You should really listen to her older stuff: Ghost, Colors, Hold Me Down, Hurricane, Strange Love, basically everything from BADLANDS because that's the music that made me love her
@@hannie8896 yeah in the collab she did with post malone she sang "sold (idk the exact number) copies of a break up note" and I feel like in this situation she definitely has the right to be petty about it
nightmare was released when the whole abortion issue happened and everyone halsey spoke to was like “oh my god you released this at the perfect time!” and she was like lol whatever time it was released there would be some issue with woman’s rights at the moment
Halsey said Graveyard (the song itself) is about abusive relationships. At the Grammy Museum she said it's about a situation where she literally could've gotten herself killed because she loved that person so much that she risked her safety for the person, hence "I would've followed all the way to the graveyard/sometimes the warning signs can feel like butterflies/you look the door you're drunk at the steering wheel"
Been there, done that! So sooo crazy to think what love can do to you. Very blessed to have gotten away and I understand this Song so sooooo much xxxxxx #halseyforever
MareLoves probably g greasy or a relationship she had before she really got big. she dated someone who was an addict and was very abusive/controlling. he was older than her too, I think she was about 17 and he was in his 20s? she talks about him in her 2018 women’s march speech
I'm so happy you finally did Halsey! Other songs you should listen to: Ghost, New Americana, Gasoline, Strangers (ft. Lauren Jauregui), Sorry, Clementine, SUGA's Interlude (ft. SUGA of BTS)
finally / beautiful stranger is about dominic/yungblud! they’re ex’s now, but its ashley’s first love song and it really says something about their relationship! i love it, and thank you for reacting to her
Hope you don’t mind I ask this but has she said that? And if so, where? This is not hate, just wondering but wouldnt surprise me if it was and would love her explaining it❤️
Filofix she hasen’t straight out said it’s about yungblud, but she has said it’s her first love song. however, when they dated she’s talked about the situations in the song - for example like how they met. and the stories from what they’ve told us before, and what the lyrics in the song says matches; and therefore we know it’s about dominic
bruh I always just kinda assumed and took it as fact it was about Dom, but never really THOUGHT thought about the lyrics til just now and wow, the song just got so much more bittersweet and sad,,,,, like I’ve known since it dropped but idk, it feels like the realization just set in 😂😭😭
I love Halsey and I love Nightmare. As a female bartender, I've worked hard nights, double shifts, been talked to like garbage, working till 6am, and then had multiple men tell me I should smile more. Give us a smile love, you'd look attractive if you smiled. So when I first heard that lyric I was like YES! I'm exhausted and not here to be your eye candy, don't tell me what to feel, I don't owe you shit! That's just one lyric of hers! 😂 I thought you might be interested in how that song feels as a woman because you may not of had experiences like that. Love your videos! Xxx
Oh my gods. Your commentary on Nightmare about how she is just yelling but not yelling at you. THANK YOU. YOU GET IT. So many men take the anger of women personally when they don't need to. And the ones that should aren't necessarily listening to us women anyway.
Trying to stan recommendations: YUNGBLUD (part 2) Harry styles (especially his fine line album) Twenty-one pilots (part 3) Avi kaplan Dodie clarke If you want to Branch out a bit I recommend comedy musicians: -bo Burnham -tim minchin
Yess more Halsey! A song that I absolutely love is “Sorry” from her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom album, and then hopeless ft. Cashmere cat, drive, ghost, gasoline, basically her entire “Badlands Deluxe Edition” album is a must listen
Please please please react to NF. Preferably in this specific order: 1. When I Grow Up 2. Mansion 3. How Could You Leave Us? 4. Intro 3 5. The Search 6. Time
I really dig your expressive, unbridled delivery and thorough response to each track. Your delivery comes across as incredibly sincere and I find myself hanging on through the entire video to hear your reflections. Great series dude!
Dude this was great! I highly recommend “girl in red” for you to listen to next, her songs are such bops, I would suggest “bad idea!” and “dead girl in the pool” if you do want to check her out!
OK SO PLEASE REACT TO MORE HALSEY SHE HAS SOME OTHER AWESOME SONGS I’d probably recommend songs like colors, control, castle and gasoline And if you’re looking for music that she’s done with other people, there’s 11 minute which is a song with her, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker. She also did a recent collab with a member of BTS (as you seemed to like Boy with Luv), she collaborated with SUGA for her recent album and the song is LITERALLY called “SUGA’s Interlude”
Welcome to Halsey, dude. She’s one of my favorite artists. I’m 53 and totally stan everything about her. Both her albums are stellar and I eagerly await her third album in couple weeks. Please do more Halsey. Her lyrics are worth delving into. She’s really gifted in that regard. Have you checked out Lorde? She’s another real deal bonafide ARTIST. I would love to hear your take on her.
out of curiosity, would you consider doing an in order reaction/stan of her album trilogy? it goes: 1. hopeless fountain kingdom (Album Trailer) 2. now or never 3. bad at love 4. sorry 5. alone 6. strangers. i think you would really enjoy the story!
