{"id":485977,"date":"2019-05-17T01:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=836572"},"modified":"2019-05-17T01:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:42:58","slug":"watch-halsey-get-fired-up-in-nightmare-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-halsey-get-fired-up-in-nightmare-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Halsey Get Fired Up in \u2018Nightmare\u2019 Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image004.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Girl power is on display in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/halsey-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halsey-2\" data-tag=\"halsey-2\">Halsey<\/a>\u2019s video for her new single \u201cNightmare.\u201d The clip, directed by Hannah Lux Davis and based on a concept by Halsey, features all women, including Cara Delevingne, Suki Waterhouse and Debbie Harry.<\/p>\n<p>The song itself reflects the frustration of being female in 2019, constantly being told to smile or how to use your body. \u201cNo, I won\u2019t smile, but I\u2019ll show you my teeth,\u201d the singer howls in the punk-inspired tune. \u201cAnd I\u2019ma let you speak if you just let me breathe\/I\u2019ve been polite, but won\u2019t be caught dead\/Lettin\u2019 a man tell me what I should do in my bed.\u201d She adds, \u201cI\u2019m tired and angry, but somebody should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine 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, and not being inspired by it,\u201d the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halsey\/status\/1129284447512039426\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cThis song is about you, for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"18.245033112583\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">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,<\/p>\n<p>and not being inspired by it.<\/p>\n<p>this song is about you, for you.<br \/>?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 h (@halsey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halsey\/status\/1129284447512039426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">May 17, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Halsey\u2019s last album, <em>Hopeless Fountain Kingdom,<\/em> dropped in 2017. Last year the singer released a chart-topping single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halsey-without-me-video-748552\/\">\u201cWithout Me,\u201d<\/a> with a music video that centered on an abusive relationship. She recently collaborated with BTS on their single \u201cBoy With Luv,\u201d off BTS\u2019 recent sixth EP <em>Map of the Soul: Persona,<\/em> and performed the track live with the K-Pop band during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halsey-bts-boy-with-luv-billboard-music-awards-829960\/\">Billboard Music Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-halsey-get-fired-up-nightmare-music-video-836572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl power is on display in Halsey\u2019s video for her new single \u201cNightmare.\u201d The clip, directed by Hannah Lux Davis and based on a concept by Halsey, features all women, including Cara Delevingne, Suki Waterhouse and Debbie Harry. The song itself reflects the frustration of being female in 2019, constantly being told to smile or [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 12:23:25","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}