Halsey

December, 2015

"I'VE LEARNED to pull confidence out of myself like I'm fucking siphoning water from 10 feet beneath the soil," says 21-year-old Halsey, whose music is a haunt­ing amalgama­tion of Biggie, Alanis and the Cure. When her dystopian LP Badlands charted as 2015's second- biggest debut by a female artist, bloggers put her in a box: She's biracial; she's bisexual; she's this; she's that. But labels hardly inhibit Halsey, who is wrapping a tour with the Weeknd. "My confidence grew from be...