bringmethehalsey:“I have a song on my new record called ’New Americana’ and the chorus has a line
bringmethehalsey: “I have a song on my new record called ’New Americana’ and the chorus has a line in it that says, ’Raised on Biggie and Nirvana,‘” she revealed. “It’s because I come from a mixed race family — my dad’s black and my mom’s white — so growing up my dad was listening to a ton of old school rap and my mom was listening to a ton of ’90s grunge. So I was fortunate that my parents were rockin’ MTV when I was an infant.” It makes sense then, that her favorite bands span such a wide range. “I would say ’90s singer-songwriters, grungey like Nirvana, Alanis Morissette, the Cure, Gin Blossoms and also Tupac, Biggie, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Slick Rick — just old school bouncy hip-hop,” Halsey said, of her childhood influences. “It’s cool because it gives me such an electic mix and then I get to make something that I hope is unexpected.” -- source link