I love how protective you are of every person who is in a bad situation. Even in a music video where it’s fake. You’re the protective, sensitive man we all need! 😻
Trying to stan - AJR Weak, sober up, and burn the house down are their most popular ones. I also come hang out, don’t throw out my legos, next up forever, and finale are ones I also recommend
I hope there’s a part two reaction to Halsey where Bill not only reacts to you should be sad, but also to some of her older music rather than her newer stuff!
Omg I’m so glad you decided to do halsey! I can’t wait to watch this when I get home!!!❤️❤️ *Edit:* I loved your reaction and commentary! I’m excited that you got to experience her music and complex narratives. She writes such beautiful lyrics that actually have meaning to her and the way she tells stories about her life/character is just so damn beautiful she’s one of my favorite artists and I’m just happy that you got to listen to her!! I would *LOVE* a part 2(or 3 or 4 honestly just review all of her music lol) with some of her old music from Badlands, Room 93 or honestly any of her music in general! Bad at love is actually part of a story (similar to Pan!c’s 3 part story) from the album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom. But thank you for this video!!❤️
I feel like Halsey is a really polarizing figure on the internet but I'm not keyed into the Twittosphere well enough to know why. Anyway my point is it's nice to see someone with a clean slate react to her and come away with positive reactions because to me, I've felt similar to what you've said, that in her music and persona there's a lot of grappling with big and important issues and it's a vulnerable position but she does it really well. If you liked these songs I feel like you would also appreciate the music from her first album as well, I think it's actually even a little blunter in tone than her second album (maybe a kind of "putting it 100% out there on the line, no holds barred" debut bravado - especially 'Hold Me Down' and 'Control' in my opinion, musically as well as lyrically.)
thank you so much for making this video🥺🥺 i love seeing people appreciate halsey, especially for her writing, if you do a pt2 listen to ‘sorry’ and some of her older stuff from 2015
im so glad this popped up on my recommended and i had the brain cells to click on it !! halsey is one of my favorite artists and im so glad when people find her music and really just connect with it and see it as more than the stuff that's on the radio all the time i know a lot of people have said this but i highly recommend listening to her room 93 ep (the first ever album/ep she put out) and her badlands album. also listen to hopeless fountain kingdom while you're at it... pretty much just listen to everything lol also since you love analyzing the music, lyrics, and videos i would recommend looking up some theories on the connections between her songs. each of her albums tell a story and the music videos (and even performances) all work together to showcase that story as well. there's even been connections between her room 93 ep and her upcoming album manic!! so like it's insane how much detail she puts into absolutely everything also! i would recommend looking into her as a person bc she's incredible... she's super open about being biracial, bisexual, having mental health issues, and other health issues women face like endometriosis and miscarriages. she's also an amazing painter and drawer... she's done art for some of her single covers and has even painted upside down during her snl performance! she also wrote an amazingly emotional poem that she read during the women's march a couple years ago. anyways!! imma stop now, i just love her a lot and im so glad you enjoyed her music!!
I have a tattoo inspired by her song Hurricane that she released on her first EP, Room 93. There’s a lot to Stan here, Bill! She’s an exceptional artist and creator!
She has such a big place in my heart, I saw her a week ago for the first time and I cried instantly. She sounds exactly the same live and has incredible presence 🖤🖤 I'm so glad you love her
Welcome back! Please do more Halsey, the deluxe edition of her debut album Badlands is great! Also, please, I beg of you, do an episode for Hozier. His music is transcendent.
you're the only man (i've come across) that has reacted to Nightmare and actually understood the lyrics and the meaning behind it and been able to express your thoughts on this topic
I love how this guy is not afraid to be honest about how he feels. I love watching him discover music that I already love and getting to see all of the feelings I have for that music play out in his face. It’s very refreshing hearing him put words to the feelings I have when I listen to these songs.
So glad you got to experience Halsey lol! Part 2? Her older stuff is also really good such as ghost ( there are two music videos one where she is with a woman and one with a man. We love a bi queen), new Americana, her albums hopeless fountain kingdom, and badlands, and her song strangers ft. Lauren Jauregui.
