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Halsey in The Advocate Magazine March 2020
Halsey does with verve, as evidenced by her albums that have all followed a narrative through line. Halsey in The Advocate Magazine March 2020
And Manic, which came out in late January, tells a fully realized story just like Badlands (2015) and Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017) did.
Badlands, she says, is the "post-apocalyptic story of a girl who is rebelling against the nature of the society that she lived in." For Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, she reached
into timeless narratives like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the Orpheus myth.
"Something as simple as an argument with your partner—you can hyperbolize that in your head to this gunfight, bloodshed, war between two houses." But Manic was different for the
' The concept is just me." The decision to make an autobiographical album came after a point in her career when she'd faced scrutiny about her identity.
After 2017's "Strangers" (with Lauren Jauregui, who is also bisexual)—in which both women sing to female love interests—Halsey was accused of"queer-baiting." (Previous artists who've flirted with Sapphic imagery, like
Nicki Minaj and Jesse J, have soured fans a bit.) It's still rare to hear a chart-topping song about love or heartbreak in which a woman sings about another woman.
People were pissed." By the time Halsey set out to create Manic, which includes the award-winning "Without You" and the more recently released "Graveyard" and "Clementine," she'd been burned emo rock or whatever it is—areas of subcultures that haven't been necessarily all-inclusive to people of color," she says, adding that Hendrix is an unlikely hero and one of the As for her mom's influence, Halsey developed a love of some of music's most iconic women, including Patti Smith, Alanis Morrisette, and Ani DiFranco, from the songs her mother played.
Her mom also kept poetry books and novels around the house that depicted a breadth of sexual and gender identity, which Halsey says helped her learn about embracing sexuality. When she came out, she had her mom's support. But if I can help them feel like I'm a valid and supportive representation of them, and ifthat makes them feel safe and that makes them feel included, then, of course I'm going to do everything in my power to contribute to that." Still, while coming out to her supportive parent went smoothly, Halsey faced backlash at school for Which I think is, again, a deeper added benefit for me in terms of my own self-validity—knowing these experiences have coincided since the dawn of my sexual awareness." Halsey is a easy conversationalist and covers alot of ground in a short amount of time, from early sexual experiences to her writing process to how Patti Smith's memoir, Just Kids—about Smith's life in New York with artist Robert Mapplethorpe—"jumped off the page" at her in terms of relatability.
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