Halsey announces upcoming album ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’
Halsey has announced their fourth studio album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. The new release will feature production from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails. Halsey made the June 28 announcement via Twitter, providing an agonizingly short sample of what’s to come from the project. The distorted audio bite […]
Halsey made the June 28 announcement via Twitter, providing an agonizingly short sample of what’s to come from the project. The distorted audio bite seems to allude to a grittier sound from Halsey.
They also posted a video on their Instagram, showing a billboard that teased the album art for If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. The official Nine Inch Nails Instagram account posted an identical video and caption.
If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power follows the 2020 album Manic, which went platinum in the United States. The record was supposed to have an accompanying tour, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Halsey told Byrdie that about-face is largely inspired by the ‘90s music scene.
“I feel like I never really see makeup anymore that’s about being fucked up and dirty and grungy and just wrong, and so much makeup used to be about that,” Halsey says to Byrdie. “I’m just paying homage to the style of makeup and the makeup influences that I’ve always loved: very ’90s-heavy, very Myspace scene queen, very emo revival.”
Additionally, Reznor and Ross released two instrumental albums in 2020 with Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts, which were released for free as gifts to fans during the pandemic.
More new music is possibly on its way from the duo. Reznor hinted about new NIN material backstage following his latest Oscar win.
“Ten years ago, when we did The Social Network, which is the first film that we worked on, it was such a great experience,” Reznor says. “We just came out of it inspired and re-energized, and it was working on a medium we hadn’t done before and learned so much that we felt like, hey, let’s do a Nine Inch Nails record; let’s go on tour.”
“What we’ve tried to do since then is break it up where we do some rock music, we come back and do some film work,” Reznor continued. “We’ve just done three pretty big films in Watchmen, Mank and Soul in a row. We should be on tour but COVID has prevented that. We are planning on working on Nine Inch Nails material as soon as, probably tomorrow.”
The group’s schedule is slated to pick back up in June of 2022, when Nine Inch Nails will play the 15th-anniversary edition of Hellfest. You can get tickets to all these shows here.
09/19 — Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest 09/21 — Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica 09/23 — Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica 09/25 — Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life Festival 11/11 — Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville 06/24 — Clisson, FR @ Hellfest