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10 Pop Stars Turned Poets
Pop stars doing poetry: Drake, Jewel, Lana Del Rey and more.
“He would stare at the space between my eyebrows/too cowardly to make eye contact/and say/’I’m going to f–king kill you.’/And I would believe him.” As evident from the domestic violence tale “Lighthouse,” Halsey ’s 2020 poetry collection I Would Leave Me If I Could often made for harrowing reading, with the “Closer” singer addressing her experiences of sexual assault, miscarriage and bipolar disorder. It was the “Foolish Games” singer who alerted publishers to the fact that the two art forms needn’t be mutually exclusive when her 1998 collection, A Night Without Armor, sold an astonishing two million copies: it’s reportedly still America’s best-selling poetry book of all time. Comprised of words “not beautiful enough, too bloody and ragged” to grace her majestic discography, alt-pop’s high priestess constantly wrestles with the difference between her poetic and songwriting talents: the lyrics to the first four Florence + The Machine albums are here, too.
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