culture and they own it, possibly not from a binary of gender."