Halsey is constant to deal with followers as her debut album, BADLANDS, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. On the heels of final week’s music video for fan-favorite monitor “Gasoline,” the singer has now dropped yet one more new music video, this time for “Drive.” Like “Gasoline” earlier than it, the “Drive” video continues the story that Halsey began a decade in the past with movies for songs like “New Americana” and “Castles.”
In 2015, Halsey started an prolonged, almost-dystopian narrative with the music video for “New Americana,” which noticed her main a bunch of rebels. Halsey’s character within the video has a darkish blue pixie minimize, and that character returns once more in “Gasoline.” Likewise, the “Gasoline” video additionally consists of an look from Tyler Posey, the Teen Wolf star who had beforehand appeared within the music video for “Colors,” the one that adopted “New Americana” when BADLANDS debuted a decade in the past.
“Drive” is considerably of an outlier in Badlands for its completely different temper. “It’s the first happy song I’ve ever written which is really cool for me, because it’s an optimistic song. It’s a sweet song, it’s about being in a relationship, being in love with someone and not knowing how to tell them,” Halsey defined in a up to date interview with PopJustice. “[I]t symbolises this departure from the Badlands — this point where I drive away. I leave.”
Over the course of the previous month, Halsey has celebrated BADLANDS. The singer kicked off August with three vinyl editions of the album, together with BADLANDS – Dwell From Webster Corridor, which was recorded in 2019 and launched in 2020. “So much has happened in the last decade, but BADLANDS remains the most exciting musical journey of my life,” Halsey mentioned on the time. “I have so many unbelievable things planned for this month to celebrate the album that changed my life and introduced me to the fans I’ll love forever.”
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