-We're here with Halsey, ladies and gentlemen.
[ Cheers and applause ] Whose new album "Manic"
went straight to number one.
That's got to feel good, huh? -Yeah, it's kind of insane.
-It's pretty fun, yeah. -Yeah.
I haven't even really processed this week yet, you know?
It's like you hold on to the record so long
while you're making it, and then everyone gets to have it,
and you're like, "Oh, yeah." -Yeah.
Tell me about the songwriting on this album and how --
Has it changed since your others?
-Kind of, yeah. Well, I wrote every song
on this album, which is --
I wrote every song on all of my albums.
But this one I just -- you know,
I wrote my first album when I was 19.
It was very coming of age. I lived in Brooklyn.
And I thought the world revolved around me.
As you do when you're 19 in Brooklyn.
And if not the world, I thought at least the L train did.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, I just -- you know, for me, it was kind of
about being honest with my audience in a way
that I never have gotten to before.
I think everyone's kind of gotten to know me a little bit
the past couple years.
It felt safe to kind of give them some insight on,
you know, Ashley, the girl from Jersey,
who's more than, you know, Halsey on stage
with the microphone and the theatrics and all that stuff.
-Yeah, that's the first track on the album.
-So, stripped it back. Yeah, yeah.
-I heard you on Sirius Hits 1,
which is one of my favorite stations.
I listen to it all the time. -Hosting, yeah.
-And you were hosting. It was so great.
I loved your voice, loved your stories.
And you told the story about jellies --
Do you know -- -Fish?
-No. Jelly sandals.
-Those shoes! -Jelly shoes.
-Jelly shoes. -Yeah.
-Oh, my God! Okay, oh.
All right. Aw.
-I know. You love them? -I did.
I had these purple jelly shoes when I was a little kid.
And I wore them every single day.
I literally wore the life out of them.
And I went to visit my grandmother's friends,
and they lived on a lagoon, like, on a --
they couldn't afford to live on a shore.
So they lived on a lagoon.
And I put my shoes on and ran out of the house.
I was sitting on the dock.
I was kicking my feet in the water,
and my shoes weren't strapped, so one of my purple jellies
fell off and sunk to the bottom of an 80-foot lagoon.
And I made my grandfather sit out there with a crab trap
and try to get it. [ Laughter ]
-Aw, I just -- well, I heard that story
and I loved it, and I went and I found something --
and I just -- -Oh, my God, stop.
-This is for you. -Oh, my God, stop.
-They're not purple but they're close.
These are blue jellies. [ Cheers and applause ]
I knew you'd like them. -Oh, my God!
[ Laughter ]
-I know you love them. Please.
You don't have to wear them.
Just take them with you and enjoy them.
They're jellies for you.
-My mom is going to cry when she sees this.
-Really? -"Jimmy was so nice
for getting you those shoes, Ashley!"
[ Laughter ]
-Uh... -Thank you!