11 years ago today, Halsey released 'New Americana.' Serving as the second single from her debut album Badlands, though the track actually began life a year earlier — she'd quietly uploaded an original version to SoundCloud in March 2014, letting it build organic buzz before its official rollout. Halsey penned it with Larzz Principato and Kalkutta, while Norwegian producer Lido, who also executive-produced the whole album, shaped its electropop sound, which folds in an interpolation of Mtume's 1983 classic "Juicy Fruit" and layered, Pink Floyd-esque vocal harmonies on the chorus. The song was built as satire — a critique of pop culture dressed up as a massive pop anthem — with lines pairing "legal marijuana" against Biggie and Nirvana to capture a generation raised on cultural contradictions and shifting norms around things like same-sex marriage. Halsey has said she found it maddening when listeners took the lyrics at face value rather than recognizing the irony, and years later she...