On ManicTheAlbum, halsey performs a musical biopsy, opening up her chest and examining its contents with surgical precision. Read our full review of the LP below
, the 25-year-old pop superstar has repeatedly made clear that her existence as a modern pop star is not defined by the men or women around her -- she contains multitudes.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,to rebuke the very idea of the MPDG, you know she's speaking on behalf of Halsey. "I'm just a f--ked up girl who's lookin' for my own piece of mind," Kate Winslet's character spits. "Don't assign me yours.
The cathartic rage exhibited on the singer’s feminist firebrand anthem “Nightmare” remains largely absent from, instead replaced in spots by muzzled frustration. “I Hate Everybody” has the sound of a potentially cutesy love song, while the lyrics see the singer bitterly swearing off love through gritted teeth. “Killing Boys,” meanwhile, sees the star calmly but firmly vowing revenge against a cheating ex as a subdued synth-pop beat wanders through the background.
In lieu of rage, the songs are instead indicative of a quieter sadness as she searches the contents of herself for answers to the question of why, after all of her success, she still feels this way. In that sense, Halsey's songwriting on this album feels more focused than ever. On "3am," the star's self-awareness of her self-destruction becomes apparent when she wails "I really need a mirror that'll come along and tell me that I'm fine.
It’s fitting, then, that on an album focused on exploring the singer’s innermost turmoil, her songs featuring collaborators are deemed "interludes." When Dominic Fike pops in to encourage Halsey to break up with her lover, or when BTS' Suga shows up to spit his rapid-fire bars about the nature of dreams, they do so in the form of short, sweet offerings — this is not their story, after all.
On album closer and standout “929,” Halsey finally lets it all out. Laying syncopated rhythms against a steady melody, she lists off her struggles with quitting smoking, living up to her fans expectations, purchasing real estate, losing friends, falling out of love and everything else in between before making her own stunning conclusion: “I'm still looking for my salvation.
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