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Halsey (Music)
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Influenced by: The Cure, Alanis Morissette, Nirvana, The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, Taylor Swift, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, David Bowie, Katy Perry, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, blink-182, The Cranberries, Panic! at the Disco, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, The WeekndAshley Nicolette Frangipanenote pronounced "FRAN-jih-PAW-nee", like the flower (born September 29, 1994), better known by her stage name Halseynote both an anagram of her first name and derived from Halsey Street in Brooklyn, where she spent much of her teen years, is an American singer-songwriter. Her sound has been generally classified as electropop, alternative pop, and/or R&B, and is notable for its consistent conceptual overtones.Halsey played several instruments in her youth including the violin, viola, cello and guitar, and as she is biracial, having a white mother and black fathernote she is of African-American, Hungarian, Irish and Italian ancestry in total, she credited her parents' contrasting music tastes (Nirvana, Creed, Alanis Morissette, etc. from her mom; The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, etc. from her dad) with the diverse influences she takes for her work.Although she began gathering an online following through her music and content in 2012 (predominantly through Tumblr), it was Halsey's 2014 single "Ghost" that would become her first breakout hit, generating massive buzz after being uploaded to SoundCloud. Among the several record labels that immediately came knocking, she ultimately signed with Astralwerks as she felt they gave her the most creative control. She co-headlined with Young Rising Sons in 2015, and then performed as an opening act for Imagine Dragons and The Weeknd. Her rapid rise to success led her to a solo tour in September 2015. In 2016, she collaborated with The Chainsmokers on their song "Closer", which became a #1 hit almost immediately after it was released.Halsey is known for her candid attitude and online presence, liberal sociopolitical views, advocacy for causes such as LGBT rightsnote as she is openly bisexual and has dated women in the past, reproductive rights and mental health awarenessnote as she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a suicide attempt at age 17, and raw, provocative lyrical style.In March 2021, Halsey announced she uses they/them along with she/her pronouns. She is currently in a relationship with Turkish-American screenwriter Alev Aydin; they have a son together, Ender, born July 2021. | |
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And Then John Was a Zombie | |
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And Then John Was a Zombie: The end of "Lighthouse". The narrator sings that she'll always have a piece of the devil who stranded her in the water inside of her, and embraces her new desire to lure in other people like she was lured. | |
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Likes Older Men | |
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Likes Older Men: One of the plot twists in the music video for Halsey's "Colors". | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "New Americana" is about, in her words, a "generation unafraid of diversity". And "Castle", the first song on her debut album, addresses her irritation with the Double Standard expectations living in a patriarchal social mandates. | |
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Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest | |
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Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: In "Alone", Luna returns to the Hopeless Fountain Kingdom to find Solis at a party but is heartbroken and confused to find that he has already found a new lover, with long blue hair similar to Luna previous to her transformation. | |
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Revenge Ballad | |
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Revenge Ballad: "Castle", is, according to Word of God, about Revenge Against Men. | |
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Vice City | |
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Vice City: "Those are the Badlands. We don't go there." | |
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Dye or Die | |
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Dye or Die: In "Now Or Never", Luna has to change her appearance so her attackers won't find her. So she chops off her long blue hair and dyes it blonde. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The titular "Badlands" in her debut album. She describes the place as an urban-sprawl dystopia, representative of a negative mental state. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Oblivious to Love: In "Strangers", both narrators feel more for the other than just a friends-with-benefits type of relationship, but neither realizes her feelings are shared. | |
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Secret Relationship | |
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Secret Relationship: In "Bad at Love." Deconstructed in that the relationship didn't work out, and Halsey has stated in an interview that the secrecy was what led to it falling apart. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The "New Americana" video features her leading one. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: All of her major releases. Room 93, her debut EP, is themed around the strange, pocket-universe feel of hotel rooms. BADLANDS is about a Vegas-gothic metaphor for her negative mental state. hopeless fountain kingdom is a play on Romeo and Juliet, taking specific influence from Baz Luhrmann's interpretation. Manic is about her struggles with bipolar disorder. If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power is about the positives and negatives of pregnancy and childbirth. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: "Strange Love" features ten uses in just over four minutes, emphasized by Halsey's forceful delivery of the song. "Don't play" manages to fit five uses in just the chorus alone. | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather | |
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Referenced in "Ghost". | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning | |
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The Cover Changes the Meaning: Her rendition of "I Walk the Line", altering a country song about being faithful in a relationship to an unsettling alternative tune implying the speaker is stuck with a particular lover, even addicted to them. | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: According to Word of God, the main theme of MANIC is that she's found herself falling into this role in her real life relationships, and wants somebody who won't expect her to constantly entertain them and disrupt their lives. | |
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Important Haircut | |
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Important Haircut: At the end of the "Now or Never" video. She chops off her long blue locks into a shirt blonde spiked haircut. | |
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Album Closure | |
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Album Closure: MANIC finishes with "929," a simple autobiographical track where Halsey honestly addresses where she is in life and her various feelings about it. | |
