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Unlike the one that many figures of the current pop scene traveled, the path of rise to fame that Ashley Frangipane traveled was based on the old school of playing in small places in acoustic format, to earn a few pesos and pay off her debts, while she
changed her name by Halsey
, with which she began to become known.
Then came the stage of SoundCloud, the first contract for an EP published in 2014, a much commented presentation in the
South by Southwest
, the very good repercussion before the release of their debut album, Badlands, more tours, collaborations with one of the Fifth Harmony, until reaching its first number one, in 2017, with
Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
.
Thus, step by step, and alternating more mainstream or more indies chapters, Halsey arrived at the launch of her third album,
Manic
, between collaborations with bands like Bring Me the Horizon, the very successful BTS and Marshmello, and the confession that the songs had been composed during an episode of bipolar disorder.
Together with Halsey, the BTS achieved a new record, with the song "Boy With Luv".
Photo Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP
A door that opens only by choice
However, this door open to intimacy, Halsey prefers to use it to her own liking and pleasure and not to the record companies that publish her music, where
the news of her pregnancy seems to have caused a change in mood
that had an impact on the bond that she already had. International pop star keeps up with her executives.
And this time, Halsey again opened a door to her more personal profile, but not to tell details of her pregnancy, which came to a happy ending with the birth of her son Ender Ridley Aydin, on July 14, but how that process that must have been a period of his life to treasure turned into a prolonged bad time.
In that sense, the singer, declared non-binary, exposed her experience as a pregnant person in the music industry, targeting the industry professionals who lowered her price as an artist.
And he
spoke out against the executives of the record company
-Capitol Records- who wanted to strip it of its autonomy, demanding an irrational amount of personal information.
Halsey is a champion of a free sexuality.
Photo: Press
During a chat with Apple Music 1 host Zane Rowe, Halsey noted, "You have to call the CEO of X, Y, Z and say,
'Hey, hi. I'm just calling to let you know: I'm pregnant. You will find out on Instagram. I wanted to tell you personally. Everything is the same here, don't worry. My personal choice is not going to affect your profitability or your productivity or your assembly line '
"
At the same time, the artist wondered in which world one should call to warn of having a baby.
And the answer was overwhelming:
"I have to call you because it affects your product."
Also against the press
But
Halsey not only took aim at the businessmen
, but also dedicated a portion of her criticism to the press, which she accused of treating her more like a "pregnant person" than as "an artist."
"There were publications (when) we were going out and trying to establish what would be the covers of magazines based on the release of the album, posed things like,
'Yeah, but what will be pregnant? Because we do not want to
do a cover maternity '
. "
"And I was like,
'It's not a maternity cover. It's about my album; I happen to be pregnant
.
'
And they again:
'No, it's a pregnant cover.'
And I:
'So, I can't talk about my album?'
"
Pregnancy as a concept
In this context, Halsey also spoke about the concept of her fourth album,
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
- which she had previously described as
"a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth"
- telling Rowe that everything "happened by accident".
"I
was not trying to make a political record
or to make a record that drowned in its own depth. I was writing about how I feel, and it turns out that I was experiencing something that is very complicated," said the singer during the talk, that reproduces the publication
NME
.
Halsey cautioned that pregnancy is often misread by those who have not experienced it, explaining that "for some women it's a dream, and
for some people it's a fucking nightmare
. This is a nightmare."
"And
that's the thing that no one else talks about, right; it's the pain and the blood, the disease, the fear
, the fact that it is without a doubt the most dangerous condition the human body can experience, and it has been. for millennia. It kills people, and to this day it still kills people who do not have access to proper medical care, "he said.
The artist further explained that due to her previous miscarriage and her battles with reproductive health problems like endometriosis, critics expected her to be more "grateful" for her pregnancy.
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And she elaborated on the question: "I think everyone who has heard me long for motherhood, and yearn for this for so long,
would have expected me to write the album that was full of gratitude
."
Something that would have been incongruous, if
the participation of the NIne Inch Nails Trent Reznor
in the role of producer
was taken as a starting point
.
But instead, as he admitted, he was like, "No,
this shit is so scary, and so horrible, and my body is changing
, and I have no control over anything, and I finally have this thing that I want, so I wake up. every day with the fear that I will lose her. "
"Everybody says,
'Aren't you living a dream?'
I say,
'No, actually, I have nightmares about waking up in a pool of my own blood. That's how it is.'
"Halsey concluded.
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
was
released last Friday, August 27, along with a film of the same name.
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