![]() ![]() ![]() Although their past records have sat firmly within the electro-pop sphere, the musician has long resisted the pop star label: “If you’re a female alternative artist and you do anything that’s even slightly pop leaning, it’s condemning,” they said in an interview with the Zach Sang Show in 2017. Like contemporaries Billie Eilish and Grimes, Halsey isn’t afraid of moving into the grittier side of the sound spectrum, communicating abject body horror, confusion and joy through thrashing industrial fuzz. Working with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (who, together, have worked on film soundtracks – including The Social Network – since 2010), the sonic influence of the pair is hugely evident across the record’s 13 songs. Implicitly or explicitly, this experience winds its way into Halsey’s new record, which is their most expansive and ambitious yet. I hope the feeling lasts,” they wrote on Instagram. Pregnancy had changed their relationship with gender: “I thought pregnancy would give me very strong, binary feelings about ‘womanhood’ but truly it has levelled my perception of gender entirely. Credit:Universal MusicĮarlier this year, the musician announced their pregnancy via social media, and shortly afterwards shared that they wished to use she/they pronouns. Halsey’s previous albums have sat firmly in the electro-pop sphere but the musician has long resisted the pop star label. ![]()
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