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Halsey's next album isn't as close as she would like. The singer of "Closer" made a suggestion that her record label was stopping her from recording a new album because of the success of her most recent album, The Great Impersonator, which came out in October 2024.
In a Sept. 18 Apple Music interview, the singer told Zane Lowe, "I can't make an album right now—I'm not allowed to." "The Great Impersonator didn't perform as they had anticipated, so that's the reality."
In defense of the project, Halsey (real name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane) contended that it was impractical to anticipate that all of her compositions would have the same level of success as her 2020 album, Manic.
“If I'm being honest with you, the [Great Impersonator] album sold 100,000 fucking copies the first week,” she continued. “That's a pretty big first week, especially for an artist who hasn't had a hit in a long time. The tour is the highest-selling tour of my entire career, but they want Manic numbers from me… I can't do that every single time.”
The 30-year-old, who has a 4-year-old son named Ender Ridley Aydin with her ex-boyfriend Alev Aydin, continued by characterizing her past accomplishments as both a boon and a bane, feeling that her most recent releases were held to a higher standard "in the context of the kind of success that I've had previously," such as her hits appearing in the Billboard charts alongside Ariana Grande's songs.
She revealed, "That's the hardest part of being a pop star once." "Because, although I'm no longer one, I'm being compared to numbers and to people that I don't think are lateral."
The Great Impersonator, a concept album that drew inspiration from a variety of musical genres, featured numerous songs that seemed to be inspired by the singer's health issues, such as being diagnosed with lupus and a bone marrow disorder.
“Please, God, I don't want to be sick,” she sang on “Letter to God" (1983). ” “And I don't want to hurt, so get it over with quick.”
