“My own fans are hands down meaner to me than any other people on the planet,” the singer wrote on Tumblr.
Singer-songwriter Halsey isn’t holding back. The three-time Grammy nominee addressed the criticism surrounding her new single Lucky by calling out fans for being “meaner” than anyone else.
On July 26, Halsey dropped Lucky, the first single from their fifth studio album. However, it was not the reaction she was expecting. “My own fans are hands down meaner to me than any other people on the planet. Not speaking for all of you, of course,” she wrote on her Tumblr, tiredandlonelymuse, on July 30.
Halsey continued, “It used to be just a minority that were awful to me and now it seems like a majority have only stuck around to chime in occasionally with their opinion of how much they hate me or how awful I am.” She added, “It’s hard to want to engage in a space that is completely devoid of any kindness, sympathy, patience, or, to be honest, human decency.”
Halsey’s Health Update
In June, Halsey revealed she has been privately dealing with several health issues, including lupus and a rare white-blood-cell disorder. That same month, she shared her struggles in The End, her first solo single in two years, singing, ““Every couple of years now, a doctor says I’m sick / Pulls out a brand new bag of tricks / And then they lay it on me / And at first, it was my brain, then a skeleton in pain.”
“I almost lost my life.” Halsey continued in her Tumblr post, “I am not gonna do anything that doesn’t make me happy anymore. I can’t spiritually afford it. When I got sick, all I could think about was getting better so I could come back and be a part of this again, but I don’t even know what this is anymore and I want to crawl in a hole. I regret coming back.”
Britney Spears Responds
Lucky samples Britney Spears’ 2000 hit of the same name, and details Halsey’s battle with illness and her struggles with fame. “I told everybody I was fine for a whole damn year, and that’s the biggest lie of my career,” she sings.
Although Spears gave Halsey permission to use the sample, the Toxic singer initially criticized the music video on social media, saying she felt “harassed, violated, and bullied” by it. However, Spears later retracted her comments, posting, “Fake news. That was not me on my phone. I love Halsey and that’s why I deleted it.”
In response, Halsey wrote, “And I love Britney. I always have and always will. You were the first person who ever made me realise what it means to feel inspired. You continue to inspire me every day.”
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