2017Released
3:01

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Bad At Love. By Songfacts®.

In this song, Halsey outlines all the reasons she is "bad at love," but keeps persisting anyway. The singer penned the tune in the midst of a breakup, as she drowned her sorrows with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

Hopeless Fountain Kingdom is heavily influenced by Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film adaptation of Romeo + Juliet. This song is an extension of the doomed love story as Halsey identifies with Leonardo DiCaprio's role from the romantic drama. Recorded in Los Angeles with her producer Ricky Reed, the singer repeatedly told Reed that she really wanted the tune to "sound like Leonardo DiCaprio in a Hawaiian T-shirt in a droptop yellow convertible car - driving down the highway like in Miami Vice with all his friends."

Much like another HFK track "Strangers," Halsey indicates at her bisexuality in her lyrics, by alluding to same-sex relationships. In this instance, the first verse is about a boy back home in Michigan, and the second concerns a secretive affair with a London girl. Halsey admitted to Billboard that her relationships have one thing in common: She's not very good at love. "Going through one by one in my head thinking about each individual relationship and what I did to f--k it up," she explained.

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Bad At Love.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
118BPM

Album

The album Bad At Love is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Bad At Love.
Universal Music Group
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