Halsey Gets Shockingly Candid On Her New Album Manic: Listen

Halsey's new album Manic is here, and no one is more relieved than the star herself. "The most torturing and cute wait of my life has come to an end," she tweeted upon the assignments release on Friday (January 17).


The wait, thankfully, was worth it. Manic capitalizes on Halsey's chameleonic approach to pop music, while delving deep into her relationships, her experience with bipolar disorder, and her constant toggle between confidence and self-doubt. Unlike her sophomore record, 2017's Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, which was set in a Shakespearean dystopia, Manic functions because the indoor of Halsey's (oftentimes messy) mind. And what it a reveal it is.


Fans had already heard about half of Manic before its arrival — there were the previously released songs "Graveyard," "Without Me," "Clementine," "You Should Be Sad," "Finally // Cute Stranger," and "Suga's Interlude." However the brand new tracks are where Halsey really bares her soul. She confesses that she's "got no self-esteem" on "Still Learning," fantasizes about revenge on "Killing Men and whines out on the all-caps "I HATE EVERYBODY" — a lyric that she finishes with the thought, "Then why can't I go house without somebody?"


Yet it's closing track "929," named soon after Halsey's birthday, that may be the most shockingly candid of all. Over twinkling chords, she specifics the anxiety, isolation, heartbreak, nicotine withdrawal, and hair loss that come and also being one of the most prominent pop stars on Earth. "I remember the names of each and every kid I've met / Nevertheless I forget half the people who I've gotten in bed," she sings, later admitting that she's "still looking for salvation."


Manic also reunites Halsey with BTS member Suga, and features added collaborations with Dominic Fike and Alanis Morissette. On "Alanis' Interlude," the two girls twist John Mayer's "Your Body Is a Wonderland" into something more playful and explicit: "Your pussy is a wonderland."


Stream Manic in its entirety below.