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How Exactly Halsey Wrote And Recorded The Verses For "Bad At Love" · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. A lot of Halsey
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Speaker 1: fans say when they listened to Bad at Love, it's
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Speaker 1: almost like she's talking to them, not only in the
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Speaker 1: lyrical content, but also how she sings. It turns out
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Speaker 1: that's because of how it was made. She told the
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Speaker 1: story to Billboard where it's two producers, Justin Tranter and
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Speaker 1: Ricky Read were almost annoyed at her. The backing track
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Speaker 1: was playing when she went into a corner and disappeared
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Speaker 1: into her pen and pad. They thought she was distracted
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Speaker 1: until twenty minutes later, she explains, I told him I
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Speaker 1: got it. I ran into the booth and I sang
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Speaker 1: all four verses in succession, just kind of spit them
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Speaker 1: off the top of my head. A lot of those
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Speaker 1: first takes are the ones that made the song, so
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Speaker 1: it was this stream of consciousness, almost a freestyle in
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Speaker 1: a way. That's why I think it feels really conversational
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Speaker 1: when you hear it. Conversational, relatable or latestrack Nightmares out
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