I hate that I love "Closer". That's not just an opinion – that's what the song is about. On first listen, the Chainsmokers' duet with Halsey came off like the LiveJournal poetry of an ex-couple with no chemistry to speak of. The hooks were cheap, the rhymes obvious, the production basic.But by November last year, after twelve weeks atop the Billboard singles chart, it felt like everything. "Closer" is the ultimate "assholes have feelings too" song – the latest in a rich American artistic tradition from The Great Gatsby to Gossip Girl, Rebel Without a Cause to Lana Del Rey. Picture middle-class kids dressing up, and trust-fund brats dressing down, playing at hipsterdom. Their ennui is eternal.On "Closer", Halsey and Drew Taggart, the Chainsmokers' 26-year-old producer-cum-vocalist, aren't looking for sympathy. They don't know what they hate more: themselves or each other, their past hookups or their present loneliness… or is it the entire concept of romantic love? Unlike other digital breakup songs – "Hotline Bling", "On Hold" – "Closer" has no illusions that any of us are good people.Read more on Noisey