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Significant Anagram | |
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Significant Anagram: Her stage name is her real given name with a couple of letters switched around. | |
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Gratuitous Japanese | |
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Gratuitous Japanese: The Spoken Word opening to the "Ghost" video, roughly translating to "As I look back at the past together with her, suddenly she starts to disappear. Maybe she never really existed." | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: Her character in "If I Can't Have Love I Want Power", Queen Lila, is treated very badly by the king, her husband, to the point that she ends up poisoning him to escape. | |
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Melismatic Vocals | |
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Melismatic Vocals: "Everything is blu-uuu-uuuuu-uu-e". | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: "Sorry" is a particularly bleak instance of this trope and possibly the bleakest thing Halsey committed to tape; the song is an apology for how she can't make her significant other (or anyone) happy, because her mental struggles and insecurities always get in the way. | |
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Sequel Song | |
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Sequel Song: "Colors, Pt. II". | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender | |
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The Cover Changes the Gender: "Eastside" is a duet between Halsey and Khalid, with Khalid singing the first verse and Halsey the second. Halsey performed the song solo on Saturday Night Live, singing both verses and implicitly changing the relationship referenced in the first verse from a heterosexual one to a lesbian one. | |
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Heroic Seductress | |
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Heroic Seductress: The narrator in "Hurricane". | |
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Two-Person Pool Party | |
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Two-Person Pool Party: In the "Ghost" video. | |
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Descent into Addiction | |
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Descent into Addiction: Not her, but a former lover mentioned in "Bad At Love": | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: "Be Kind" is about this type of relationship, with Halsey reassuring her lover that she will be there for them. | |
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Lecherous Licking | |
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Lecherous Licking: From the smirk she's wearing at the end of this clip, she knows what she's doing. | |
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Alone in a Crowd | |
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Alone in a Crowd: "Alone" echoes this, along with feelings of inadequacy that come with being people's idol. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Without Me" is one of these directed at someone that Halsey helped who then ditched her for fame and glory at the first opportunity they got, reminding them Halsey is the one who "put [them] up there" and asking if they're lonely pretending that they can live without her. "You Should Be Sad" is directed at an unnamed ex-lover, calling him faithless, manipulative, and incapable of selflessly loving another, which is why she's glad that she chose not to have a baby with him and dumped him instead. "I'm Not Mad" is a song directed at an ex for how they mistreated Halsey all the while wishing them false positive messages. | |
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Sour Outside, Sad Inside | |
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Sour Outside, Sad Inside: The narrator of "I HATE EVERYBODY" admits to using a cynical attitude to mask her loneliness and desire for love. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: "Hurricane". She references this same line in "Gasoline". Used again in "Control": The "Hurricane" example comes back in the Spoken Word narration beginning the "New Americana" video. Used in "Heaven in Hiding": Her verse on "Die For Me" by Post Malone and Future is pretty much this as well, with lines like "Sold 15 million copies of a breakup note," "I don't play anymore, I went through your phone/ And called the girls in your DMs and took all them home," and "Grew into a savage, and that's why they gave this verse to me." | |
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In Love with Love | |
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In Love with Love: The narrator of "I HATE EVERYBODY." | |
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Deconstructed Trope | |
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Deconstructed in that the relationship didn't work out, and Halsey has stated in an interview that the secrecy was what led to it falling apart. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: The fan-favorite lyric in "Colors": Hopeless Fountain Kingdom's first track, The Prologue, has Halsey speaking the entirety of Shakespeare's Prologue for Romeo and Juliet. In "929", she reveals in the spoken monologue of the song that the song is titled after her birthday. "Good Mourning" has Halsey's little brother, Dante, speaking the entire intro. | |
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Destructive Romance | |
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Destructive Romance: "Without Me" and "Graveyard" detail of an unhealthy relationship between the protagonist and her lover. Luckily, she realizes what a bad place she's in and how irreparable the relationship with said toxic person is and breaks it off to start looking after herself. | |
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Get Back in the Closet | |
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Get Back in the Closet: She spoke about the phenomenon from firsthand experience after releasing two music videos for her song "Ghost". The first contained her in a physically intimate relationship with a man, and was barely described by the press as anything beyond a "love story". The second contained a romance with relatively less intimacy shown, but replaced Halsey's co-lead with a woman. This video was far more controversial and was even described by some as pornographic; Halsey attributed this to the particular connotation same-sex female relationships have when portrayed in media. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: In "Graveyard", followed with a Gasp!. | |
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Screw Yourself | |
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Screw Yourself: Not in a literal sense, but the girl she's making out with in the "Ghost" video is intentionally made up to look like her-same clothes, same hair, similar proportions, to emphasize the confusion of what she represents. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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The "Hurricane" example comes back in the Spoken Word narration beginning the "New Americana" video. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Implied in "Gasoline". | |
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places | |
