album Halsey - 'The Great Impersonator'

[Lady Claire]

Deluxe with 20+ songs then

 

I also hope she makes tons of videos. It doesn't even have to be super high budget, LITM was considered just a visualizer but i consider as a video since the aesthetic is amazing and perfectly fits the song

[Alienhead]

Did she perform on VMA? why I can't find her performance video?

[FlyOnTheWall]

Ego's one of my favorite songs of the year omg

[Joesuxx]

On 9/9/2024 at 8:29 PM, AshleyLovescats887 said:

 

 

Btw these are the possible  categories for each song that we know of is in:

 

All of them(?)

• 'The Great Impersonator' (considering that we have 18 songs, we might get 2 songs that aren't clinging onto a specific time period and the title track probably being the opener ngl)

70s

• 'The End'

• 'Panic Attack'

80s

• 'Hometown'

• 'Dog Years'

90s

• 'Ego'

• 'Darwinism'

• 'Arsonist'

2000s

• 'Lucky'

• 'Lonely is the Muse'

I thought Lonely is the Muse is 80's Halsey - she's on the single cover. 

[AshleyLovescats887]

6 hours ago, Joesuxx said:

I thought Lonely is the Muse is 80's Halsey - she's on the single cover. 

I think it's Y2K! cuz it's on the same Y2K! site as 'Lucky', plus both of the songs have the star symbol that seems to represent that time period but idk

[Joesuxx]

1 hour ago, AshleyLovescats887 said:

I think it's Y2K! cuz it's on the same Y2K! site as 'Lucky', plus both of the songs have the star symbol that seems to represent that time period but idk

Ah ok! It's so confusing I'm wondering how she will distinguish each song to a decade or if she'll bother? 

[AshleyLovescats887]

2 hours ago, Joesuxx said:

Ah ok! It's so confusing I'm wondering how she will distinguish each song to a decade or if she'll bother? 

I think that the tracklist will be ordered with time periods in mind, as the pre-released songs are all very far away from each other

[AshleyLovescats887]

Apparently Halsey said that there's a stripped back piano ballad which still makes her cry and she considers to be her most well-written song ever..

I wonder if that could be the song that's dedicated to her mother, or if that's the 'I Forgive You' outtake from 'If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power' that was too emotional to release, or if that's a completely different song.

Edited September 24 by AshleyLovescats887

[makeawish]

On 9/23/2024 at 10:30 AM, AshleyLovescats887 said:

I think that the tracklist will be ordered with time periods in mind, as the pre-released songs are all very far away from each other

my assumption was that each side of the LP would be a different decade?

[Joesuxx]

2 hours ago, AshleyLovescats887 said:

Apparently Halsey said that there's a stripped back piano ballad which still makes her cry and she considers to be her most well-written song ever..

I wonder if that could be the song that's dedicated to her mother, or if that's the 'I Forgive You' outtake from 'If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power' that was too emotional to release, or if that's a completely different song.

Idk but I love I Forgive You, and it's very well written. 

[AshleyLovescats887]

27 minutes ago, makeawish said:

my assumption was that each side of the LP would be a different decade?

I mean, that could still be plausible.

 

There are some things that I noticed in the tracklist:

• 'Ego' and 'The End' are separated by 3 songs in between them, which would make sense as they are from 2 different time periods, however 'Lonely is the Muse' and 'Lucky' are also separated by 3 songs, even though they are from the same Y2K! era.

• Track 8 is the shortest track (around 1:58) and seems to be an interlude, so I would assume that it's a bridge between two time periods

• Judging by what we know, the order of the time periods would be:

90s -> 70s -> 80s -> Y2K!

 

Now that I think about it, the tracklist is probably not going to be that smoothly flowing into each time period, as 'Lonely is the Muse' is just way too far from 'Lucky' and it kinda abrupts the 80s era

 

[Bussea]

 

Tracklist!

 

[motomami]

On 9/24/2024 at 3:15 AM, AshleyLovescats887 said:

Apparently Halsey said that there's a stripped back piano ballad which still makes her cry and she considers to be her most well-written song ever..

