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Halsey Goes Full Dominatrix in Raging Video for Punk Rock Single ‘Safeword’

Halsey releases new single 'Safeword,' a rock record arriving alongside a bold music video, as first new music since 'The Great Impersonator.'

Halsey is in charge on her newly released punk rock single, “Safeword.” The record arrives alongside a video directed by Lana Jay Lackey, which features the musician walking a latex-covered figure around like a dog on a chain in one scene, using someone else as an end table in another, and then turning the tables so that she’s the one getting spanked and tied up. “Lonely Is the Muse” channels their love of Evanescence, while “Ego” is more a reflection of the time they spent growing up in New Jersey. “There’s a constant tension between the playful wit in the music and the sluggish gloom of the vocals,” Rolling Stone wrote in a review of the record.

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