About a year ago, Halsey released The Great Impersonator, an album (and album rollout) on which she commented on music-biz image construction, her own legacy, and the medical struggles that almost killed her. It was not her greatest success, commercially speaking. Despite peaking at #2 like most other Halsey albums (the chart-topping Hopeless Fountain Kingdom being the one exception), The Great Impersonator has not been certified platinum or even gold, and only one of its singles even made it onto the Hot 100, the #88-peaking “Lucky.” This, she says, has left her in a state of music industry paralysis.
