Halsey Unveils Deluxe Edition of 'The Great Impersonator' with Unreleased Tracks

Halsey is giving fans even more with a deluxe edition of their fifth album, The Great Impersonator. The expanded record includes five previously unreleased tracks, notably “Carry the Weight,” which fans may recognize from the For My Last Trick Tour.

“It was really important to me that you guys got every song I intended for you to hear in the TGI cycle,” Halsey shared in a statement. “Here is the final punctuation on that long sentence.” The deluxe edition also features “Lucid,” (another live favorite), “Lessons,” “Nothing,” and “Charades,” plus a demo version of “Afraid of the Dark.”

These new tracks build upon the foundation of The Great Impersonator, a concept album born from Halsey's diagnosis with Lupus SLE and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder. Facing potential uncertainty, Halsey channeled their grief, fear, and resilience into the project. The poignant question, “Can you see that I’m bleeding on the stage?” from “Charades,” encapsulates the album's raw emotional core.
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Released in October 2024, The Great Impersonator marked Halsey's debut under Columbia Records. "I’m so grateful to everyone at Columbia Records who played a part in bringing this to life and getting it into the world,” Halsey stated. This followed their 2023 move from Capitol Records. Notably, Halsey revealed to Apple Music's Zane Lowe in September that they were initially “not allowed” to create the album because The Great Impersonator “didn’t perform the way they wanted it to.”

Halsey addressed the album's performance, stating, “If I’m being honest with you, the album sold 100,000 fucking copies first week. That’s a pretty big first week, especially for an artist who hasn’t had a hit in a long time.” The success translated to the For My Last Trick Tour, which Halsey described as the highest-selling tour of their career.

Halsey elaborated on the industry's expectations: “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. But it’s a failure in the context of the kind of success I’ve had previously. 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.”

In his review of The Great Impersonator, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield observed, “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.”

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