I cried like a baby the first time I heard finally/beautiful stranger, mainly because I instantly knew who the song was about and was so happy it was such a beautiful and honest song for a beautiful person. I loved your reaction to it ❤ I would love to know if that was her original idea for the video, being such a visual person,if she had an Idea when she first wrote it and then the relationship changed and she changed it.. I still love it as it's the happy/sad, not totally knowing what you should feel when you listen to it ,that she does so well. We're seeing her in Manchester in march, with my 8year old.. it's her first arena experience after her first festival last summer and an intimate gig with Yungblud in November. She's well ant truly hooked! I'm glad you liked Halsey. Thanks for reacting.
after seeing this I want a whole video reacting to manic from you!!! there are so many genres on that album and it still blends so well together! Also I don’t know if you knew, but both badlands (room 93, her debut EP is part of badlands) and hopeless fountain kingdom are concept albums. HFK is a retelling of Romeo + Juliet with lots of influences from the 1996 film. If you watch the album trailers and then the music videos in order you’ll see a storyline! same if you just listen to the albums in full!
Trying to stan: AJR (their album neotheatre) would be so great! I never see anyone talk about them but their music, that album especially, is so so good, I recommend listening to the entire album probably in order but definitely starting with Next up Forever and finishing with Finale !! 🥺
No lie, the first time I heard Finally // Beautiful Stranger, I also sobbed. It felt very cathartic. I love Halsey. I’m definitely gonna go see her on her Manic World Tour. She’s so talented.
if there's a part two you should react to clementine, sorry, ghost, colors, new americana, alone and some live performances (nightmare at the armory, graveyard at the amas)
This was so good, you listened to every song I wanted you to :D I love hearing your input, however I just want to say that songs like"Nightmare" and "Queendom" by Aurora are for you too. 50% of the point of feminism is men so just bc you can't relate to some of the lyrics doesn't mean the song can't empower you in some way. Like Aurora said, "you have a home in my queendom". :)
I love how you respond to new music and how you actually allow yourself to absorb deeper meanings and not what's just on the surface. I personally would like to see what you think of the artist NF, he's a rapper with a christian background and has very intense music. Most people liken him to eminem. I would recommend the songs: "Therapy Session", "Mansion", "Paralyzed", or "Time". Disclaimer though, his music is definitely emotionally heavy.
I love Halsey! All of her songs are amazing, but here's a few of my favorite: Clementine Walls could talk Suga's interlude Young God Ghost Drive Control
I loved this video! I would love to see your reactions to her live performances of Without Me and Nightmare, Without Me from the BBMAs and Nightmare from The Voice, I believe. Also I just want to say I love how much you analyze the music. You don't just listen and go oh this is nice, you look for the message and you really put a lot of thought into interpretation of it. And there is obviously nothing wrong with a fun song that doesn't necessarily have a deep meaning or a strong message but I love that when one does you really sit there and deconstruct it and tell us your thought process and how you get to what you think the song is about. Also the fact that you are so willing to share your emotions openly, I really love that! It's one of the reasons I love watching your videos! Also I offer many internet hugs because that way you can have hugs if you want them but also not have to be touched if you are not comfortable being touched by random strangers!
I love that you included Nightmare and absolutely got it. So many dudes don't. I don't know if she's already on your list but I would LOVE to see you try to stan Melanie Martinez.
You’ve been one of my favorite reactors for a long time now and I’m so happy you finally reacted to my queen please do a part 2 of trying to stan Halsey
Try to Stan Steam powered Giraffe! Good songs to react- •I don’t have a name for it. •Honeybee •Brass Goggles •Automatonic harmonics •Malfunction •Steamboat shenanigans
I really love how insightful you are. You've given real thought into what these songs are about and give me new perspective with many of them. Icon For Hire would be a great band to check out. I'm not sure off the top of my head if all these songs have videos but: Now You Know Make A Move Too Loud Demons Hollow Blindside Under the Knife Supposed to Be Get Well I think these are some good ones to start with.
Could you do a "trying to stan Daughter?" She's a really underrated artist who makes absolutely beautiful music and I'd think you'd like her :) Some song recommendations: Candles, Youth, Medicine, Burn It Down, Numbers, Landfill, and No Care
I love how every time he reacts to a new artist he ends up crying... Bill you okay buddy? Need a hug?
Let's all meet up and give him a giant group hug ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉﾞ❀~ 😂
@@The_Little_Leaf YES PLZ that sounds like a lovely idea
@@freddiethefreak too many people lol, he'll get crushed.
