Finally // Beautiful Stranger

## Music Video

"**Finally // Beautiful Stranger**" (stylized in sentence case; often abbreviated as "**Finally**") is a song performed by Halsey. It is a promotional single of her third album, *Manic*, on which it is featured as the tenth track. It was released on December 6, 2019 through Capitol Records. The song was released simultaneously with "Suga's Interlude".

## Background

The song was announced on December 3, 2019 through social media. In an Instagram livestream on December 3, 2019 Halsey announced that she was releasing two new songs and a music video on Friday December 6, 2019. On December 5, 2019 she revealed that those two songs are "Finally // Beautfiul Stranger" and "Suga's Interlude". Halsey described both songs as "very different [...] very dreamy stories."

When previewing the track for fans at a private event in London, Halsey stated that this is the "first love song [she has] ever written". She also talked more about the song via Apple Music and revealed that it's about YUNGBLUD:

"*I was like, ‘I need a wedding song. I need a first dance song.’ I wrote it at home in my living room at two in the morning when I was dating Dom. I’d been thinking about the night we met—I had told the story so many times and every time it got more romantic—and realized I’d never written a love song before, not one without a punchline. And it’s just a very nice, sweet song. At first, I was kind of like, eh… It wasn’t crazy enough. But I sent it to a couple friends, who said it was the best song I’d ever written. I was like, ‘What? It’s just me and a guitar.’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, that’s the point.’*"
—Halsey with Apple Music

## Critical reception

On January 13, 2020 *Rolling Stone* published an early review of the album and called this song the album's "moment of bliss" and compared it to "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

## Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Your eyes, so crisp, so green

Sour apple baby, but you taste so sweet

You got hips like Jagger and two left feet

And I wonder if you'd like to meet

Your voice is velvet through a telephone

You can come to mine, but both my roommates are home

Think I know a bar where they would leave us alone

And I wonder if you'd take it slow

[Pre-Chorus]

Oh, we're dancin' in my living room, and up come my fists

And I say I'm only playing, but the truth is this

That I've never seen a mouth that I would kill to kiss

And I'm terrified, but I can't resist

And I say

[Chorus]

Beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms and I know

That beautiful strangers only come along to do me wrong

And I hope, beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms

But I think it's finally, finally, finally, finally, finally safe

For me to fall

[Post-Chorus]

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

[Verse 2]

I grab your hand and then we run to the car

Singing in the street and playing air guitar

Stuck between my teeth just like a candy bar

And I wonder if it goes too far to say

I've never recognized a purer face

You stopped me in my tracks and put me right in my place

Used to think that loving meant a painful chase

But you're right here now and I think you'll stay

[Pre-Chorus]

Oh, we're dancin' in my living room, and up come my fists

And I say I'm only playing, but the truth is this

I've never seen a mouth that I would kill to kiss

And I'm terrified, but the truth is this

I say

[Chorus]

Beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms and I know

That beautiful strangers only come along to do me wrong

And I hope, beautiful stranger, here you are in my arms

And I think it's finally, finally, finally, finally, finally safe

For me to fall

[Post-Chorus]

Oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Yeah, I think it's finally, finally, finally, finally

## Trivia

* The lyric "Your eyes, so crisp, so green" was mistaken by many fans and online platforms as "Your eyes so crystal green". Halsey confirmed that the former is the correct lyric.

## References

1. ↑ *Twitter* - "January 17, 2020"
2. ↑ *IG Lives* - "Halsey | Instagram Live Stream | 3 December 2019"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Instagram* - "I’m releasing 2 songs from Manic on Friday. “Finally // beautiful stranger” and “SUGA’s Interlude”. Two very different songs. Two very dreamy stories."
4. ↑ *Youtube* - "Road To Manic Episode 2"
5. ↑ *Apple Music* - Manic by Halsey
6. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey - "“Halsey’s excellent new album Manic” - wow wow wow. Early review of the album is in and @robsheff can hear me loud and clear. Thank you @RollingStone! As for you guys, it’s in your hands in 4 days...
7. ↑ *Twitter* - @halsey - "It’s crisp! Like a crisp green apple. “So crisp, so green. Sour apple baby, but you taste so sweet.”"

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