{"id":48674,"date":"2025-10-08T22:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/halle-bailey-announces-debut-solo-album-love-or-something-like-it\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:04:35","slug":"halle-bailey-announces-debut-solo-album-love-or-something-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/halle-bailey-announces-debut-solo-album-love-or-something-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Bailey Announces Debut Solo Album &#8216;Love? Or Something Like It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The long-awaited LP tells &#8220;a story of first love, heartbreak, and everything that comes after,&#8221; the musician said<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/halle-bailey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halle-bailey\" data-tag=\"halle-bailey\">Halle Bailey<\/a> is finally set to release her debut solo album. The musician revealed Wednesday that her long-awaited LP, <em>Love? Or Something Like It<\/em>, will arrive Oct. 24.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBailey announced the news with a short teaser clip on Instagram that showed her decked out in an elaborate red dress and looking dreamily at the camera. Over swooning orchestral instrumentation, Bailey introduced the story of the album by saying: \u201cOnce upon a time, there was a young girl that believed in love. She believed everyone belonged to someone, soul for soul. All she ever wanted in life was to find the truest form of love. Was it ever possible? And here\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn an accompanying caption, Bailey described <em>Love? Or Something Like It <\/em>as \u201ca story of first love, heartbreak, and everything that comes after.\u201d She added: \u201cThis one means everything to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBailey has yet to share a full track list for the record, though she has dropped two singles this year, \u201cBack and Forth\u201d and \u201cBraveface.\u201d It\u2019s also unclear if the album will feature any of the other solo songs Bailey has released over the past few years, like last year\u2019s \u201cBecause I Love You\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halle-bailey-releases-single-in-your-hands-music-video-1234988338\/\">\u201cIn Your Hands,\u201d <\/a>as well as her Grammy-nominated 2023 debut solo single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/doja-cat-halle-bailey-bebe-rexha-songs-you-need-to-know-1234801062\/\">\u201cAngel.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPrior to going solo, Bailey and her sister Chloe released two albums as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chloe-x-halle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chloe-x-halle\" data-tag=\"chloe-x-halle\">Chloe x Halle<\/a>: 2018\u2019s <em>The Kids Are Alright <\/em>and 2020\u2019s <em>Ungodly Hour<\/em>. And while Bailey has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halle-bailey-dropping-debut-ep-by-end-2023-1234818769\/\">working on her solo debut<\/a> for several years, she was also busy with several major film projects. In 2023, she starred as Ariel in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/halle-bailey-little-mermaid-trailer-reaction-1234702134\/\">live-action remake<\/a> of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halle-bailey-little-mermaid-part-of-your-world-1234724311\/\">The Little Mermaid<\/a><\/em>, while she also appeared in the coming-of-age drama <em>The Line<\/em> and Blitz Bazawule\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-features\/the-color-purple-director-blitz-bazawule-golden-globes-snub-beyonce-choreographer-fatima-robinson-1234935956\/\">adaptation of <em>The Color Purple <\/em>musical<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/halle-bailey-pharrell-williams-michel-gondry-musical-1234999187\/\">supposed to appear<\/a> in Pharrell and Michel Gondry\u2019s ambitious musical project <em>Atlantis<\/em>, but the pair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pharrell-williams-michel-gondry-biopic-shelved-1235260935\/\">decided to shelve project indefinitely<\/a> while editing. Meanwhile, Bailey is slated to star alongside Reg\u00e9-Jean Page in Kat Coiro\u2019s upcoming rom-com, <em>Italianna<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/halle-bailey-debut-solo-album-love-or-something-like-it-1235443564\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited LP tells &#8220;a story of first love, heartbreak, and everything that comes after,&#8221; the musician said Halle Bailey is finally set to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}