@@praise_worthy_boundary1992 but crushed with love
This will definitely make him cry more😂😂😂💕
You should really listen to her older stuff: Ghost, Colors, Hold Me Down, Hurricane, Strange Love, basically everything from BADLANDS because that's the music that made me love her
Probably my favorite of her albums
Agreed. I loved that album, it's how I found her
LL C especially Gasoline!
I legit thought he was gonna.....
LL C thisssss yes! there’s not one song from that album i don’t absolutely adore
"Sit in the Tub with a bathbomb and acknowledge how your feeling." Bill's most iconic 2020 quote yet
lol i came to your great comment when it had 66 likes 6 hours ago :)
A motto
Thank you for the likes I just really love Bill's videos.
That's literally what I'm doing while watching this haha
The way it's phrased makes me think there's no water, just a person and a bathbomb in the tub
Bill @ Nightmare: YES QUEEN
Me: ..... yup, he gets it. Hes one of us.
Without Me is about her ex g-eazy who basically almost made it a game to cheat on her in every single state he toured in. So yeah, very personal
Oh crap! That's insanely awful! Wow ok now I might cry like Bill
Without Me still sucks but I can't blame her for writing it about that
Jette L i like the song, I feel like it’s more of a slap in the face for him though. I wonder how he reacted honestly
@@hannie8896 yeah in the collab she did with post malone she sang "sold (idk the exact number) copies of a break up note" and I feel like in this situation she definitely has the right to be petty about it
Jette L for real lol 😂
nightmare was released when the whole abortion issue happened and everyone halsey spoke to was like “oh my god you released this at the perfect time!” and she was like lol whatever time it was released there would be some issue with woman’s rights at the moment
i do but please do tell, this is the first i have ever heard of it.
lol the fact she's still right
Hello from 2 years later and welp
@@wtimmins yikes :(
Halsey said Graveyard (the song itself) is about abusive relationships.
At the Grammy Museum she said it's about a situation where she literally could've gotten herself killed because she loved that person so much that she risked her safety for the person, hence "I would've followed all the way to the graveyard/sometimes the warning signs can feel like butterflies/you look the door you're drunk at the steering wheel"
Been there, done that! So sooo crazy to think what love can do to you. Very blessed to have gotten away and I understand this Song so sooooo much xxxxxx #halseyforever
With who though? 😑
MareLoves probably g greasy or a relationship she had before she really got big. she dated someone who was an addict and was very abusive/controlling. he was older than her too, I think she was about 17 and he was in his 20s? she talks about him in her 2018 women’s march speech
Bill really drinks his respect women jucie
We stan 👏
We love a supportive king 👏👏👏
Stan
Bill: worries about nightmare bc of the title
Halsey: starts singing
Bill: *processing*
Halsey: continues screaming
Bill: OH SHI-
I'm so happy you finally did Halsey! Other songs you should listen to: Ghost, New Americana, Gasoline, Strangers (ft. Lauren Jauregui), Sorry, Clementine, SUGA's Interlude (ft. SUGA of BTS)
Please react to Suga's interlude
And gasoline
Yes! Gasoline for sure
Colors too! That music video is awesomely terrible
Yesssss definy
finally / beautiful stranger is about dominic/yungblud! they’re ex’s now, but its ashley’s first love song and it really says something about their relationship! i love it, and thank you for reacting to her
well...that's going to make next week's video a little more interesting haha
Hope you don’t mind I ask this but has she said that? And if so, where? This is not hate, just wondering but wouldnt surprise me if it was and would love her explaining it❤️
Filofix she hasen’t straight out said it’s about yungblud, but she has said it’s her first love song. however, when they dated she’s talked about the situations in the song - for example like how they met. and the stories from what they’ve told us before, and what the lyrics in the song says matches; and therefore we know it’s about dominic
Jonnisforever it also says ‘your eyes so crystal green’ which references Dom’s eyes x
bruh I always just kinda assumed and took it as fact it was about Dom, but never really THOUGHT thought about the lyrics til just now and wow, the song just got so much more bittersweet and sad,,,,, like I’ve known since it dropped but idk, it feels like the realization just set in 😂😭😭
I love Halsey and I love Nightmare. As a female bartender, I've worked hard nights, double shifts, been talked to like garbage, working till 6am, and then had multiple men tell me I should smile more. Give us a smile love, you'd look attractive if you smiled. So when I first heard that lyric I was like YES! I'm exhausted and not here to be your eye candy, don't tell me what to feel, I don't owe you shit! That's just one lyric of hers! 😂 I thought you might be interested in how that song feels as a woman because you may not of had experiences like that. Love your videos! Xxx
Please Bill, if you could do a "Trying to stan: Hozier" he's such an amazing artist and he weaves magic with his music.
