Singer Halsey drops cover for her next album, aims to celebrate pregnant and postpartum bodies

Two-time Grammy Award nominee Halsey and her screenwriter
boyfriend, Alev Aydin are set to release
their fourth studio album, ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’. The album is
produced by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

 The album will drop on August 27, 2021.

The bisexual singer on Wednesday posted the album cover art
on her Instagram account. The album cover shows her wearing a crown and sitting
on a golden throne with a baby.

“This album is a concept album about the joys and horrors of
pregnancy and childbirth,” the singer said in the caption of the image.

“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!” she added in the caption.

Halsey had announced their pregnancy with their boyfriend in
January this year.

“Surprise!” Halsey had written in the caption of the photo
of their baby bump on Instagram at the time.

Halsey has been a vocal activist for people living with
bipolar disorder as well as endometriosis, a disease where the tissues that
line the inside of the uterus is instead present outside of the uterus. The singer had also opened up in a 2016 interview given to Rolling Stone about their
miscarriage before a performance a year earlier and how she still onstage
despite that.

“It’s the angriest performance that I’ve ever done in my
life. I want to be a mom more than I want to be a pop star. More than I want to
be anything in the world,” she had said

The singer has also been open about her fertility struggles,
telling The Guardian last year that the miscarriage made her feel
“inadequate.”