Even Greater blogherads.adq.push(function () ); Halsey Has More Tricks Up Her Sleeve on ‘The Great Impersonator’ Deluxe Version The record features five previously unreleased songs including “Carry the Weight,” which was premiered on the For My Last Trick Tour By Larisha Paul Larisha Paul Contact Larisha Paul on X Steve Lacy Is Bringing ‘Oh Yeah?’ on the Road With North American Tour Ravyn Lenae Breaks Down Boundaries on ‘Blue Island’ Why Is Everyone Convinced Tate McRae Is MAGA? View all posts by Larisha Paul May 1, 2026 Halsey attends the Los Angeles premiere of A24's “Marty Supreme” at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on December 08, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. Monica Schipper/Getty Images Halsey has a few more tricks up their sleeve on the deluxe edition of their fifth album, The Great Impersonator.
The musician expanded the album with five previously unreleased songs, including the pop-rock record “Carry the Weight,” which was premiered on the For My Last Trick Tour. They thought the album might be the last they would ever make and poured their grief, fear, and resilience into it. They signed with the label in 2023 after parting ways with Capitol Records.
In September, Halsey told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that she was, at the time, “not allowed” to make an album because The Great Impersonator “didn’t perform the way they wanted it to.” “If I’m being honest with you, the album sold 100,000 fucking copies first week,” Halsey said. Trending Stories Why Was It So Hard for Sam Cooke’s Grandkids to Drop a Soul Album? GOP Candidate Slammed for Telling Voters to Deal With Gas Prices by Cutting Back on Starbucks Trump Is Spending Nearly $1 Billion in Taxpayer Money on Gaudy White House Renovations: Report Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left “It would be considered a success for most artists, 100,000 albums in the first week, in an era when we don’t sell physical music,” she said.
And that’s the hardest part of having been a pop star once, because I’m not one anymore, and I’m being compared to people that I don’t consider lateral to me.” blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article2","mid","in-article2","mid-article","inbody","inbody2"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("music\/article\/inbody2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[3,3],[2,2],[6,6],[620,366]]) .setLazyLoadMultiplier(2) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); In a review of The Great Impersonator, Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield wrote, “There’s a constant tension between the playful wit in the music and the sluggish gloom of the vocals. But the best moments on The Great Impersonator come when the music wins out. Playing around with the past seems to shake up her imagination — and point her toward the future.” try ); }); } catch (error) In this article: Halsey Music Music News
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