Halsey

Halsey was frustrated when critics mistook their defining single, “New Americana,” from 2015 debut BADLANDS, as an aspirational anthem rather than the intended satire of American pop culture.

But this LA-by-way-of-New Jersey songwriter (born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane in 1994) has always mingled cynicism with awe.

And in the wake of Lorde and Lana Del Rey, Halsey helped shift the outcasts and rebels towards pop’s center.