Is Halsey's album good? I've been considering giving her a chance. People whose music taste I respect seem to like her. I'm not expecting some kind of outstanding lyricism or anything from what I've heard of New Americana.
There weren’t any featured guests on the track list for 25, but Bruno Mars did contribute behind the scenes on the song “All I Ask,” which i-D says sounds like “every piece of Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler diva shtick at the wall to immense, overwhelming effect.” “I’ve never sung so hard in me whole life,” she says of the track, which the magazine reports also has an epic key change. (Watch out, “Love on Top.”) “Can you imagine the fun me and Bruno had making that?””
Is Halsey's album good? I've been considering giving her a chance. People whose music taste I respect seem to like her. I'm not expecting some kind of outstanding lyricism or anything from what I've heard of New Americana.
It's not good, no, but she's hardly the second coming of Meghan Trainor, either. There are occasional glimmers of competence.