Even as she’s progressed to Billboard highs and Grammy nods, Halsey continues to straddle that uneasy divide. In the wake of Lorde and Lana Del Rey, she helped shift the outcasts and rebels towards pop’s center. And whatever she had intended, Halsey’s forays into early vlogger culture made her a star without sacrificing the circumspect side she learned as a young woman living on New York City’s streets. But this LA-by-way-of-New Jersey songwriter has always mingled cynicism with awe: You don’t post a parody of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” to YouTube if you don’t crave that glamour a little bit. Halsey (born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane in 1994) was frustrated when critics mistook her defining single, “New Americana,” from her 2015 debut BADLANDS, as an aspirational anthem rather than the satire of American pop culture she intended.
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