Halsey's New Americana Far From Novel

Talk about misleading advertising. New Jersey native Halsey has a new single out called "New Americana" that hardly can be described as delivering anything new. Truth be told the overall sensibility mishmashes any adventure film macho energy burst you could ever hope to stumble upon. I do give this 21 year-old starlet the nod for name dropping a few of her musical influences in the lyrics. She was raised on Biggie and Nirvana. We shall await the royalty checks bound to come into both posthumously centered acts. Not to digress any further "New Americana" strikes me as the type of track tailor made for a WTF sort of reply. If the tune doesn't leave you with too many questions with not enough answers to go around, the video barges into your sensibilities with a eerie aftertaste sort of out place for an artist I can bet most people are only recently discovering, if they manage to do so at all. Isn't this brand of female primal savagery better suited for an act of either sex equipped with the budget to make such bold pronouncements so early in the career? Way too major motion picture slanted for someone who isn't toting around a multi-album deal as yet. By the way...how many artists see fit to insert a Balenciaga into the lyric sheet? I can count that on one hand. Halsey's too young to have intimate knowledge of Rockefeller to venture into dropping that clan into her song. I admire how she wants to leave a biting first impression. Only one shot at pulling that off. Good for her for channeling dynasties of the past. That's fascinating reading. For added head scratching or chortling at the big girl demeanor she imposes on us I suggest you look no further than "They're Monaco and Hamptons bound, but we don't feel like outsiders at all." Lots of bling spreading around. I suppose she's claiming despite the affluence of her peers, she doesn't have her nose pressed against the glass, looking forlornly at how the other half is living, laughing and, by all accounts thriving. To put it another way what we have on our hands here is march music marching off to fight a war we've witnessed many times before and in better qualified hands. From what Wikipedia informs me Halsey's both been through a lot and has had music leanings coursing through her veins from the beginning. She originally played violin, viola, and cello. In her teens she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, no easy thing for individual, friends or family to deal with. I'm happy she's turned to music as a way out of that mad tangle. That explains the military brusque attitude on display. Like I said, she's 21 which, ideally gives her career time to blossom into something exhibiting multi-dimensional hues. At present Halsey's prospects don't appear to have legs."New Americana" sounds old as the hills, not a good handle to carry around. Halsey's really a stage name derived from the anagram name Ashley, as in her birth name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. If she can use her wits to craft a clever on stage persona you'd think that would translate into a similarly brainy on record sound. My fingers are crossed that in time she'll prove the power of her cranium can rise to full flower. "New Americana" isn't meant for long shelf life.