Halsey Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (Colored Vinyl, Clear Vinyl) paper Del Rey's loudest detractors criticized

Del Rey's loudest detractors criticized her music as a hollow

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albeit in a poppier vein that balances neatly between neo-soul and adult contemporary

AC/DC actually made their sound denser on its sophomore effort

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Halsey Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (Colored Vinyl, Clear Vinyl) paper Del Rey's loudest detractors criticizedHalsey opens Hopeless Fountain Kingdom by reading a passage from William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, a sign that she's intent on achieving grand things with her second album. The time is right for a great leap forward. Badlands, her 2014 debut, established Halsey as a possible contender for Lorde's brooding throne, but she received her breakthrough singing on the Chainsmokers' smash 2016 single "Closer." Both events inform Hopeless Fountain Kingdom,