Halsey 05/03/16
I saw Halsey last night. It was an incredible experience. I think concerts are some of the most amazing and beautiful experiences a human being can do and try. She was perfect. Honestly I’m gonna say how it all was. I wanna be honest, before 8.30 pm it was all awful. I spent the day waiting in line under the rain, and when I got into the place it was a mess. My mom and I weren’t close because of the crowd and honestly I didn’t want her to be in the middle if she got hurt or something. After a while I started panicking. I said to myself: “whatever, it’s just anxiety for the concert”. But it was real, I was having panic attacks. So when the opening band played I moved to the left to see if I felt better, less in the middle. It kinda helped. All the bitchy people didn’t make better the whole situation though. Yes, there were lots of them. Because of all of this, when Halsey arrived I didn’t even feel surprised. But I realized that she actually was there after a few songs, and it felt so great. Her voice made all my negative thoughts go away. She made everything better. I didn’t care if I had been annoyed, tired, sick until that moment. The concert itself was wonderful, she even was voiceless, yet she sang so good. And she made us feel connected with her. So this was one of the better nights of my life. Thank you Halsey, I love you so much. Hope you come back to Italy soon. 💘 @se7enteenblack
26/01/26
I saw Halsey three nights ago in Berlin, for the back to badlands tour, almost exactly ten years after the first time I saw her. Even if me and my girlfriend arrived one hour before opening, we managed to get pretty close to the stage, on the left. It was almost the same position where I was at my first Halsey concert.
It was an amazing, outstanding concert and experience. First of all, for maybe the first time ever, I felt no anxiety at all at a concert, either for how many people there were or for the sound too loud. I think it's cause I was with my girlfriend and I feel so safe with her but also I finally wore earplugs and it helped with not feeling overwhelmed and not having ears ringing after.
So, seeing Halsey again after 9 years and hearing live the same album I fell in love with 11 years ago was an ethereal experience. I cried when she'd play my favorite Badlands songs, the songs that helped me cope with life at that time, that resonated the most with me: Ghost, Drive, Hurricane, Gasoline, Haunting. I felt so emotional during Is there somewhere, remembering the first concert and especially when she played this song.
I screamed so fucking loud during Nightmare, a song I love so much and never heard live. All the other songs from other albums were amazing and it felt so great to hear them live for the first time too.
She was so beautiful, energetic, connected with the audience, made us laugh, cry, scream. The encore songs were beautiful but tbh she could've played anything and I'd be happy.
I can't believe I got to experience all of this, in a new city for me, with my amazing girlfriend, a day before her birthday. It was a fantastic trip.
I'm not sorry I fell in love tonight the other night.
Thank you H, hope to see you soon again, in Italy or wherever
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