Halsey & Lauren Jauregui's Upcoming Duet Is 'A Love Song For The LGBT Community'

Halsey is hoping to make the LGBT community proud with "Strangers," her upcoming duet with Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui off hopeless fountain kingdom, which is said to be a same-sex love song.

In a new interview with Zach Sang, the 22-year-old pop star discussed the forthcoming track, admitting that she particularly recruited Jauregui to keep the song's narrative true to form. "I was thinking to myself, if I want this song to be believable, it needs to be real," Halsey said. "So I’m not going to put a girl on the song to sing who’s straight. I’m just not going to do it. So I reached out to Lauren and she came in and she cut the vocal and it sounds awesome."

Halsey went on to gush about how her vocals compliment the 5H star's vocal chops. "Our voices sound really cool together because we both have really raspy voices," she explained. "Mine's a little more delicate than hers. Hers is like really powerful and big and raspy, and mine is kind of like light and raspy."

Even though pop music doesn't rep same-sex love frequently, Halsey is looking to shake things up a bit. "I just love that Lauren and I are two women who have a mainstream pop presence doing a love song for the LGBT community," she said, adding, "It's unheard of. It’s very rare to see it from a female perspective....At no point in the song does it make a point to say that it's a gay love song. It’s just a love song that happens to use same-sex pronouns."

hopeless fountain kingdom drops on June 2.

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