meteoric rise metaphor for her mental torment. The album's track New Americana has become an anthem for some in the millennial generation, although the biracial singer has explained that the song is about society's embrace diversity and not wild partying, as some fans have interpreted it. "We are the New Americana High on legal marijuana Raised on Biggie and Nirvana We are the New Amer icana," she sings, referringboth to the country's changing drug laws and to deceased 1990s music legends. Another song off the album, Gaso- line, revolves more explicitly around Halsey's emotional condition as she sings of the bipolar disorder that keeps her stuck in bed. cred Halsey's success has been 1 ited in part to Apple's new Beats online radio station, whose influen tial DJ Zane Lowe has chosen New Americana as one of his favourite tracks. AFP