Halsey’s new track “Strangers” brings Fifth Harmony alum Lauren Jauregui into the ring on her first track as a solo artist.
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In the video, the singers play rivals, inspired by the cult classic film “Girlfight”, suited up in boxing gloves the pair (Luna and Rosa) take their feelings into the ring.
After exchanging a few blows, the “Closer” singer reigns supreme in an epic comeback.
Greg Kurtsin produced the female-love anthem and acts as a single for Hasley’s “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom”.
Shortly after the video was released, Twitter called out the video for not being explicitly queer like the pronouns the song specifically uses.
“I just wanted the metaphor to apply to any kind of relationship,” she wrote to Twitter. “It was a hard situation. The song is obviously my effort towards greater representation but I didn’t want to make the clickbait sexy vid everyone wanted, cause it does no justice to the narrative of the song I wrote.”
“It literally IS a bisexual story,” Halsey said in another Tweet. “Luna has romantic relationships with both Rosa and Solis. Her relationship with a man doesn’t nullify her bisexuality. Not in an imaginary music video universe and not in real life either!”
“Hopeless Fountain Kingdom” is available now.
