Halsey

Finally gave this a listen, it's good! I have no idea where Halsey fits into the music world. Is she a pop star? Did this come and go with nary a ripple?

The singles didn’t do so well. But her older songs are still on the radio all the time.

I was intrigued by the prospect of it - NIN-produced pop - but aspects of the record came off as Downward Spiral cosplay, without pushing hard enough in any one direction, pop or abrasive textures

Turns out that Manic is a better record

Nevertheless, it's fun that Kevin Martin and Jack Dangers had elements on a Halsey record

i think this is her best record. i struggled to make it through her previous ones

i love this album it is awesome

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, September 1, 2021 9:45 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I heard Honey played on pop radio at one point. I liked the fact that it didn't sound like anything else around it, more like something that would have been on KROQ in the 90s, something almost Cure-like about it, but I imagine that weighed against it getting playlisted like, say, Graveyard, which was played on infinite loop.

Has there ever been such a humiliating, unequivocal, withdrawal-from-Kabul-level surrender than the shift from the last album to the new single?

i dunno...i don't like "Lucky," was never a big fan of the Britney song either, but it seems like the Britney track held significance for her and this was still kind of a personal choice as much as anything else she's made. i love If I Can't Have Love way more than her other stuff, but it always seemed like a one-off, i'd be happy if "So Good" was an indication of her future music.

eh this sounds very much like your typical a&r'd early 2020s "let's make sure to remind aging millennial listeners of at least 3 different songs they liked as kids so it can hopefully be a radio hit" concoction

also not fond of that britney song

or any halsey songs except for "without me" aka the generic smash that probably would have been a hit for anyone

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omw to the halsey nyc listening event to do an observational study on stan dynamics

— hailey (@hahlys) September 8, 2024

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it gets worse actually because there is video evidence of this happening https://t.co/xIvUz9qpvu pic.twitter.com/idPF62l24S

— hailey (@hahlys) September 13, 2024