Having previously promised an “all over the place” new album, Halsey has revealed exactly why that’s the case with the long-awaited announcement of her fifth LP.
A very insightful minute-and-a-half new trailer for the record – which goes by the name The Great Impersonator – hears Halsey reflect how, “When you get sick like that, you start thinking about ways it could have all been different” (Halsey was diagnosed with Lupus SLE and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder in 2022).
Sharing snippets of the different genres and eras to be heard on the follow-up to 2021’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, they then go on to ask in the video: “What if I debuted in the early 2000s, the ’90s, the ’80s, the ’70s… am I still Halsey every time, in every timeline?”
Halsey concludes that, “I spent half my life being someone else, I never stopped to ask myself: if it all ended right now, is this the person you’d be proud to leave behind? Is it even you?”
Watch the trailer below – and get ready for The Great Impersonator. Halsey hasn’t announced the release date, but their website teases that it’s coming in 2024 (with the month unfortunately blurred out for now).