Track 14

[original_lifeline]

1. Only Living Girl in LA
2. Ego
3. Dog Years
4. Letter to God (1974)
5. Panic Attack
6. The End
7. I Believe in Magic
8. Letter to God (1983)
9. Hometown
10. I Never Loved You
11. Darwinism
12. Lonely is the Muse
13. Arsonist
14. Life of the Spider (Draft)
15. Hurt Feelings
16. Lucky
17. Letter to God (1998)
18. The Great Impersonator

[Kern]

As I thought songs are not sequenced by the eras. interesting how one song has 3 versions? 

[original_lifeline]

3 minutes ago, Kern said:

As I thought songs are not sequenced by the eras. interesting how one song has 3 versions? 

these may be spoken-word interludes 

[AshleyLovescats887]

7 minutes ago, original_lifeline said:

1. Only Living Girl in LA
2. Ego
3. Dog Years
4. Letter to God (1974)
5. Panic Attack
6. The End
7. I Believe in Magic
8. Letter to God (1983)
9. Hometown
10. I Never Loved You
11. Darwinism
12. Lonely is the Muse
13. Arsonist
14. Life of the Spider (Draft)
15. Hurt Feelings
16. Lucky
17. Letter to God (1998)
18. The Great Impersonator

These titles already hit me

'I Never Loved You' & 'I Believe In Magic' especially

I feel like the 'Letters To God' are meant to be possible interludes that act as bridges between the time periods? The dates definitely seem to linked to a time period, the only one that doesn't have a letter is Y2K!, but it could also be the draft song

Edited September 25 by AshleyLovescats887

[perfectillusion204]

It would be really cool if Letter to God was the same song lyrically, but sonically matching their decade. BUT I have a feeling they are gonna be spoken word interludes.

 

And it seems like there is somewhat a sequencing to this album. The bolded tracks have been confirmed for their decade. I would have to assume tracks 3-16 are in chronological order:

1. OLGILA
2. Ego - 90s
3. Dog Years
4. Letter to God - 70s
5. Panic Attack - 70s
6. The End - 70s
7. I Believe in Magic
8. Letter to God - 80s
9. Hometown - 80s
10. I Never Loved You
11. Darwinism - 90s
12. Lonely is the Muse - 90s (I know she technically confirmed this as 2000 but let it be 90s to fit my theory lol)
13. Arsonist - 90s
14. Life of the Spider
15. Hurt Feelings
16. Lucky - 00s
17. Letter to God - 90s
18. The Great Impersonator

 

Regardless, I think the album will tell a story which is why the first 2 tracks and last 2 tracks are not in order by decade, but probably lyrically. 

Edited September 25 by perfectillusion204

[AshleyLovescats887]

Someone has already decoded which songs are from which era

So yeah, Y2K! does not have a letter to God. There are also a lot of 80s track compared to 70s or Y2K!

[drip drop]

i really want to like this record, i probably will. cant waitttt. titles look so halseyesque

[Kern]

7 minutes ago, AshleyLovescats887 said:

Someone has already decoded which songs are from which era

So yeah, Y2K! does not have a letter to God. There are also a lot of 80s track compared to 70s or Y2K!

Apparently that's not fully correct. There is less 80s tracks and more 00s!

[AshleyLovescats887]

5 minutes ago, Kern said:

Apparently that's not fully correct. There is less 80s tracks and more 00s!

Also there is a different symbol for some songs ('Only Living Girl In LA', 'I Believe In Magic', 'Life Of The Spider', 'The Great Impersonator')

And Halsey did state that FIVE time periods will be on this album...holy **** it could be the timefluid one/the 60s/the 2010s/present day

Edited September 25 by AshleyLovescats887

[Kern]

9 minutes ago, AshleyLovescats887 said:

Also there is a different symbol for some songs ('I Believe In Magic', 'Life Of The Spider', 'The Great Impersonator')

And Halsey did state that FIVE time periods will be on this album...holy **** it could be the timefluid one

Other time period is prehistoric age or 2600

[AshleyLovescats887]

Just now, Kern said:

Other time period is prehistoric age or 2600

Dinosey/Robosey we love to see them

[Ger]

Personally, I associate LITM more with the 90's, and Ego with the 00's.