❛ 100 letters ❜ ↷ halsey ( slowed + reverb )

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❝ Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. ❞
― Stephen King

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— [♡] ; about the song
ㅤㅤ“100 Letters” is a pop power ballad describing the story of two lovers who try to work out their failing relationship. the song uses greek mythology, like the legend of King Midas, to develop the narrative.

Halsey said that “100 Letters” was the first song she wrote off the album, stating it was similar to the prologue of Romeo + Juliet where the narrator spoils the ending of the story:
❝ its like me saying, hey we break up and i don't give him anything but here's the album. ❞
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in June 2017 tweet, she named 100 letters among her top 10 songs lyrically.
on the Zach Sang Show, Halsey talked about her on-and-off relationship with Norwegian producer Lido in the context of hopeless fountain kingdom and its parallels to the story of Romeo and Juliet:
❝ in [100 letters], i tell the story of the relationship from start to finish. i give away the ending, like the prologue. [...] and then i went, 'oh my god, i love Romeo and Juliet because i feel like i'm living it. i'm going through this relationship where i feel like a version of myself-and a version of himself-are dying for the sake of wanting to make our love work.' [...] and then i started trying to write other music and i realized, 'i don't know what to write about. i don't know who i am.' [...] i had a message on Badlands, and then in starting this new record and going through this breakup, i realized how much of my identity i had given to my partner. ❞