It’s 10 Years Later…
Halsey’s Badlands anniversary videos promise a return to the neon dystopia that launched her mythology. A decade after Badlands shook pop with provocative narrative ambition, Halsey is marking the milestone with a double-feature for fan favourites Drive and Gasoline, finally addressing a long-simmering cliffhanger.
Badlands Anniversary Videos
Arriving alongside the 10th anniversary edition, Badlands (Decade Edition Anthology) compiles the original album with orchestral, demo, and stripped versions. The new videos, teased as Badlands 2025, pick up ten years after the original visual arc. A tagline reads, “We never left,” suggesting a canonical sequel rather than a simple nostalgia play.
Unfinished Business
New Americana ended by hinting that Drive would follow, but the clip never materialised. That absence became fandom lore, sharpening anticipation around Drive’s imagined narrative. By pairing Drive with Gasoline, Halsey binds Badlands’ core themes of rebellion, self-repair, and spectacle into a single cinematic drop. No release date is confirmed yet.
Casting The Continuum
The project reunites Halsey with actor Tyler Posey, co-star of 2015’s Colors, threading continuity through the era’s visual world. The choice underscores how Halsey treats music videos as serialized storytelling, a pop strategy that prefigured today’s long-form rollouts by artists like The Weeknd and Billie Eilish.
Catalog In Dialogue
Since Badlands, Halsey has expanded her range across four albums, most recently 2024’s The Great Impersonator. That record earned acclaim for its stark honesty, landing on NME’s year-end lists and elevating Lonely Is The Muse. The new double-feature reframes that growth, returning to the origin point to test how Badlands reads after a decade of artistic risk.
Commerce Meets Canon
The anthology arrives August 29 and is available to pre-order now. Beyond merch logic, the package invites close listening, with alternate versions mapping Badlands’ melodic DNA. It is the kind of archival move that deepens fan investment while documenting how songs evolve from skeleton to spectacle. For Halsey, it also resets the visual canon in high definition.
Looking Ahead
Halsey’s Badlands anniversary videos could set a blueprint for era revivals that feel authored, not algorithmic. If Badlands 2025 pays off the Drive mystery and expands Gasoline’s combustible imagery, it may convert a decade of speculation into a durable myth. In doing so, Halsey reclaims the slow-burn rollout, proving some pop stories age into legend.
