
She also shared at the time that she was suffering from endometriosis, which can cause infertility, and underwent surgery for it in 2017. Halsey has been on a long and hard road when it comes to pregnancy. At the beginning of the year, the “Without Me” hitmaker announced their pregnancy while wearing a rainbow crochet crop top that hinted at their previous pregnancy loss, with the expected child being known as a “rainbow baby.” The singer previously opened up about suffering a miscarriage onstage and deciding to freeze their eggs in a 2018 interview - when she was 23 - on The Doctors. Like, go be a big girl, a girl is a gun, all I can taste is the blood in my mouth.”Įvery Song Ranked on Halsey’s ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’: Critic’s… … Being pregnant, writing this album, people are expecting girlishness, you know what I mean? And any time where I ever talk about womanhood, motherhood, femininity, I’m usually talking about it with a taste in my mouth. From the jump, I’m like, ‘I’m not a woman.’ I’m not saying any of that. “Also, not for nothing, but the lead single is ‘I Am Not a Woman, I’m a God’ - it’s not a girl power album. “Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s like this is a girl power album,’ and I’m like, ‘No, it’s not,'” she said, setting the record straight. On If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, Halsey doesn’t sugarcoat the subject matter, even if her vocals sound that way. Halsey opened up about how pregnancy “has leveled my perception of gender entirely” as well as the pressure to feel like a “girly-girly fertility goddess” in a lengthy Instagram post from February. In a sit-down interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe for New Music Daily, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter talked about how their fourth studio album explores themes of pregnancy and new motherhood, but their journey doesn’t align with the hyper-feminine societal conceptions of it. Halsey broke down her new album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power in a new interview and explained why it’s not a “girl power album.”
