By james art
Halsey celebrated Halloween by taking her fans through the decades — and playing a rock version of it Wastelands favorite, “Flowers.” On Thursday night, the singer headlined a performance for Amazon Music Live in Los Angeles, where she performed both songs from The Great Imitator and reimagined versions of her fan favorites.
The pop star opened the show dressed as a circus conductor with a live debut of the title track from her album. She took it back to the seventies for the show’s first set, performing a soft disco version of it Hopeless kingdom of the fountain song “Bad At Love” and her Fleetwood Mac-inspired “Panic Attack”.
Then came the eighties when she performed “Hometown” and manic“Graveyard” for a new American style performance while wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
For the nineties portion of the show, she played ‘Ego’, a grunge version of ‘You Should Be Sad’ and debuted an all-new nineties rock rendition of ‘Colors’, with a new bridge for the 2015 song.
Halsey ended her show with the 2000s by performing “Walls Could Talk” and her Britney Spears sample “Lucky” before ending her set with “Without Me.”
“What I didn’t foresee was what this song would mean to me and to my career and to so many of us,” Halsey told the crowd at manic a song. “Tell you what, I didn’t expect it. Every time I play it, I feel like I’m in a dream. No more nightmares, just dreams.
The performance celebrated her album The Great Imitatorwhich Rolling Stone described as her “rawest, darkest” music ever. Halsey also performed concerts in New York and Austin over the weekend, where she performed “Roman Holiday” for the first time in five years and sang “Lonely is the Muse” for the first time.
Halsey is the second artist to hit the Amazon Music Live stage this fall. During his live show last week, Big Sean debuted songs from his new album, Better me than youand welcomed rapper YG and his partner Jhené Aiko to the stage. J Balvin is scheduled to perform next Thursday.