On Thursday, Halsey joined First We Feast's Hot Ones star-studded roster with a fiery interview. Alongside host Sean Evans, Halsey put her strength to the test as she made her way through 10 chicken wings, each hotter than the one before. With every wing came an equally scorching question, which allowed the "Without Me" singer to cover everything from her new album Manic to the famous names that make up her inner circle.
On the topic of her third studio album, Halsey opened up about the decision to include pal John Mayer's voicemail as an outro to her song "3am,"explaining that the placement made the perfect segue into her hit single "Without Me."
"I actually kind of did it selfishly," she admitted. "It was for myself. The voicemail happens right before ‘Without Me' happens on the record and John called me the week it came out and was like, ‘This is gonna be your biggest song.' And I was like, ‘Sure.' And he was right. So, I owed it to him."
Halsey added, "So, the fact that after that track, we introduce ‘Without Me' with this little voice note, it gives this, like, I don't know—it gives the album this, like, a self-awareness. It gives it a personality, kind of."
Mayer isn't the only name that was dropped during the interview. As Halsey and Evans downed the next week, she gave her other musical pal Shawn Mendes, who is a Hot Ones alum, a shout-out."I love Shawn Mendes," she gushed. "Isn't he the sweetest guy? Sweetest kid. It's the Canadians, man. I don't know what they're doing over there."