![]() ![]() The backing track builds, small chimes come in to play, a ghost like choir before the chorus bliss. Halsey makes it clear that she is coming for the top. ![]() A simple beat pulls you into the lyrics and you just have to find out where this is all going. Very rarely am I hooked on an artist from the first song, and I don’t like to make a habit of comparing artists to one another, but I find myself in making an exception in both cases when it comes to “ Badlands.” It cannot be denied that Halsey is what you would get if Lorde and Lana Del Rey had a baby with dyed hair, (and that is in no way a bad thing!) and the opening track to badlands titled “ Castle” has such an eerie beginning to it that it you can’t help but be drawn in. I’m a sucker for good artwork on a record and there was a sort of dystopian-tumblr feel to the cover of Badlands so I gave it a listen, and wow. I had never heard the name Halsey, let alone her music but I believe I owe the discovery of her album to a Gerard Way tweet. ![]() No one I knew made previous mention of her, I had not yet experienced her “Room 93” EP, I was unfamiliar with her YouTube fame, and knew nothing of her relationships with Mattew Healey of the 1975, and the Norwegian Hip-Hop artist/producer Lido (former boyfriend and producer on “Castle” and “New Americana”). I did not discover Halsey until the day after her album released and it was completely by chance. The New-Jersey-native describes herself as “tri-bi”: biracial, bisexual, and bipolar…it doesn’t get much more American than that.
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