Colors Halsey HalseyColors Album Badlands Recording Company Astralwerks

Colors Halsey

Halsey-Colors Album: Badlands Recording Company: Astralwerks Released: 2015 Halsey-Colors lyrics

Personal Life Musical Career ● Born in New Jersey on September 29, 1994 ● Grew up playing the violin, viola, and cello ● Given the name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane at birth ● Learned acoustic guitar at age 14; first song learned ● Comes from a biracial family; her father is African American and her mother is Italian ● Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16 or 17 ● Initially planned on majoring in fine arts, but due to money issues, transferred to community college to study creative writing ● Now identifies as bisexual was “Fifteen” by Taylor Swift ● At age 17, she began to write music, ● Due to financial troubles, she began to play at venues for money at age 18 ● Used various names, but finally stuck with “Halsey” ● Signed in 2014; recorded first EP Room 93

Meaning ● She begins with recalling on his family and how his drug use is taking him on a dark road ● He begins to tell all of his secrets, both deep and scary, but she finds him beautiful and becomes more infatuated ● She becomes so invested that his traits and way of life begin to show on her, resulting in her losing herself and changing ● He goes down such a bad path; she was so invested in their love, but now she does not have him ● Their colors (personalities and traits) mixed, making her a vision that reflected him, but he did not like what she had become, so he left her

Message: When you become so infatuated with someone that is not emotionally or mentally stable, they may end up leaving you, resulting in heartbreak and your own emotionally instability Halsey shows this by first becoming deeply invested in to him, already knowing that he is on a dark road himself. She becomes so invested that she becomes what he is, but he then leaves. Him leaving leaves her in her own state of mental instability; she now has to wake up without him, leaving everything “blue”.

Theme: Changing for someone does not always guarantee that they will stay She was never like him from the start, but the more invested she became with him, the more she became him. She was no longer herself, but she did not care because she had the man she was falling in love with. Whenever he realized what she had become, he decided to leave, causing her heartbreak. He could not stand the person she had become, even though it was a vision of what he was. Theme: Sometimes the ones you love and care for the most are the ones to hurt you in the end She was so deeply in love with this man, and accepted every dark twisted thing about him. Yet, even though she stuck with him and never thought about leaving, once he found one thing wrong with her, he was gone.

Theme continued. . . Theme: Love blinds you from seeing the truth From the beginning, she knew he was no good for her; he was already down a dark road and did not seem as if he would be coming back. As the days went on, he spilled more secrets and dark thoughts, but she continued to stay, even though all the signs were there. She was so in love that he could do no wrong; everything he said or did was beautiful, which led her to heartbreak in the end.

Intended Audience ● Teens ● Young adults Halsey herself is also a young adult, so she will be writing for those around her age that could be going through similar situations. Also, heartbreak is mostly inevitable at such a young age, so her songs appeal to those of that audience. During the teen and young adult years, you are more reckless and carefree. Love is a new thing, and is experimented with. At the young ages, love really is blind, so those of that age make decisions just based on their heart and nothing else. Most people at a young age have involved themselves in a toxic relationship that they knew was not good for them from the start, which is what the message is trying to convey.

Metaphor “You were red, and you liked me because I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky, then you decided purple just wasn’t for you. ” This whole line is a metaphor in itself, saying that they are both colors. However, it is used in this song to show that they were both complete opposites, and when they became invested with each other, they begin to mix, creating her “lilac sky” because blue and red make purple. When he saw the lilac color (her new personality), he decided he did not like it and left. This metaphor basically conveys the main meaning of the song in a brief metaphorical way.

Metaphor “You're ripped at every edge, but you're a masterpiece. ” As the song goes on, you see how in love she becomes with him. This line is saying that she knows he is “ripped at every edge” (torn up mentally and physically), but yet she still sees beauty in everything that he does. The purpose of this was to show deeply invested she was in him, and to show that no matter what he would show to her or do, she would still continue to fall even harder for him.

Hyperbole “Everything is grey. ” Everything is not actually grey, but it used as an exaggeration to show “grey”, or sad and dark, both his and her world is. Grey is a very dull color, which can represent both the dark path that has consumed his life making him “devoid of color”, as she states later in her song. The all consuming grey color also continues with his dark and mysterious life style that is given throughout the whole song, playing into the whole message of how he is emotionally and physically unstable.

Simile “You’re dripping like a saturated sunrise. ” At this point in the song, she is just beginning to see how dark and twisted he really is. The saturated sunrise is used to represent both his color and her color (red and blue), and the verb “dripping” is used to show that he is beginning to let out all his secrets, but he has not completely let everything out.

Simile “You’re spilling like an overflowing sink. ” Now, here is where he begins to “spill” everything; every dark, twisted thing about him is being let out, which is how he is “like an overflowing sink. ” This is also used to help show that he had much more baggage and damage than she realized, which in turn begins to change her.

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