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Halsey: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power review – a muscular pop statement

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The singer-songwriter contemplates new motherhood on this intriguing fourth album

American singer-songwriter Halsey’s excellently titled fourth album comes accompanied by a film, unavailable to view at the time of writing. Trailers suggest a Game of Thrones-meets-French Revolution-themed goth rock opera about the Madonna-whore complex.

The album’s 13 tracks don’t quite live up to that billing, but there is no denying that Halsey, who recently gave birth, wants to make a muscular and epic statement. Otherwise, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails would be a very odd choice for midwives to a pop superstar’s emotional album about love, pregnancy and female sexuality.

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