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HALSEY Hand That Feeds (2025)

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I’ve seen several people talking about how it makes them feel weird that Dog Years, a song that is explicitly about suicidal ideation, is something Halsey performs as a sexy song, and while that’s completely fair, I personally think the performance style fits the song really well, even if it’s uncomfortable? (In fact, I think the discomfort is a purposeful, important element of the whole song)

Discussion of suicidal ideation and sex as a unenthusiastic performance below the cut

The first time I heard Dog Years I called it “evil petplay” when explaining it to my friends because that imagery seems so deliberate. Halsey’s voice is getting all husky and low as they croon about what a good dog they’ve been and how they like a tight leash, and especially given their known love of/interest in kink, that takes your mind to a very specific and imo intentional place. But they turn it on its head — if they’re going to be a dog, then they’re an old, tired, weak, sickly one and they want to be put out of their misery and euthanized like you would any pet in that state, and that is very not sexy. It’s a visceral image that can be quite upsetting and uncomfortable, all the more so when paired with the very sexually charged chorus. It makes that chorus feel like more of a reluctant performance — she doesn’t feel sexy, she’s not in the mood, but it’s what’s expected of her and so she’s going along with it and hey, if she’s a good girl maybe she’ll get lucky and they’ll put her down. “I’m not here, I’m somewhere else” — they’re going through the motions of the performance and playing along with what’s expected of them but their heart is not in it, and they feel nothing towards it.

And I feel like that plays into the entire theme of The Great Impersonator as a whole? The whole idea of the expected performance and what that experience does to a person: going through the motions because you’re an entertainer and your job is to entertain and put on a show, but the whole time you’re in the darkest place you’ve ever been both physically and mentally, so sick that you truly expect you aren’t going to survive it. But you still have to do the show, you still have to make it look good, you still have to be appealing to the crowd, and so you have to play the good girl who loves her tight leash because that’s fun and sexy, and the rest of it is something you keep to yourself because people don’t want to hear about that.

I really like the staging of Dog Years on the FMLT tour for that reason. There is something so visceral about Halsey sitting in sexy leather lingerie while literally chained to the stage singing about how much they want someone to just kill them. Sure, it’s sexy, but she is stuck there performing for you, even as she’s voicing some of the darkest thoughts a person can have about themselves. How does that make you feel? Is it hot? Are you enjoying it? Should you be? That just fits the vibe I get from that song so well.

Of course, I could be fully misreading and Halsey could have had completely different intentions for this song, but that’s just how I’ve seen it?

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HE’S SO EMO

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american pope is like an ethel cain album name

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there’s a place downtown where the freaks all come around

it’s a hole in the wall it’s a dirty free for all

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its so easy to boycott eurovision that i never even know its happening until i see the posts telling people not to watch it

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odulendro story

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in lieu of joost being disqualified for no reason im posting his semi final performance so u don’t have to give the ebu any views

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Drew my fav bbno$ pic (and added a few things 🦜)

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DOJA CAT | COACHELLA (2024)

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Doja Cat performs ‘Demons’ at Coachella 2024

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Thick in the thigh, thick in the waist Thick in the right motherfuckin' places Hits like Venus, Serena He wanna eat up the caesar Bonita, bonita, bonita

TIA TAMERA - Doja Cat Live at Coachella 2024

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DOJA CAT for coachella

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Lady Gaga brings MAYHEM to Coachella — 2025

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Lady Gaga just gave one of the best Coachella performances of all time. The visuals, the story telling, the vocals. She chewed!!!