
Originally, the only ballad on Haiz , Steinfeld recorded a revamped version featuring Joe Jonas and his band DNCE as the follow-up single to ' Love Myself. Even though their relationship has descended to a 'rock bottom' place, they appear unable to let go and move on. Hailee Steinfeld sings here about two people who shouldn't be together.
None of her gigs in the decade since have dripped with quite so much prestige, but appearances in films like the critically acclaimed coming-of-age flick Edge Of Seventeen, the reportedly enjoyable Transformers offshoot Bumblebee, and the Pitch Perfect franchise helped establish her as one of the most promising and charismatic young actors in Hollywood. At just 14 years old, Steinfeld scored an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Coen brothers’ 2010 True Grit remake. 1/20.Hailee Steinfeld was precocious from the start.
Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, and Catherine Keener in the upcoming John Carney film 'Can a Song Save Your Life' '. The song has been called an 'electro-kissed anthem' with 'shimmering production' and 'loved-up lyrics', with Steinfeld singing 'Our loves enough, transcending us. She has pulled off the transition from child actor to legit movie star.Song by American singer Hailee Steinfeld, released as a single from the soundtrack of the film Bumblebee on November 2, 2018.
Judging strictly by her discography, she would not seem to be the kind of persona who stans can build an entire identity around worshipping. Onscreen, she bursts with personality, but her songs tend to err on the side of manufactured product built for Top 40 radio and YA rom-com syncs. Even now, as she finally readies her first full-length project, she’s piecing it out in a series of EPs, starting with a five-track installment this Friday pointedly titled Half Written Story.Although Steinfeld has some good songs to her name, it’s always been hard to say whether she brings anything to the table musically. Steinfeld’s not an A-list pop artist by any stretch, but she’s scored enough hits that at this point she’s one of the biggest pop stars left who hasn’t yet released a debut album. This venture has been more successful than your average Hollywood star’s musical vanity project. For the past five years, starting with her debut EP Haiz, she’s maintained a music career alongside her acting work.

Or maybe she just needed a constant collaborator like Koz — perhaps best known for his work on Dua Lipa singles like “IDGAF” and “Physical” — who helmed more than half of Half Written Story and served as its executive producer. It’s possible that a distinct musical personality would have emerged sooner if she had released more than one song at a time these past five years. The MGK collab in particular resembles a Lonely Island parody of decade-old pop-rap duets like B.o.B and Hayley Williams’ “Airplanes” and Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love The Way You Lie” its chorus features Steinfeld passionately belting out the hypermodern meme-cum-cliché “If you can’t take at me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.”Despite a title that practically tees up zingers about music that needed more time in the oven, Half Written Story presents a slightly more fully-formed vision of Steinfeld the singer.
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“Man Up,” meanwhile, stays firmly planted in the hip-hop age, with Steinfeld even attempting something between rapping and monologue: “My brother hates you, my mother hates you, my father and sister too/ Wait, I don’t even have a sister, but if I did, she’d hate you.” Like so much of Steinfeld’s discography so far, it’s corny, but she sells it.While hopscotching around pop music history, Half Written Story sticks to a consistent theme of heartbreak, resilience, and self-care. ( UPDATE: Hilariously, I guess it’s a different David Stewart?) “End This (L.O.V.E.)” flips the swooning standard “L.O.V.E.” into a minor-key lament about romantic discord in the shadow of 808s & Heartbreak: “L is for the way you lie to me.” Although not directly interpolating an old hit, the lovelorn waltz “Your Name Hurts” evokes music so retro Steinfeld’s grandparents probably slow-danced to it at prom, as filtered through R&B sounds her parents might have enjoyed circa Y2K. Opening track “I Love You’s” is a shiny modern update of Annie Lennox’s “No More I Love You’s” with none other than Lennox’s Eurythmics bandmate Dave Stewart behind the boards.
YoungBoy also had a #2 album with Still Flexin, Still Steppin, so both his rate of production and the public’s rate of consumption is insane right now.Last week’s #1 album, DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby, falls to #2 Billboard notes that this is the first time two consecutive #1 albums have featured the word Baby in the title. Per Billboard, it’s the quickest turnaround between #1 albums since BTS pulled off a three-month turnaround in 2018. The rapper’s 38 Baby 2 tallied 67,000 equivalent album units to debut atop the Billboard 200 less than seven months after first topping the chart with AI YoungBoy 2. Either she’s finally digging deep and coming up with something real, or she’s an even better actress than I realized.YoungBoy Never Broke Again has his second #1 album. “I don’t hate you,” she admits, “Though I couldn’t if I wanted to/ I just hate all the hurt that you put me through/ And that I blame myself for letting you.” Arriving directly after her proclamation of hate on “Man Up,” it coheres into a believably messy portrait of love’s aftermath. “I fell asleep with the makeup still all on my skin,” she confesses on “I Love You’s,” while on “Your Name Hurts” she attests, “This half-written story is horror at best/ The kind where the hero still dies in the end.” From there she moves on to a pair of scathing tell-offs before going full tearjerker on piano ballad “Wrong Direction,” the project’s closing track and lead single.
It’s Scott’s third #1 hit following 2018’s slow-climbing smash “Sicko Mode” and 2019’s “Highest In The Room,” which also debuted atop the chart. “The Scotts,” the Travis Scott and Kid Cudi duet debuted during that Fortnite concert, debuts at #1 this week. Travis Scott’s Astroworld shoots back up to #9 thanks to excitement surrounding his Fortnite in-game concert Astronomical, while Megan Thee Stallion’s Suga is back to #10 owing largely to the popularity of its breakout hit “Savage” and its new Beyoncé-assisted remix.Speaking of Travis Scott’s Fortnite concert and the Beyoncé remix of “Savage,” both figure prominently on this week’s Hot 100 singles chart. Thus, the bulk of the top 10 comprises longstanding hits from Lil Uzi Vert, the Weeknd, Lil Baby, Post Malone, Bad Bunny, and Roddy Ricch.
Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber have a new charity single, “Stuck With U,” coming Friday. Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are expecting a baby. The rest of the top 10 comprises Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now,” Post Malone’s “Circles,” Justin Bieber and Quavo’s “Intentions,” and Harry Styles’ “Adore You.” POP FIVEI don’t like what this says about me, but I expected more from a Halsey/Marshmello collaboration. Expect that one to also take an upward turn next week thanks to last Friday’s arrival of a remix featuring Nicki Minaj. Similarly, Beyoncé is not credited on the chart this week because the original version boasted the majority of the song’s streams, whereas next week the remix will undoubtedly constitute the bulk of the “Savage” streams.After Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” at #5 comes Doja Cat’s “Say So,” down one spot to #6. The Beyoncé remix debuted last Wednesday, just one day before the end of the tracking week, so it’ll be interesting to see whether the song can keep building off that momentum next week.
