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Halsey Explains Why Sampled Britney Spears' 'Lucky' & What She Learned From the Pop Star
justjared.comHalsey opened up about how she came to sample Britney Spears‘ iconic hit “Lucky” The 29-year-old musician recently dropped a song of the same name, which sampled the Princess of Pop’s hit from 2000.
During a recent interview, Halsey opened up about how their version of “Lucky” came to be. They also reflected on feeling a bond to Britney and revealed something that they learned from her career. Keep reading to find out more… When asked what led to their decision to sample “Lucky,” Halsey told Paper that it started from a “weird coping mechanism” that they have. “If I’m not dealing with something internally, I’ll catch myself singing a song that relates to it,” she explained. “Often, the most random songs gets suck in my head, and I’ll be like, wait, why am I singing that?” The hitmaker continued, saying, “‘Lucky’ became one of those songs” when she was receiving treatment for T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder. “I would lay there, attached to a pump, like ‘I’m so lucky, I’m a star.’ It was facetious, and then I was in the studio, and was singing it under my breath, and went ‘Wait, let’s do this.
Has anyone done this? This has been done, right? Why hasn’t this been done? There’s no way I’m actually going to interpolate this Britney Spears song in this major way.’” Once confirming that it had not been done, Halsey said that “the verses just came to me, and the bridge was the last thing to come.” “It was obviously the most revealing part [of the song],” she said. “Not to connect it to another Britney moment, but I had never really had a ‘Gimme More’ moment.
Most of my F-ck you, don’t criticize me! songs are about being in the world as this femme-presenting person and not necessarily about being a celebrity.
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