{"id":54824,"date":"2017-08-17T03:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T03:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54824"},"modified":"2017-08-17T04:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:22:54","slug":"halsey-covers-our-music-issue-and-proves-no-topic-is-off-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54824","title":{"rendered":"Halsey Covers Our Music Issue\u2014and Proves No Topic is Off-limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halsey Covers Our Music Issue\u2014and Proves No Topic is Off-limits<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Playboy<\/a>
\n20Q
\n2017-08-05 (September 2017 Issue)<\/p>\n

By\u00a0Rebecca Haithcoat<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhotography by Ramona Rosales<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

With <\/em>Hopeless Fountain Kingdom<\/a>, the queen of New Americana is more outspoken than ever. Here, she covers everything from donating $100,000 to Planned Parenthood<\/a> to the virtues of the dad bod<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q1<\/strong>
\nHopeless Fountain Kingdom<\/em><\/a> hit number one on the Billboard 200<\/a>. You\u2019re the first woman to top that chart in 2017. How does it feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot of this accolade shit is super arbitrary: \u201cHalsey<\/a> is the first girl with blue hair from New Jersey<\/a> to.\u2026\u201d It\u2019s exciting but also enraging, because I know a lot of women who put out better albums than me who deserve massive accolades, and I\u2019m the one who had to break the seal…<\/p>\n

…Q14<\/strong>
\n How did you navigate growing up biracial?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m half black. My dad managed a car dealership, wore a suit to work, had a nice watch, was always clean-shaven, handsome, played golf on the weekends. And people would come up to him like, \u201cYo, brotha! What\u2019s up!\u201d And my dad would be like, \u201cHi.\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Q15<\/strong>
\n How did that affect you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m white-passing<\/a>. I\u2019ve accepted that about myself and have never tried to control anything about black culture that\u2019s not mine. I\u2019m proud to be in a biracial family, I\u2019m proud of who I am, and I\u2019m proud of my hair. One of my big jokes a long time ago was \u201cI look white, but I still have white boys in my life asking me why my nipples are brown.\u201d Every now and then I experience these racial blips. I look like a white girl, but I don\u2019t feel like one. I\u2019m a black woman. So it\u2019s been weird navigating that. When I was growing up I didn\u2019t know if I was supposed to love TLC<\/a> or Britney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Q16<\/strong>
\n How do people react when they do find out you\u2019re biracial?<\/strong><\/p>\n

White guilt is funny, but this is a really hard time for white allies. People don\u2019t want to do too much but want to do enough, and in my bubble of Los Angeles<\/a> I\u2019m surrounded by a lot of good people with a lot of good intentions. But as I learned in this past election, my bubble is just a small fraction of how this country operates. That is ultimately my greatest frustration with the public perception of any sort of activism: the mentality of \u201cWell, it\u2019s not affecting me.\u201d Open your fucking eyes…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom,” the queen of New Americana is more outspoken than ever. Here, she covers everything from donating $100,000 to Planned Parenthood to the virtues of the dad bod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[27466,27465,27464,1392,24078,27463,25651],"class_list":["post-54824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-ashley-frangipane","tag-ashley-nicolette-frangipane","tag-halsey","tag-music","tag-playboy","tag-ramona-rosales","tag-rebecca-haithcoat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54825,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54824\/revisions\/54825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}