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And I pray that we are written for each other.

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Halsey (For My Last Trick Tour)

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Crescenciano Garza Rivera (1895–1958) - illustration from the series “Fantasías de C. Garza Rivera”, 1940

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I feel like I’m missing something that everyone else has

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i need people to stop being so fucking insanely dumb i need us to collectively remember empathy i need social media to die i need the system to collapse i need to shoot an advertisement

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And the very last thing I told him was see you soon and we can play <3

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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

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Zach Galifinakis and Fiona Apple on MySpace.com [x]

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Alsooooooo one thing I noticed (the storytelling of the setlist is insaneeee idk how ppl don't get it but anyway)

At the end of lucky, she's questioning everything, w the realization at the end throwing everything on the ground the "wtf is going on" that she can't do it again she needs to find a way out but in the next set she's just chained to the stage there's no way out she just have to perform "actually acting" but she puts out some of her own misery in the song trying to show how is it all soooo fucked up but at the same time she has to perform to an audience all sexy, all pretty just the way they want/expect most women in the industry to do....

Idk but I hope I explained what I had in mind clearly enough 😭

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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A mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

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You know a mercy kill is what I seek

I didn't ask to live

But dying is up to Me..

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This house has been abandoned for almost a year now, and yet these lights stay on all through the day and all through the night.