Yesssss.
Hozier has divine masculine male energy. I would love for you to listen for yourself. Gorgeous sound.
Hozier 💕
Yes, and please include "Arsonist's Lullaby"
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
i love halsey's music.
trying to stan nf would be great, he has some really personal and hard hitting lyrics
Therapy Session would be so interesting to see Bill's reaction to (ok that's not English)
Yessssss
I’d love to see Mansion, The Search, Therapy Session, How Could You Leave Us, Paralyzed, and Change
Yesyesyes!!
Oh heck yeah, I live for people discovering NF, and Bill's reaction would be perfect. He's gonna cry a lot though... which works for me.
Agree! Why would you leave us also
Oh my gods. Your commentary on Nightmare about how she is just yelling but not yelling at you. THANK YOU. YOU GET IT. So many men take the anger of women personally when they don't need to. And the ones that should aren't necessarily listening to us women anyway.
I love your reactions, you should do a trying to stan Hayley Kiyoko!
Lesbian queen
Erin Chanez OH GOD YES OUR LESBIAN LORD AND SAVIOR HALEY KIYOKO PLS BILLL
Absolutely seconded!!!
YESSSSS
YESSSSS OUR LESBIAN JESUS
"No Bill, it's Huhluhsahahey." I let out the ugliest snort at that like wow
DO MORE OF HER OLD MUSIC PLEASE?! Specifically “ghost”, “hurricane”, “colors” and anything from her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom album
Yes bisexual vibes!
Same.
Also!Trying to stan NF!
Yes! NF is amazing!
You should’ve done that Halsey suga collab “Suga’s interlude”
Yes please
YESSSSSS
Trying to stan recommendations: YUNGBLUD (part 2)
Harry styles (especially his fine line album)
Twenty-one pilots (part 3)
Avi kaplan
Dodie clarke
If you want to Branch out a bit I recommend comedy musicians:
-bo Burnham
-tim minchin
Gwinnell Heald yeees Harry Styles!
YES BO BURNHAM!
Yessss Harry’s Music is just sooo good! ❤️
ABSOLUTEY BO BURNHAM
Jes! Harry Styles new album is bomb and not what you expect of a ex boy group guy.
You should definitely react to more Halsey
Trying to Stan: Lorde (Pure Heroine first), then Trying to Stan: Lorde (Melodrama)
He's done a bit of Lorde before but maybe he'll do more! 😊
YAAAS we need tryin to stan daughter
LORDE!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Honestly, she had potential to be Billie level or greater. Love her!
bill has done one Lorde video i hope he does a second ❤❤❤
Crz4wizard billie pales in comparision to lorde, do u even know who ella is
Yess more Halsey! A song that I absolutely love is “Sorry” from her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom album, and then hopeless ft. Cashmere cat, drive, ghost, gasoline, basically her entire “Badlands Deluxe Edition” album is a must listen
Ah yes, we're starting the new year well
trying to stan: daughter or NF
nf!!!!!!!
yes to both, honestly
YES DAUGHTER
OMG it's amazing that you love both of them toooooo xx
Absolutely yes please do NF. Preferably in this order:
1. When I Grow Up
2. Mansion
3. How Could You Leave Us?
4. Intro 3
5. The Search
6. Time
I'm gonna wait for him to listen to Hozier
I've set up camp already.
Please please please react to NF. Preferably in this specific order:
1. When I Grow Up
2. Mansion
3. How Could You Leave Us?
4. Intro 3
5. The Search
6. Time
I feel like therapy session is a must as well. Even more so than Time. Just my opinion though
@@torilynn2002 I agree that it's more important to the overall NF experience, but I think this lineup works best for Bill specifically.
Yeeeees
I really dig your expressive, unbridled delivery and thorough response to each track. Your delivery comes across as incredibly sincere and I find myself hanging on through the entire video to hear your reflections. Great series dude!
Your camera looks really good!!!! HELL YES FOR HALSEY!!!! Without Me is about her ex G Eazy.
Dude this was great! I highly recommend “girl in red” for you to listen to next, her songs are such bops, I would suggest “bad idea!” and “dead girl in the pool” if you do want to check her out!
I love girl in red!! Specifically 'we fell in love in October'
Sameee
God I'm never disappointed by your reactions. Thank you very much
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND I LEGIT G A S P E D WHEN I SAW WHO YOU WERE REACTING TO
I hope you can do ‘trying to Stan NF’ because his songs are incredible and very lyric based and overall really emotional and deep.
