“I spent half my life trying to be someone else. I never stopped to ask myself: Is this the person you’re proud to leave behind? Is this really you?” she asks in the video.
Halsey will be a time traveler, existentialist, and question answerer. The great imitator On her upcoming album, the pop star on Tuesday released a trailer for The Great Impersonator, a “confessional concept album” that will see her travel through decades with her voice.
“I really thought this might be the last album I ever put out. When you get sick like that, you start thinking about ways things could have been different,” she says at the beginning of the video. “What if all of this hadn’t happened? Ashley, 18, becomes Halsey in 2014.”
The trailer cuts between clips of Halsey wearing different outfits over the decades. “What if I started my career in the early 2000s?” she asks before a verse from her song “Lucky,” which she sings in a Britney Spears-esque way.
“The ’90s? The ’80s? The ’70s?” Halsey asks as she goes through different songs from her album that cover musical genres from each era. Clips of her dressed as she would if she were in each decade are shown.
“Am I still Halsey every time? In every timeline? Do I still get sick? Do I become a mother? Am I happy? Alone? Have I done enough? Have I told the truth?” she says in the video.
The clip ends dramatically with Halsey asking herself, “I've spent half my life being someone else. And I've never stopped to ask myself: Is this the person you're proud to leave behind? Is this really you?”
Halsey marked her comeback with the release of “The End” in early June. The song describes her experience after being diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus and a rare disorder called T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder, and was intended as a message to her fans. She followed that song with the pop song “Lucky” and the dark rock song “Lonely Is the Muse.” The great imitator This is her fifth album after her album released in 2021. If I can't have love, I want power..
“For every Halsey pop song, there’s a Halsey rock song that goes with it,” she said of the new era earlier this summer. “I like to do both, so I feel like I shouldn’t have to choose.”
Halsey's first album, BadlandsIt was released in 2015. It was Followed by Desperate Fountain Kingdom In 2017, obsessed In 2020, and If I can't get love In 2021.
