Photo: Courtesy Halsey Instagram
At the end ofManictrack “3am,” a song that chronicles some of the doubts and insecurities that follow a night of drinking, Halsey, 25, includes an actual voicemail she received from 42-year-old musician.
“Your best song is the song that’s currently on the radio. How many people can say that? That their best song was the one that’s currently about to be a massive hit. It’s already a hit,” Mayer says in the message, without any reference to what he’s referring to. “It’s just gonna get more massive. How many people can say it? Not very many. Congratulations!”
Of course, followingManic’s release on Thursday, fans had plenty of questions — including what that voicemail was all about.
“It’s @JohnMayer ! Haha,” she wrote, before going on to share that the voicemail was left following the success of her 2018 songWithout Me, which reached No. 1 on theBillboardHot 100.
“Hepredicted the successof without me before I had faith in myself,” she explained.
The singer went on to share that like the song’s name implies, the track waswritten after a very late “night out.”
“I came home and was ringing everyone in my contacts cause I was dying to talk to literally ANYONE so I wouldn’t have to sit with my own thoughts. I realized ‘hmm this is…bad.’ and wrote a song about it! Haha,” she explained.
Over the years, Halsey and Mayer have made it clear that despite the rumors that crop up from time to time based on their exchanges on social media,they’re just friends.
“You know, for being my not-boyfriend you really do know me so well,” quipped Halsey, who is currently dating actorEvan Peters.
John Mayer and Halsey.Courtesy John Mayer Instagram Live
During an appearance on SiriusXM’sThe Morning Mash Upthat November, Halsey explained that over the years, Mayer has given her “a lot of really good adviceabout staying true to myself.”
“The advice that he’s given me has been really organic and it’s been a lot about the art and the integrity and staying true to that because he’s managed to maintain his integrity while still having a tremendous amount of commercial success, which is so admirable,” she continued, before joking: “And then he’s like, ‘Screw it. I’m gonna go play with The Dead.’”
Halsey also opened up about how their friendship developed in an August 2017 interview withBillboard.
source: people.com