Loved the vid♥️
OK SO PLEASE REACT TO MORE HALSEY SHE HAS SOME OTHER AWESOME SONGS
I’d probably recommend songs like colors, control, castle and gasoline
And if you’re looking for music that she’s done with other people, there’s 11 minute which is a song with her, YUNGBLUD and Travis Barker. She also did a recent collab with a member of BTS (as you seemed to like Boy with Luv), she collaborated with SUGA for her recent album and the song is LITERALLY called “SUGA’s Interlude”
Midnight_Demons he should react to manic when it releases! ❤️
And Ghost! Love that song!
Welcome to Halsey, dude. She’s one of my favorite artists. I’m 53 and totally stan everything about her. Both her albums are stellar and I eagerly await her third album in couple weeks. Please do more Halsey. Her lyrics are worth delving into. She’s really gifted in that regard. Have you checked out Lorde? She’s another real deal bonafide ARTIST. I would love to hear your take on her.
Wait till he hears 11 minutes with her and Youngblood
Listen to her old stuff too, she's amazing
I recomend Hurricane, Gasoline and Ghost (that last one is the song for which she was discovered)
Halsey is amazing and i hope your break gave you everything you needed💚💚
Trying to Stan: Harry Styles 🙃
no
@@jenn535 why
@@loch00018 he's a zionist and anti-black
@@jenn535 uhh... wtfdym?
@@nadiirly that he's a zionist?
out of curiosity, would you consider doing an in order reaction/stan of her album trilogy?
it goes:
1. hopeless fountain kingdom (Album Trailer)
2. now or never
3. bad at love
4. sorry
5. alone
6. strangers.
i think you would really enjoy the story!
Try to stan Melanie Martinez K-12? Love your reactions btw!!♡♡♡
Hold Me Down, Hurricane, Gasoline, and Sorry are my absolute faves by her.
You can compare Halsey to P!nk, they met and were both very excited to meet each other. So yeah!
That makes me so happy! :')
@@thethirdbill you should do a part 2 and react to other songs, she just put out a song it's called you should be sad.
Love from Italy
Badlands era
Here we come.
I love how protective you are of every person who is in a bad situation. Even in a music video where it’s fake. You’re the protective, sensitive man we all need! 😻
Trying to stan - AJR
Weak, sober up, and burn the house down are their most popular ones. I also come hang out, don’t throw out my legos, next up forever, and finale are ones I also recommend
I hope there’s a part two reaction to Halsey where Bill not only reacts to you should be sad, but also to some of her older music rather than her newer stuff!
Omg I’m so glad you decided to do halsey! I can’t wait to watch this when I get home!!!❤️❤️ *Edit:* I loved your reaction and commentary! I’m excited that you got to experience her music and complex narratives. She writes such beautiful lyrics that actually have meaning to her and the way she tells stories about her life/character is just so damn beautiful she’s one of my favorite artists and I’m just happy that you got to listen to her!! I would *LOVE* a part 2(or 3 or 4 honestly just review all of her music lol) with some of her old music from Badlands, Room 93 or honestly any of her music in general! Bad at love is actually part of a story (similar to Pan!c’s 3 part story) from the album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom. But thank you for this video!!❤️
I feel like Halsey is a really polarizing figure on the internet but I'm not keyed into the Twittosphere well enough to know why. Anyway my point is it's nice to see someone with a clean slate react to her and come away with positive reactions because to me, I've felt similar to what you've said, that in her music and persona there's a lot of grappling with big and important issues and it's a vulnerable position but she does it really well. If you liked these songs I feel like you would also appreciate the music from her first album as well, I think it's actually even a little blunter in tone than her second album (maybe a kind of "putting it 100% out there on the line, no holds barred" debut bravado - especially 'Hold Me Down' and 'Control' in my opinion, musically as well as lyrically.)
thank you so much for making this video🥺🥺
i love seeing people appreciate halsey, especially for her writing,
if you do a pt2 listen to ‘sorry’ and some of her older stuff from 2015
im so glad this popped up on my recommended and i had the brain cells to click on it !! halsey is one of my favorite artists and im so glad when people find her music and really just connect with it and see it as more than the stuff that's on the radio all the time
i know a lot of people have said this but i highly recommend listening to her room 93 ep (the first ever album/ep she put out) and her badlands album. also listen to hopeless fountain kingdom while you're at it... pretty much just listen to everything lol
also since you love analyzing the music, lyrics, and videos i would recommend looking up some theories on the connections between her songs. each of her albums tell a story and the music videos (and even performances) all work together to showcase that story as well. there's even been connections between her room 93 ep and her upcoming album manic!! so like it's insane how much detail she puts into absolutely everything
also! i would recommend looking into her as a person bc she's incredible... she's super open about being biracial, bisexual, having mental health issues, and other health issues women face like endometriosis and miscarriages. she's also an amazing painter and drawer... she's done art for some of her single covers and has even painted upside down during her snl performance! she also wrote an amazingly emotional poem that she read during the women's march a couple years ago.
anyways!! imma stop now, i just love her a lot and im so glad you enjoyed her music!!
oh also i subscribed and im super pumped to watch your past videos
I literally run to my computer when I saw the notification on my phone. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Bill saying yes bisexual vibes, I felt that
Hozier, Fall Out Boy, or NF would be absolutely amazing to see you experience!
