"I'VE learned to pull confidence out of myself like I'm ****ing siphoning water from 10 feet beneath the soil," says 21-year-old Halsey, whose music is a haunting amalgamation of Biggie, Alanis and the Cure. When her dystopian LP Badlands charted as 2015's second-biggest debut by a female artist, bloggers put her in a box: She's biracial; she's bisexual; she's this; she's that. But labels hardly inhibit Halsey, who is wrapping a tour with the Weeknd. "My confidence grew from being intelligent, from being sexual," she says. "Put me on stage in front of 100,000 people if you want. You can't scare me."
Playboy announced in a statement today (November 17) that the alt-pop queen will appear in the magazine’s December issue as its “Becoming Attraction” feature. She won’t be nude, but insists in an accompanying quote that she’s no prude, either.
