HALSEY

5. ROOM 93

"The EP is called Room 93 because I've lived my life in hotel rooms the past year. I've formed romantic relationships and business relationships and friendships out of hotel rooms.

What's funny about them is it's like a stage setting, a fake place. It's not a real environment. The EP is a narrative about how in a hotel room, because of the forced intimacy, you can either be yourself for a bit or you can really be someone you're not. So it's about human relationships under the scope of that rat lab mentally, or security cam mentally.

There are also a few undertones and subplots. One of them is crossing gender barriers, because I talk about drugs and sex and things male artists can sing about and they're edgy and romantic and emotional, but as soon as a female artist talks about, it's like "shut up, that's unladylike. We don't want to hear that." But I don't care. That's what my life is like and that's what I've experienced and that's what it want to talk about."