Halsey Shares Tracklist To Upcoming Album ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’

Halsey has finally unveiled the tracklist to their highly-anticipated fourth studio album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. The record will consist of 13 tracks.

Halsey first announced If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power on July 7. Their fourth studio album would be a concept album about “the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth.” They elaborate on the post, “This cover image celebrates pregnant and postpartum bodies as something beautiful, to be admired. We have a long way to go with eradicating the social stigma around bodies & breastfeeding. I hope this can be a step in the right direction!” The cover photo has received an outpouring of love and support. It is arguably the best album cover in history.

After leaving fans with such a unique cover and story, Halsey took the album a few steps further. First, they went to the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they walked around for a few minutes before the grand finale of unveiling the album’s cover art. In another twist, Halsey wrote a movie, the same as the album’s title, all while pregnant. The film is a one-hour-long event playing in select IMAX theaters.

Just one week after Halsey announced their fourth studio album, they would give birth to their first child, Ender Ridley Aydin, on July 14. Halsey called the birth “rare, euphoric, and powered by love.”

On August 10, Halsey unveiled the album’s tracklist, consisting of 13 tracks and zero features. Halsey writes on Twitter that the album “had to be told entirely in their voice.”

it feels very cool to have an album with no features again. It felt like this had to be entirely from my voice, similarly to Badlands. I can’t wait for you to hear everything.

— h (@halsey) August 11, 2021

Even after revealing the track titles, Halsey participated in some fan interactions. One fan asked Halsey if their album was always meant to be a concept album, or did this perspective change once becoming pregnant? Halsey replied in the post that the album “was always supposed to be about mortality and everlasting love and our place/permanence. It was just amplified by me being pregnant.” They elaborate that themes that go hand-in-hand were also introduced in the process, such as control and body horror, and autonomy and conceit.

Weirdly enough it was always supposed to be about mortality and everlasting love and our place / permanence. It was just amplified by me being pregnant. Introduced new themes of control and body horror and autonomy and conceit. https://t.co/VNwbsVB7bi

— h (@halsey) August 11, 2021

Halsey has accomplished so much in such a short time. We could not be any more excited for their new album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, out on August 27. Fans can follow Halsey on Instagram for more updates on music and motherhood.