Halsey treated her fans in Los Angeles to a ‘90s alt-rock version of ‘Colors’ on Halloween on Thursday – check out footage below.
READ MORE: Halsey – ‘The Great Impersonator’ review: a brutal but brilliant reckoning with chronic illness
The singer was playing a show for Amazon Music Live, and her 13-track set took the crowd on a journey through the decades, with portions of the show dedicated to the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s.
For the ‘90s section, Halsey played ‘Ego’ from her new album ‘The Great Impersonator’, ‘You Should Be Sad’ from 2020’s ‘Manic’, 2021’s ‘Nightmare (Reprise)’, and a brand-new version of ‘Colors’, from her debut album ‘Badlands’ in 2016.
Watch footage of the guitar-heavy, rocked up version of ‘Colors’ here:
Halsey also opened the show with the title track of her new album, playing it live for the first time ever. The album was released less than a week before the show, her fifth studio record in total and first since 2021’s ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’.
Halsey played at Los Angeles’ Amazon Music Live:
The Great Impersonator
Bad At Love
Panic Attack
Hometown
Graveyard
Ego
Colors
You Should Be Sad
Nightmare (Reprise)
Lonely Is The Muse
Walls Could Talk
Lucky
Without Me
The new album contains Halsey’s reflections on her personal health struggles in recent years, after being diagnosed with lupus and T cell lymphoproliferative disorder, and includes the Britney-sampling single ‘Lucky’, as well as ‘Lonely Is The Muse’ and ‘I Never Loved You’.
In a five-star review of the album, NME wrote: “‘The Great Impersonator’, Halsey’s fifth studio album and first for Columbia, comes from a place they describe as “the space between life and death”. On the surface, it’s a tribute to the artists who made them. But on the other hand, it’s a brutal reckoning with chronic illnesses and postpartum depression, written when they weren’t certain if they’d make it to the other side.”
“In many of the lyrics, there almost seems no chance for redemption. It’s through the music, much of it inspired by artists they were listening to during chemotherapy, that she finds empathy for herself. ‘Panic Attack’ compares falling in love to needing an antihistamine, but it’s hard to feel anxious over an arrangement with the warmth of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’.”
Elsewhere, Halsey recently revealed an incident in which a “powerful” music executive went through her nudes on her phone without her consent. They shared the experience left them feeling “demoralised”, adding: “I was just frozen…I didn’t even know what to do.”
The post Watch Halsey reimagine ‘Colors’ as a ’90s alt-rock track in Los Angeles appeared first on NME.
