Throughout their career, Halsey has been lots of different things to different people.
She was the blue-haired 19-year-old singing about her Brooklyn boyfriend and lilac skies (‘Badlands’); the 23-year-old offering an elaborately stylised ‘Romeo and Juliet’ concept album (‘Hopeless Fountain Kingdom’); the 25-year-old navigating the blurring lines between Halsey, the art, and Ashley, the artist (Manic); then the 27-year-old delving into a Westwood-clad, Nine Inch Nails-produced world of rock and childbirth (‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’).
Her fifth record, The Great Impersonator, carries the imprint of those versions of her. Perhaps because it also took a step closer to ‘Ashley’, there are several links to ‘Manic’ in particular:…

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