Appearing in a cover shoot for The Advocate, popular artist Halsey has paid tribute to David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
The shoot, the magazine reveals, was the artist’s own idea.
“She was thrilled to pay homage to the legends that inspired her,” representatives of The Advocate have shared.
They also reveal that the 25-year-old, who also goes under the name of Ashley Frangipane, did her own makeup, emulating David Bowie’s own “Life On Mars’ era style with unerring accuracy.
“This is something I want to do,” the Frangipane shared of the images. “As a performer, I have looked up to or looked into those men – looking for a form of identity building for so long. It never really occurred to me that I shouldn’t.”
Halsey’s narrative of an artist as one built upon questions arising from bisexual identity, one which would not be too hard to parallel with David Bowie’s own Ziggy Stardust era persona.
“I’m gay and always have been,” David Bowie famously remarked to Melody Maker magazine in 1972, “even when I was David Jones.”
When his interviewer then remarked that Bowie appeared to be wearing what they thought to be a woman’s dress, David was quick to correct them.
“Oh dear,” he replied, “You must understand that it’s not a woman’s. It’s a man’s dress.”
The 25-year-old also identifies as being bi-racial and has publicly detailed her experiences suffering from bipolar disorder.
Halsey also appears as Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger during the shoot but it was Bob Dylan who inspired to pick up the guitar.
“[Dylan] is a poet who has a way of expressing his emotion in a way that makes people feel something,” she shared. “I still don’t really consider myself a very good singer. I’m a poet. And me being a singer is a symptom of me being a writer.”
