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Halsey fan brought onstage says Badlands was her 'lesbian awakening'
Halsey singing at a concert; Halsey fan Summer Victoria on stage at Halsey's concert.
This superfan attended the concert with her girlfriend of two years.
It's not every day that a person gets to meet the celebrity who was their lesbian awakening, but that's exactly what happened during a recent Halsey concert.
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During a recent concert in Hollywood, FL, Halsey invited a fan from the audience onto the stage to pick which "sad song" they were going to sing. The young woman invited by Halsey was attending the concert with her girlfriend.
"Halsey, Badlands was my lesbian awakening," the young fan said as the audience cheered. "And now I'm here with my girlfriend, she surprised me with this trip for our two-year anniversary."
"Two years!? Good for you guys!" Halsey replied.
The fan, who identified herself as a film production designer named Summer Victoria, then revealed which song off Badlands she wanted Halsey to sing.
"There's one song that got me through the hardest time of my life, and that was 'Hurricane," the fan explained.
Halsey replied, "This is your moment, baby!"
"I gotta go with 'Hurricane,'" Victoria said.
Halsey's debut studio album, Badlands, was released in 2015, when the singer was just 21 years old. It debuted at no. 2 on the Billboard charts and spawned the singles "Ghost," "New Americana," "Colors," and "Castle."
On their second album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, Halsey teamed up with fellow bisexual singer Lauren Jauregui for the queer love anthem "Strangers."
Early in her career, Halsey was labeled "tri-bi" in reference to her being biracial, bisexual, and bipolar. However, the singer wasn't a fan of the label.
"I fucking hate it, the idea that something like that would be trivialized down to a fucking hashtag," Halsey told Rolling Stone in 2016. "I mean, there’s a ton of biphobia — people refuse to accept bisexuality as an actual sexuality. And I’m biracial, but also white-passing, which is a unique perspective."
They continued, "So these kids say, like, 'Oh, fucking tri-bi Halsey! She’ll never miss an opportunity to talk about it!' I want to sit them down like a mom and go, 'Six months ago you were begging for an artist that would talk about this shit!' But then I do, and you say, ‘Oh, not her. Someone else.'"
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
