section_path: Career/2015–2018: Established actress and musical projects
section_name: 2015–2018: Established actress and musical projects
paragraph_text: 2015–2018: Established actress and musical projects
  
  In July 2015, Steinfeld and singer Shawn Mendes released an acoustic version of Mendes' single, " Stitches ". The following month, Steinfeld released her debut single, " Love Myself ", with Republic Records. The song garnered media attention for its empowering message as well as suggestive lyrics that led media outlets to dub the song an "ode to masturbation".
  
  Steinfeld's debut extended play, Haiz (a nickname used by her fans), was released in November 2015. Haiz was produced by Mattman & Robin and features co-writers Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter. The EP was released to generally positive reviews. In February 2016, Steinfeld released a remixed version of "Rock Bottom", as the second single featuring American funk pop band DNCE. Steinfeld's next single, " Starving ", was released in July 2016 to critical acclaim. The song is a collaboration with Grey featuring Zedd and became her biggest hit to date going platinum in Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States, while also going double platinum in Australia and triple platinum in Canada.
  
  In September 2016, Steinfeld played the lead role in The Edge of Seventeen, a coming-of-age comedy co-starring Blake Jenner, Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick, and written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. The film was released on November 18, 2016, to positive reviews; Steinfeld's performance was praised and earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
  
  In early 2017, Steinfeld featured on two songs: " Show You Love " and " Digital Love ". In March, Steinfeld was featured on American rapper Machine Gun Kelly 's single " At My Best " taken from his third studio album Bloom. A month later, Steinfeld released her next single " Most Girls ". The song received positive reviews and peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Steinfeld performed the song live for the first time at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards on April 29. A music video was released and received praise for its message of embracing individuality. Steinfeld also reprised her role as Emily Junk in Pitch Perfect 3 (2017). In September 2017, Steinfeld released the single " Let Me Go ", a collaboration with Swedish record producer Alesso featuring Florida Georgia Line and Andrew Watt, which reached number 14 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. That same month she featured on the remix of "Plot Twist" by Marc E. Bassy.
  
  On January 12, 2018, Steinfeld released " Capital Letters " for the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades Freed. The song was received with positive reviews and peaked at number 12 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. In March 2018, Steinfeld revealed that she is "wrapping up" work on her debut studio album. She performed at Indonesian Choice Awards in Jakarta, Indonesia the next month. Steinfeld then featured the song "Colour" with MNEK on June 1. In September, she was featured on Logic's album, YSIV, on the song "Ordinary Day" and on Chic 's album, It's About Time on the song "Dance with Me".
  
  In late 2018, Steinfeld starred in the Transformers spin-off film Bumblebee, and provided the voice of Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in the Academy Award -winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In November, her song " Back to Life " was released as a single from the Bumblebee soundtrack. That same month, hosted and performed at 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards in Bilbao, Spain.
  
  In July 2015, Steinfeld and singer Shawn Mendes released an acoustic version of Mendes' single, " Stitches ". The following month, Steinfeld released her debut single, " Love Myself ", with Republic Records. The song garnered media attention for its empowering message as well as suggestive lyrics that led media outlets to dub the song an "ode to masturbation".
  
  Steinfeld's debut extended play, Haiz (a nickname used by her fans), was released in November 2015. Haiz was produced by Mattman & Robin and features co-writers Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter. The EP was released to generally positive reviews. In February 2016, Steinfeld released a remixed version of "Rock Bottom", as the second single featuring American funk pop band DNCE. Steinfeld's next single, " Starving ", was released in July 2016 to critical acclaim. The song is a collaboration with Grey featuring Zedd and became her biggest hit to date going platinum in Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States, while also going double platinum in Australia and triple platinum in Canada.
  
  In September 2016, Steinfeld played the lead role in The Edge of Seventeen, a coming-of-age comedy co-starring Blake Jenner, Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick, and written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. The film was released on November 18, 2016, to positive reviews; Steinfeld's performance was praised and earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
  
  In early 2017, Steinfeld featured on two songs: " Show You Love " and " Digital Love ". In March, Steinfeld was featured on American rapper Machine Gun Kelly 's single " At My Best " taken from his third studio album Bloom. A month later, Steinfeld released her next single " Most Girls ". The song received positive reviews and peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Steinfeld performed the song live for the first time at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards on April 29. A music video was released and received praise for its message of embracing individuality. Steinfeld also reprised her role as Emily Junk in Pitch Perfect 3 (2017). In September 2017, Steinfeld released the single " Let Me Go ", a collaboration with Swedish record producer Alesso featuring Florida Georgia Line and Andrew Watt, which reached number 14 on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. That same month she featured on the remix of "Plot Twist" by Marc E. Bassy.
  
  On January 12, 2018, Steinfeld released " Capital Letters " for the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades Freed. The song was received with positive reviews and peaked at number 12 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. In March 2018, Steinfeld revealed that she is "wrapping up" work on her debut studio album. She performed at Indonesian Choice Awards in Jakarta, Indonesia the next month. Steinfeld then featured the song "Colour" with MNEK on June 1. In September, she was featured on Logic's album, YSIV, on the song "Ordinary Day" and on Chic 's album, It's About Time on the song "Dance with Me".
  
  In late 2018, Steinfeld starred in the Transformers spin-off film Bumblebee, and provided the voice of Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman in the Academy Award -winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In November, her song " Back to Life " was released as a single from the Bumblebee soundtrack. That same month, hosted and performed at 2018 MTV Europe Music Awards in Bilbao, Spain.