Halsey takes it back to Oops I Did It Again time. On Monday, Halsey shared a snippet of her upcoming single “Lucky,” revealing that the track samples Britney Spears' 2000 classic.
“When I was five years old, I always felt like Britney was singing directly to me. 24 years later, those words have become different,” he wrote on Instagram. “I love you forever.”
The clip soundtracked a video of Halsey sporting her new pink hair, pink glasses, short shorts and fur boots, mimicking the Y2K style that surrounded Spears' music.
“But I'm so lucky, I'm a star/But I cry, cry, cry in the lonely heart thinking/If there's nothing missing in my life/Then why do these tears come at night?” he sings in the clip, slightly altering Spears' original words with a first-person twist.
Over the past few days, Halsey has been sharing teaser videos to promote “Lucky,” including a goofy clip of her pretending to be a Disney Channel star, posing for a fantastic tabloid at a gas station and drinking strawberry milk for a fake Got Milk commercial.
Halsey has long been a fan of Spears and has tweeted about the singer, including one about her movie Crossroadsdating back to 2014. It stated “old Britneyas inspiration for her song 'Walls Could Talk'. In 2021, as the singer fought for her conservative position, Halsey shared a tweet in support of Spears: “Bless Britney and I hope with all my heart that she is granted freedom from this abusive system. She deserves it more than anything. I admire her courage to speak up for herself today.”
Before sharing colorful teasers of her new era, Halsey released “The End,” a precursor to her fifth album that featured her words about her health struggles after being diagnosed with Lupus SLE and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder .
“Every couple of years now, a doctor says I'm sick/Pulls out a brand new bag of tricks/And then they put it on me/And at first it was my brain, then a skeleton in pain/And I do I don't like to complain, but i say sorry,” she sang on the track.
Halsey's latest LP, the rock album If I can't have love, I want power Co-produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Rose, it was released in 2021. The new music will also be her first release under Columbia Records.
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