{"id":71573,"date":"2026-08-28T17:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/halsey-concert-movie-the-girl-in-the-tower-is-a-raging-rock-show\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:21:34","slug":"halsey-concert-movie-the-girl-in-the-tower-is-a-raging-rock-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/halsey-concert-movie-the-girl-in-the-tower-is-a-raging-rock-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Halsey Concert Movie &#8216;The Girl in the Tower&#8217; Is a Raging Rock Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/halsey-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_halsey-2\" data-tag=\"halsey-2\">Halsey<\/a> doesn\u2019t quite consider herself a pop star these days. It\u2019s a status she cemented about a decade ago, with \u201cCloser,\u201d then \u201cBad at Love,\u201d and then again with \u201cWithout Me.\u201d Even then, she felt a little out of a place and a bit rough around the edges by pop standards. Hanging out in New Jersey and Brooklyn isn\u2019t the best crash course for red carpets and awards shows. Lately, Halsey feels about as connected to the label as she does with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/halsey-badlands-anniversary-tour-interview-1235412996\/\">version of herself who made them<\/a> \u2014 which is to say very little. \u2018Rock star,\u2019 on the other hand, seems to fit perfectly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHalsey assembled an evocative rock show spanning five studio albums and an emotional hurricane in <em>The Girl in the Tower<\/em>, her first official concert film. The 75-minute show was shot across multiple performances on the singer-songwriter\u2019s recent European festival tour. The intensity of the crowds vary from stop to stop (Czech came ready to rage at Rock for People in June), but Halsey persistently wrings herself out. Sweat, blood, tears. It\u2019s all left on these stages in the film, which premiered on YouTube on the fifth anniversary of her fourth studio album, <em>If I Can\u2019t Have Love, I Want Power.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Halsey - The Girl In The Tower (Live)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zdJYdfkOJeg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFive years ago, Halsey used that record to take a shot at the misconceptions of who she is as an artist. <em>If I Can\u2019t Have Love, I Want Power<\/em> gripped tightly to what remained of their sense of control. They surrendered to the ways in which motherhood would both pull them back from the edge. Both love and power could come from within them, they suggested, but not without fear and a certain perseverance that doesn\u2019t masquerade as bravery. Halsey recruited Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to pump the record full of blistering rock production to match its gritty content.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHalsey created a film for<em> If I Can\u2019t Have Love, I Want Power<\/em>, too. The release, which shares a title with the album, featured barely any dialogue. It communicated fantasy, horror, and searing despondence through the music. With thousands of people packing the festival grounds in front of her, Halsey takes a more theatrical approach with <em>The Girl in the Tower. <\/em>The show is split into four sections: The Mother, The Maiden, The Mage, and They\u2019re Raging at Me. The set list spans her 14-year career, with even the most pop-forward selections filtered through thunderous percussion and earsplitting guitars.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module 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\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe girl in the tower once cried out for hours, then planted a garden to pick herself flowers,\u201d Halsey said in a voiceover at the start of the film. \u201cBut came summer\u2019s poison, it turned the fruit sour. Her teeth met the flesh. She begins to devour. Then back, like it never had left, came her power. Delighted and louder. They\u2019re raging at me.\u201d From there, Halsey rages right back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFire blazes around the edge of the stage as they launch into \u201cNightmare\u201d at the top of the show. The Mother portion of the set opens with \u201cI Am Not a Woman, I\u2019m a God,\u201d and in minutes Halsey brings the crowd to worship. The torch she lights at the start of \u201cCastle,\u201d a roaring cut from her debut album <em>Badlands<\/em>, leads them into battle. However hard they were going wasn\u2019t hard enough \u2014 Halsey stopped \u201cCastle\u201d midway through and made them run it back. They needed to jump higher, headband harder, scream louder. The final chorus explodes with everything they have left in them and Halsey follows it with pristine vocal runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHalsey introduces The Maiden with \u201cDog Years,\u201d an arresting selection from <em>The Great Impersonator<\/em>. She performs the track with a thick chain leash around her throat. It connects to the stage, locking her in place at the top of a staircase. She finds control even while trapped and breaks away with \u201cYou Asked for This\u201d and \u201cExperiment on Me,\u201d which whips the crowd into a frenzy with bodies slamming into each other in massive circle pits as she demands for them to open it wider. She continues with a rock version of \u201cCloser\u201d that serves as an apt reminder that it was always Halsey who made that song great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules 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\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThey reach for magic during The Mage portion, which opens with \u201cThe Lighthouse,\u201d a spellbinding record that casts Halsey as a siren luring sailors to their death. Her other siren songs, then, are \u201cColors,\u201d \u201cWithout Me,\u201d and \u201cHurricane.\u201d More like cautionary tales, they\u2019re each interrogations of power and the inherent destruction of savior complexes. Halsey has always had a preoccupation with embedding narratives into their albums, but their storytelling really comes to life when they break those projects apart and assemble a set list as weighty as the one she created for <em>The Girl in the Tower<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHalsey mixes the sharp ideas she wrote on <em>Badlands <\/em>as an uneasy teenager with reflections from later albums that came from wisdom  and experience \u2014 whether from life or from the spotlight of stardom \u2014 but that didn\u2019t necessarily leave her with thicker skin. There\u2019s her fight for control on <em>If I Can\u2019t Have Love, I Want Power, <\/em>but also her dissection of life, death, and legacy on <em>The Great Impersonator<\/em>, the record she thought might be her last offering as she battled a health crisis. She puts them together like puzzle pieces she assembles \u2014 not for the sake of figuring out herself, but to erase any confusion anyone else might have about her at this point in her career, six years removed from her last Top 40 hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBefore the stretch of performances that shaped<em> The Girl in the Tower, <\/em>Halsey completed her For My Last Trick Tour, a true career triumph built around <em>The Great Impersonator<\/em>. She wanted to immortalize the tour on film, but the show was ultimately cancelled due to production logistics. <em>The Girl in the Tower <\/em>isn\u2019t the next best thing, but an entirely different mission with an entirely different audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFestivals come with the challenge of winning over viewers who had no idea what they were walking into. The concert film takes on a similar role. Halsey would have been anointed with the rock star title years ago had she been releasing concert films this whole time. Instead, she locked her focus on fortifying her command of the stage and the crowds that gather there.\u00a0<\/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\tThey conclude <em>The Girl in the Tower <\/em>with \u201cLonely Is the Muse,\u201d a burning and ferocious rock track that might actually be the greatest song they\u2019ve ever recorded. It\u2019s the perfect ending for the final section of the show, They\u2019re Raging at Me. \u201cI was built from special pieces that I learned how to unscrew,\u201d she sings. \u201cAnd I can always reassemble to fit perfectly for you, or anybody that decides that I\u2019m of use.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Girl in the Tower isn\u2019t caged in. It\u2019s a vantage point from which she can see everything \u2014 and everyone \u2014 within her reach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/halsey-concert-movie-the-girl-in-the-tower-review-1235616614\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halsey doesn\u2019t quite consider herself a pop star these days. 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