After channeling Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, late Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, Evanescence’s Amy Lee, David Bowie, Cher and different iconic stars as a part of her countdown to imminent album The Nice Impersonator (Oct. 25), Halsey tapped into considered one of their greatest childhood influences on Thursday (Oct. 17).
To preview the sixteenth observe on the album, the Spears-sampling “Fortunate,” Halsey, 30, morphed into Within the Zone-era Britney Spears, posting a picture of herself with wind-tousled, blonde-streaked hair standing in a blue void whereas staring intently on the digicam with a steely look.
“It’s Britney, b–ch!!!,” Halsey wrote of the eleventh preview of her fifth studio album. “The primary famous person who ever impressed me,” they wrote of Spears. “There have been infinite Britney appears to select from, however I had to do that iconic album!,” they added of Spears’ 2003 fourth studio album, which featured the Madonna collab “Me Towards the Music,” in addition to the Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 9 hit “Poisonous.” The accompanying picture comes as Halsey promised to be “impersonating a special icon each day and teasing a snippet of the track they impressed.”
To date that’s meant the gauzy pop tune “Panic Assault” in honor of Nicks, the twangy Parton homage “Hometown,” in addition to the Harvey tackle turbulent rocker “Canine Years” and tricks to the enigmatic British pop star Bush on the chilly “I By no means Cherished You,” Cher with the aching “Letter to God (1974),” rock chameleon Bowie on the spooky “Darwinism” and Lee on the churning “Lonely Is the Muse.”
The pitch good look/sound experiment continued earlier this week with Halsey sporting a brief copper-toned coiffure for the O’Riordan rager “Ego,” rolling up their sleeves, choosing up a guitar and posing in entrance of an American flag for the confessional “Letter to God” as The Boss and going acoustic for the lo-fi Linda Rondstadt tribute “I Imagine in Magic.”
On Thursday, the Grammy-nominated singer booked an intimate Nov. 21 present on the 1,400-capacity Regency Ballroom in San Francisco; the present is a completely for Wells Fargo Autograph Credit score cardholders.
See Halsey’s Britney Spears-inspired look beneath.
