{"id":23838,"date":"2019-05-17T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1042279"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:25:00","slug":"halseys-nightmare-is-the-ultimate-girl-power-anthem-youve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/halseys-nightmare-is-the-ultimate-girl-power-anthem-youve-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Halsey&#8217;s &#8220;Nightmare&#8221; Is the Ultimate Girl Power Anthem You&#8217;ve Been Waiting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019417\/rs_600x600-190517050242-600-Halsey-Nightmare-51719-JB.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.840211640212\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.410582010582\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a><\/strong> never disappoints.<\/p>\n<p>When a fan tweeted yesterday, &#8220;i could really use a angry anthem right now @halsey,&#8221; the 24-year-old was waiting in the wings, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halsey\/status\/1129142458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ready with a response<\/a>: &#8220;well boy do I have a song for you.&#8221; At midnight, she followed through, releasing her girl power song &#8220;Nightmare&#8221;\u2014and an all-female <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/981532\/halsey-s-without-me-music-video-documents-a-toxic-relationship-and-stars-a-g-eazy-look-alike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">music video<\/a> to go along with the instant hit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine getting onstage every night and seeing young women sweating mascara tears, lightning in their eyes, throwing elbows and raising fists, screaming till the veins in their necks raise under warm skin,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halsey\/status\/1129284447512039426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the singer wrote on Twitter<\/a>. &#8220;And not being inspired by it. This song is about you, for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;her wildly empowering, four-minute video\u2014based on a concept by Halsey,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/984583\/ariana-grande-keeps-on-breathin-in-dreamy-new-music-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">directed by<\/a> <strong>Hannah Lux Davis<\/strong>\u2014she poses for a mugshot, spits blood and riots&nbsp;in the burning streets. Her&nbsp;epic&nbsp;girl gang, clad in power suits, includes&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cara_delevingne\">Cara Delevingne<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Debbie Harry<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/suki_waterhouse\">Suki Waterhouse<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.760869565217\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.582608695652\">\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;No, I won&#8217;t smile but I&#8217;ll show you my teeth,&#8221; she sings. &#8220;I could play nice or I could be a bully. I&#8217;m tired and angry but somebody should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The superstar, whose&nbsp;last album, <em>Hopeless Fountain Kingdom<\/em>, dropped in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1037265\/halsey-teases-what-her-performance-with-bts-will-be-like-at-2019-billboard-music-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teased new music<\/a> in March.&nbsp;&#8220;I know you guys are anxious for new music and new memories,&#8221; she tweeted to her&nbsp;10.9 million&nbsp;followers. &#8220;For touring and traveling with your friends. For events and pop ups and meeting new people. For music video screenshots. For group chats and late night. Thank you for being patient with me. I want it to be perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.828254847645\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.8919667590028\">\n<p>&#8220;Writing this album has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1009498\/halsey-shares-the-biggest-lesson-she-learned-after-g-eazy-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lesson in forgiving myself<\/a>,&#8221; Halsey added. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1030635\/sexual-assault-a-bipolar-diagnosis-and-life-on-the-streets-inside-halsey-s-heartbreakingly-tough-path-to-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In being proud of myself<\/a>&nbsp;and kind to myself despite how much this world is designed to make you hate yourself. I hope when it&#8217;s finally in your hands it brings you that same peace. It&#8217;s not a quiet peace. It&#8217;s a loud one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Nightmare&#8221; is any indication, that is certainly the truth.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>Watch the epic video above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042279\/halsey-s-nightmare-is-the-ultimate-girl-power-anthem-you-ve-been-waiting-for?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halsey never disappoints. When a fan tweeted yesterday, &#8220;i could really use a angry anthem right now @halsey,&#8221; the 24-year-old was waiting in the wings, ready with a response: &#8220;well boy do I have a song for you.&#8221; At midnight, she followed through, releasing her girl power song &#8220;Nightmare&#8221;\u2014and an all-female music video to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:11:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}