Swan Song

I highly appreciate this thread, idk why everyone started shitting on her lyrics in the HM thread, she is fantastic. I don't think people realize how hard it is to write lyrics until they try it themselves. Its very difficult.
 
Raise Me Up:
"It's the voodoo Mississippi south
69 million stars
birds are flying out of my mouth
spirits creeping in my yard"
 
Ride 
"I hear the birds on the summer breeze
I drive fast
I am alone at midnight
Been trying hard to not get into trouble but
I've got a war in my mind"
 
All of National Anthem except the chorus
 
...among many,  many others.

Well every fucking time she disappears and we talk about her being lazy she does something and we end up praising ha again so we'll have to
 

Overall it's good and the lines where she mentions Jim are HEAVENLY

these trolls and their tropico avis
 

The cricket is for sure there. I didn't realize what you guys were talking about, but it's there and happens very quickly. 

I can't really get into Honeymoon, but TLY >>> 

The cricket is for sure there. I didn't realize what you guys were talking about, but it's there and happens very quickly. 

Random space sounds = chimes, people just have different ways of describing stuff, there's no extra layer you guys are missing. And yes, the space-y sounds play throughout the whole song.
 
and the cricket is very slight in HBTB and I never noticed it before someone pointing it out here.

Can you imagine a song titled Video Games to sound like a slow beautiful ballad ? I would never. One thing I learned from Lana is never judge a song by its name 

Y'all know you're moderated by a straight guy, don't ya?

Fans should actually support their favourite artist by buying the singles, streaming the music and buying the album when it comes out. That is our job. If you don't want to, there are some real try-hard gimmicks releasing music right now like Halsey. Go and support her if you want that big pop gesture moment and all the promo.

Her 'strategy' is to make music that she likes. She HAS ALL THE MONEY SHE NEEDS and has no interest in commercial success either. Drop this boring talk about her being a flop, she is where she wants to be as an artist and she's happy. Let it go. I personally think the tracks she's released so far are amazing, but that's a matter of opinion.

I'm not a big fan of Halsey. Her sound is pretty ahhn kinda generic. And New Americana? Sounds like something only white kids from the burbs will actually feel.
 
BUT!
 
I listened to her album with an open heart. Didnt enjoy the first half. LOOOOVED Colors (I did hear a live version previously).
 
Fav songs: Control, Young Gods, Colors, and Roman Holiday. Those songs... Specially Young Gods' lyrics, they were excellence.
In the end, her music is not for me. But she does create really good songs.

I thought a Halsey track sounded kinda Lana-ish before Halsey even sang it or was even a thing. #HipsterAlert

No seriously.

Following my own advice to "Keep an Eye on the 'Industry Players'", I follow a lot of music industry accounts on Soundcloud, including one for TaP mgmt, Lana's manager Ben Mawson's company that manages Lana as well as OTTR, TIWMUG, and G&M co-writer Tim Larcombe. So a couple years ago a set labeled "Tim Larcombe" popped up on there which included two instrumental tracks labeled "BT I" and "BT II", "BT" presumably standing for "backing track", which sounded vaguely Lana-esque so I saved them in case they ended up being used on an album. (I'm not exactly sure when they appeared. This archive.org snapshot indicates they were uploaded in October 2012, but I'm not sure they were public that early. I saved them in September 2013, but I know I found them awhile before I got around to ripping them.) Anyway, fast forward to this morning when I was listening to Halsey in order to defend her detractors from a more educated position when I listened to "Strange Love" and experienced some major déjà vu. I recognized the backing track instantly as "BT I". Sure enough, Tim Larcombe is indeed the producer of "Strange Love":


Listen to a copy of "BT I" (click on the Soundcloud link below it if the embedded stream doesn't work) that I uploaded as a private track in April 2014 to show to @@Monicker, who deemed it "pretty uninspired":





I don't think Halsey is a complete ripoff of Lana; she's extremely derivative of her contemporaries in general, one of them being Lana. Her voice doesn't sound at all like Lana. Only a couple songs sound like Lana ripoffs ("New Americana" being the most blatant well-documented example). But she occupies a lyrical universe that overlaps a lot with Lana's. However, being a documented fan of Lana with a song title the same as one of Lana's with a backing track possibly even written for Lana by a producer that worked with Lana and has the same management as Lana... I know some of that's probably coincidence, but it's all just a little too much. And it's easy to imagine her going, "OMG, you worked with Lana? OMG, Can I work with you? OMG, you've got a backing track you wrote for Lana that she didn't use? OMG, can I use it? Great! I'll name it after one of her unreleased tracks!" 

So I was listening to more of Halsey's songs in order to defend her detractors in status posts when I had a sudden sense of déjà vu and made an interesting connection to something that turned up years ago in my Lana sleuthing. I'll post about it soon, but to make proper sense of it I need to know a couple things that maybe some of you can help me with:
 
1. Have any "Badlands" instrumentals leaked? If so, could someone PM them to me? (And if not, but if someone has them, can you still PM them to me? I won't do anything with them, I'm only interested in them for comparison purposes, and can delete them when I'm done.)
2. Is there a complete and accurate list of co-writer/producer credits for "Badlands"? Wikipedia is definitely missing some information.
3. When was Halsey signed?
4. What is her relationship to TaP mgmt (Ben's company) and when did it start?

I actually really love Teddy Bear, especially the way it ends. I think it deserved a spot in the standard, over Mad Hatter or Milk and Cookies tbh

Y'all gonna end up screaming and running when MTWBT is another slow ballad, just like Hünnimüün and Terrence Loves Ü.

Bitch what mansion she can't even afford to decorate her Malibu beach house
 
 
 
 

I agree with your ranking. I love Haunting and I don't really know why. 

Such a shame we can't properly hear her vocals during the chorus because of the Weeknds basic castrato voice.
 
Would be a really cool song if it was a) a full lana song b) if they really would be "dueting" during the verses and have "equal rights" during the chorus.
The way it is, it's a nice song but all of Abel's parts sound either way boring or terrible.

I've been working on this review since the album leaked. Still not happy with it, but I've tweaked it all I can without losing my mind. I think I got most of my Halsey thoughts out... hopefully lol http://auralfixationreviews.blogspot.com/2015/08/badlands-halsey.html

like she says she doesn't care about being famous at all but when the tour money starts running low and she can't afford those private plane rides to carrozzini's italian love dungeon she gon wish she promoted

I finally managed to buy a physical copy of Crybaby (found mine in Newbury Comics). It's really wonderful, I recommend picking up a copy if you haven't. 

Upset someone beat me to banning it after this slander