Bill is tearing up in the thumbnail. A sign of a good video. And a call for tissues.
I have a tattoo inspired by her song Hurricane that she released on her first EP, Room 93. There’s a lot to Stan here, Bill! She’s an exceptional artist and creator!
She has such a big place in my heart, I saw her a week ago for the first time and I cried instantly. She sounds exactly the same live and has incredible presence 🖤🖤 I'm so glad you love her
Welcome back! Please do more Halsey, the deluxe edition of her debut album Badlands is great! Also, please, I beg of you, do an episode for Hozier. His music is transcendent.
you're the only man (i've come across) that has reacted to Nightmare and actually understood the lyrics and the meaning behind it and been able to express your thoughts on this topic
AH!!! I've been waiting for this!!!! Thank you so much for doing this
I love how this guy is not afraid to be honest about how he feels. I love watching him discover music that I already love and getting to see all of the feelings I have for that music play out in his face. It’s very refreshing hearing him put words to the feelings I have when I listen to these songs.
please do more trying to stan yungblud!
Finally/ Beautiful Stranger was about Dom (Yungblud). I really enjoyed your reaction, I applaud you.
I’m happy you had a chance to have a break, you work so hard and you deserve it x
So glad you got to experience Halsey lol! Part 2? Her older stuff is also really good such as ghost ( there are two music videos one where she is with a woman and one with a man. We love a bi queen), new Americana, her albums hopeless fountain kingdom, and badlands, and her song strangers ft. Lauren Jauregui.
Next vid you should either do Sorry, Gasoline, New Americana, Castle, or Colors. Great reaction to someone i rly love in music
I cried like a baby the first time I heard finally/beautiful stranger, mainly because I instantly knew who the song was about and was so happy it was such a beautiful and honest song for a beautiful person. I loved your reaction to it ❤ I would love to know if that was her original idea for the video, being such a visual person,if she had an Idea when she first wrote it and then the relationship changed and she changed it.. I still love it as it's the happy/sad, not totally knowing what you should feel when you listen to it ,that she does so well. We're seeing her in Manchester in march, with my 8year old.. it's her first arena experience after her first festival last summer and an intimate gig with Yungblud in November. She's well ant truly hooked! I'm glad you liked Halsey. Thanks for reacting.
I’d be super interested to see you react to Hozier! He’s an amazing artist and singer. I’d recommend Movement and Cherry Wine
All of it really. His self titled album and Wasteland, baby (maybe Movement or Shrike). Just anything.
after seeing this I want a whole video reacting to manic from you!!! there are so many genres on that album and it still blends so well together!
Also I don’t know if you knew, but both badlands (room 93, her debut EP is part of badlands) and hopeless fountain kingdom are concept albums. HFK is a retelling of Romeo + Juliet with lots of influences from the 1996 film. If you watch the album trailers and then the music videos in order you’ll see a storyline! same if you just listen to the albums in full!
Trying to stan: AJR (their album neotheatre) would be so great! I never see anyone talk about them but their music, that album especially, is so so good, I recommend listening to the entire album probably in order but definitely starting with Next up Forever and finishing with Finale !! 🥺
You make me love artists even more when you explain and interpret their music, the way you see things makes it even better, you're amazing 💕
FUNFACT!!!- that last song (beautiful stranger) was about YUNGBLUD!!! They dated for awhile 💗
No lie, the first time I heard Finally // Beautiful Stranger, I also sobbed. It felt very cathartic. I love Halsey. I’m definitely gonna go see her on her Manic World Tour. She’s so talented.
