Manic is the third album by the American singer Halsey. The album includes the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, “Without Me”.
Let’s dig into some trivia and facts about the new album!
- Manic is the third studio album by American singer Halsey
- It was released on January 17, 2020, through Capitol Records
- It includes her 2018 Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit “Without Me”
- As well as the singles “Graveyard”, “Clementine”, “Finally // Beautiful Stranger”, “Suga’s Interlude”, and “You Should Be Sad”
- It features guest appearances by Dominic Fike, Alanis Morissette, and Suga of BTS
- And samples of Kate Winslet, John Mayer, Amanda Seyfried, and Megan Fox
- Halsey will promote the album on her upcoming third concert tour, the Manic World Tour
- On October 4, 2018, Halsey released the song “Without Me”
- Which was the first solo material since her second studio album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017)
- Originally, the song was intended as a standalone track
- But was later included on the record, becoming the actual lead single
- In March 2019, Halsey announced that her third studio album would be released in 2020 and that she wanted it to be “perfect”
- The standalone single, “Nightmare” , released on May 17, 2019
- It was originally intended to be the lead single from the album
- A scene in the music video for “Nightmare” showed Halsey holding a newspaper reading “MANIC”
- And another scene where she holds a sign reading “H3 / AI / 10–2019”, with the actual day not shown
- Which some speculated as a hint that the album would be released in October 2019
- However, the album was released on January 17, 2020
- During a question-and-answer session on August 7, 2019, she stated that the album is “less dystopian fantasy world” and that it reflects her current worldview
- In her Rolling Stone cover story, Halsey stated that Manic is a sampling of “hip-hop, rock, country, fucking everything – because it’s so manic. It’s soooooo manic. It’s literally just, like, whatever the fuck I felt like making; there was no reason I couldn’t make it”
- She revealed the album title on her social media on September 12, 2019, along with an official link to a website with the album title
- The website contained a livestream of the singer painting the album cover
- The album is set to have 16 tracks on the standard edition
- She revealed the tracklist on December 3, 2019
- And went live on Instagram shortly after to discuss the album and answer fan questions
- During the live, she stated that the album is very personal in which saying, “I feel like you guys have really given me the chance this year to express myself more and be myself in a way that I don’t know if I’ve really felt like I have been able to since my first album”
- She also stated that fans would get to meet a part of her that she’s been really excited to show
- When asked what her favorite song is, she said that the most personal one is “More”
- And not being able to pick just one, she listed some of her favorites which include, “I Hate Everybody”, “929”, “Killing Boys”, and “Dominic’s Interlude”
- The album was revealed to have three features including Dominic Fike, Alanis Morissette, and Suga of BTS
- Halsey describes them as “People who really represent different parts of my psyche and different parts of my personality in so many different ways”
- Manic is a “busy album” and a “raw and honest look into Halsey’s head and heart”
- On which she explores many genres, including “electro-pop, sparkly ballads, hip-hop, twang, and ’90s alt rock”
- And “everything from Lilith Fair folk guitar to South Korean rap”
- Lyrically, it deals with the singer’s struggles with bipolar disorder (previously known as manic depression)
- Manic received critical acclaim
- At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 81 out of 100
- Which indicates “universal acclaim”
- Based on 14 reviews