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: The subject of "Bad at Love," which describes several failed relationships with unsuitable people. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: In "If I Can't Have Love I Want Power" she isn't shy at all in portraying herself sexually, which includes her wearing very low-cut gowns along with showing full frontal nudity on multiple occasions (once while heavily pregnant), since its themes explore the Madonna-Whore Complex and her character is rebelling against convention that as a mother she has to be non-sexual. The uncensored version of the album's cover also features her with one breast exposed while she's cradling her baby (this however harkens back to the painting featuring Mary with Jesus which inspired the story). | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex: "If I Can't Have Love I Want Power" explores this idea, since it was inspired from traditional depictions of the original Madonna, Mary mother of Jesus, who's usually portrayed as non-sexual (the Virgin, after all), with her character struggling against this expectation as it's indicated that she wants to remain a sexual being while becoming a mother, but the royal court is scandalized by this. It's also implied much of their opposition may come from her strongly implied attraction to her handmaidens. | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule | |
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Catholic School Girls Rule: A downplayed example in her "Colors" music video. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: For the soundtrack to The Huntsman: Winter's War, "Castle" was given a new, more cinematic arrangement. To tie in with Diablo IV a new version of "Lilith" was released featuring SUGA from BTS on vocals. | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: "Ghost" is about a relationship in which one partner is no longer emotionally invested. "Sorry" is a I Want My Beloved to Be Happy-type version sung by someone apologizing to a lover they treated badly as they're leaving. "killing boys" is about an unfaithful ex-boyfriend. "You Should Be Sad" is one of the "I'm so glad you're gone" variety. | |
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Double Standard | |
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And "Castle", the first song on her debut album, addresses her irritation with the Double Standard expectations living in a patriarchal social mandates. | |
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Alter-Ego Acting | |
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Alter-Ego Acting: A minor case. Her stage persona is simply a condensed, dramatized version of her. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: In "Young God": Twice in "Gasoline": | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The music video for "Ghost" distinctly resembles Lost in Translation (2003), from the setting to the bob wig the singer wears throughout most of the video. The music video for "Colors" was filmed in the Murder House from American Horror Story. Anyone who has seen the series knows that the house is the main character of its season. Well, King Midas put his hands on me again... from "100 Letters" In "Without Me", she quotes the "You don't have to say what you did, I already know" line from "Cry Me A River" by Justin Timberlake and even matches the cadence of it. In "Killing Boys", she quotes a famous exchange from Jennifer's Body; In "Killing Boys", she warns an unfaithful lover/former friend: "Then I stop 'cause I don't wanna Uma Thurman your ass." In "Alanis' Interlude", Halsey puts a spin on John Mayer’s 2002 hit “Your Body Is A Wonderland�, altering an iconic “straight� love song into an ode to her bisexuality with the lyrics "Your pussy is a wonderland". "Ashley" ends with a sample from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with some dialogue from Kate Winslet's character Clementine... which is also the name of the next song on the album. | |
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Dominatrix | |
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Dominatrix: In the music video for "Nightmare", one of her outfits is a latex fetish costume. | |
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Wandering Walk of Madness | |
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Wandering Walk of Madness: "Control" is narrated by a manic, possibly mentally ill person who describes walking around their house all night long. | |
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Secretly-Gay Activity | |
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Secretly Gay Activity: Alluded to in "Alanis' Interlude" where Halsey and another maintain relations in secret: | |
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Intercourse with You | |
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Intercourse with You: To be expected, as a lot of her songs are about sex. | |
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Sex for Solace | |
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Sex for Solace: "Strangers" is about a rebound romance she had while trying to get over a long-term boyfriend. Ironically, the lyrics make it clear that both girls feel more for the other than just this, but neither will admit it because they believe the other doesn't care. On the same album, "100 Letters" contains the line "I find myself alone at night, unless I'm having sex." | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole Album Reference: hopeless fountain kingdom, to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: Given that her debut album focused on a fictional city meant to represent her former negative headspace, it's not surprising that it features a couple of these, most notably "Control". | |
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Dead Sparks | |
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Dead Sparks: "Lie". | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: The song "Drive" fades and then continues into the next song "Coming Down". | |
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Hard-Drinking Party Girl | |
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Hard-Drinking Party Girl: "Luna", the protagonist of hopeless fountain kingdom. | |
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Fanservice Extra | |
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Fanservice Extra: "If I Can't Have Love I Want Power" features her character's handmaidens undressing to bathe her, with them showing full frontal nudity. All of them are attractive young women-most don't appear in other scenes. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In the spoken-word opening to "929," Halsey talks with her producer and claims she was actually born at 9:29 AM on 9/29. He expresses disbelief and says he wants to see her birth certificate. At the end of the song, we hear Halsey talking again. Turns out, she checked her birth certificate, and she was born at 9:26. | |
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Stacy's Mom | |
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Stacy's Mom: The music video for Halsey's "Colors" centers around Halsey's character getting along with Tyler Posey's character and his parents and its seems everything is fine. Until the reveal shows that she's actually in love with Posey's father, which he discovers through her Polaroids and reacts to with disgust. | |
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