if there's a part two you should react to clementine, sorry, ghost, colors, new americana, alone and some live performances (nightmare at the armory, graveyard at the amas)
I love how open and kinda loose you are about new music and artists. You speak your mind and say what you felt which can be very hard 💜💜💜
Trying To Stan: St Vincent
Trying To Stan: Bjork
Trying To Stan: Janelle Monae
Eve 100%
Eve he’s gonna fucking love Django Jane
Yes to Janelle Monae! Especially Tightrope
Monae I completely agree with! St. V is hit and miss... And Bjork is mostly miss lately tbh
JANELLE MONAE OMFG OMFG OMDG OMFG OMFG
This was so good, you listened to every song I wanted you to :D I love hearing your input, however I just want to say that songs like"Nightmare" and "Queendom" by Aurora are for you too. 50% of the point of feminism is men so just bc you can't relate to some of the lyrics doesn't mean the song can't empower you in some way. Like Aurora said, "you have a home in my queendom". :)
Hey bill, I’ve been watching for a loooong time now and I think it’d be pretty cool if you reacted to the neighbourhood, Melanie Martinez, or EDEN
Yes Melanie Martinez omgggggg
he said he wont be reacting to mel because of the accusations. I think he doesnt want to trigger anyone
@@schokodrinkfurimmer8230 Nooo T_T
@@thatdangfangirl2766 yeah it's rlly sad :/
Eden yes, Martinez no
I love how you respond to new music and how you actually allow yourself to absorb deeper meanings and not what's just on the surface. I personally would like to see what you think of the artist NF, he's a rapper with a christian background and has very intense music. Most people liken him to eminem. I would recommend the songs: "Therapy Session", "Mansion", "Paralyzed", or "Time".
Disclaimer though, his music is definitely emotionally heavy.
Trying to Stan: Alec Benjamin
I think you'll like him so much
Thatd be amazing!!
Please!!!
He will LOVE our gay icon Steve
3:09 did you mean seven evil exes? If so, nice Scott Pilgrim reference, I love that movie (I haven’t read the graphic novel though).
Omg please do trying to stan Melanie Martinez!! I love her
U should do halsey again and watch her older ones! Like new Americana, ghost, and colors!
I wanna be in
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
The room where it happens
love this series and this episode. whenever bill cries, i cry.
Trying to Stan: mother mother
I love Halsey! All of her songs are amazing, but here's a few of my favorite:
Clementine
Walls could talk
Suga's interlude
Young God
Ghost
Drive
Control
I loved this video! I would love to see your reactions to her live performances of Without Me and Nightmare, Without Me from the BBMAs and Nightmare from The Voice, I believe.
Also I just want to say I love how much you analyze the music. You don't just listen and go oh this is nice, you look for the message and you really put a lot of thought into interpretation of it. And there is obviously nothing wrong with a fun song that doesn't necessarily have a deep meaning or a strong message but I love that when one does you really sit there and deconstruct it and tell us your thought process and how you get to what you think the song is about. Also the fact that you are so willing to share your emotions openly, I really love that! It's one of the reasons I love watching your videos!
Also I offer many internet hugs because that way you can have hugs if you want them but also not have to be touched if you are not comfortable being touched by random strangers!
trying to stan: 5 seconds of summer??🥺🥺
yessss stan halsey with us! you should stan her older bops that are very synth alternative, like her music videos: ghost and colors
Trying to Stan: Alec Benjamin
Hell YESSSS!!
Yes pleaseeeeeeeee
Please please please do this, Bill!
Yessss
YES THAT WOULD BE GREAT
It would be so awesome if you did a trying to Stan Of Monsters and Men!
I think you should try to stan Hozier soon. The man is an amazing storytelling musician.
I love that you included Nightmare and absolutely got it. So many dudes don't. I don't know if she's already on your list but I would LOVE to see you try to stan Melanie Martinez.
TRY TO STAN KFLAY
she's not that well known but I love her so much
You’ve been one of my favorite reactors for a long time now and I’m so happy you finally reacted to my queen please do a part 2 of trying to stan Halsey
Try to Stan Steam powered Giraffe!
Good songs to react-
•I don’t have a name for it.
•Honeybee
•Brass Goggles
•Automatonic harmonics
•Malfunction
•Steamboat shenanigans
OMG YES!!!
I really love how insightful you are. You've given real thought into what these songs are about and give me new perspective with many of them.
Icon For Hire would be a great band to check out. I'm not sure off the top of my head if all these songs have videos but:
Now You Know
Make A Move
Too Loud
Demons
Hollow
Blindside
Under the Knife
Supposed to Be
Get Well
I think these are some good ones to start with.
Could you do a "trying to stan Daughter?" She's a really underrated artist who makes absolutely beautiful music and I'd think you'd like her :) Some song recommendations: Candles, Youth, Medicine, Burn It Down, Numbers, Landfill, and No Care
peachy pastel “Love” is my favorite. Most heartbreaking song ever
I love that Finally//Beautiful stranger is about when she met YUNGBLUD 🖤