Halsey isn’t as close to releasing new music as she’d like to be.

The “Closer” singer hinted that her record label was preventing her from working on a new album due to the commercial performance of her most recent effort, The Great Impersonator , which was released in October 2024.

“I can’t make an album right now—I’m not allowed to,” the singer told Zane Lowe during an Apple Music interview released Sept. 18. “That’s the reality, because The Great Impersonator didn't perform the way they thought it was going to.”

But Halsey (real name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane ) defended the project, arguing that it was unrealistic to expect all of her works to perform the same way as her 2020 album Manic .

“If I'm being honest with you, the [ Great Impersonator ] album sold 100,000

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