You should check out her music's lyrics too! Her song more is so beautifully sad and evokes so much emotion and the way they did the sound in the bad ground to sound like an ultrasound is so good!

Rorschach is pronounced Roar-Shack in American English and Roar-Shock in British English

@Kadi Hunter can i ask why this is important to you?

Do you have any tips on writing better poetry?

First of all you judgemental b, if you can't even pronounce her name it's HALSEY AKA ACRONYM OF ASHLEY. THIS IS POINTLESS 😂😂😂😂😂 GO thru something dummy

and now she's about to have a baby!!! I'm so happy for her

@@elizabeth_b we all are ❤

It might be because, with music, the artist doesn't always write their own songs. You could be talented with singing or instruments, but still be a terrible or messy writer.

@@zakle3805 she writes her own lyrics ... You should check out her song called clementine, the lyrics are seriously amazing.

@@oceaness1583 Clementine is my favourite song of hers🥺

I think its due to the youtubers coming in the poetry book game but I agree. I feel like Songwriters are wayy more capable of writing poetry. Lou Reed and PJ Harvey are my favorite artists who are a good example of this

@@manvysings thats amazing! She really proves how good of a songwriter she is through that song!

Great point!

I wish she had had a third watermelon poem that fit the theme of phases of life

@@RachelOates i think the first one can be interpreted about her miscarriage and sex and the second one is mainly about sex so that may be why both are included

Is a Chelsea Smile anything like a Glasgow Smile? Apparently.

i think it would have been smart to have one at the very beginning and have one at the very end, kinda tying the book together and to a close. I think Summer Fruits would have been a sweet ending

That’s one of the reasons why I like Halsey’s book so much. It shows that, even if not the most technically-sound and unique form-wise, you can still write some really good work if you just put the effort in, which Gabbie just refuses to do. (Which also serves as the most frustrating part of Gabbie’s books- she has a few poems in them that show she has such amazing potential and ideas, so it’s not like she can’t write good poetry, she just chooses not to because she knows her fans will buy it either way)

Look, different strokes for different folks right? I know it's fun and popular to dogpile Gabbie Hanna at all times for a whole lot of people, but there's nothing terribly egregious about her book. I like to call that sub genre of poetry basic white girl shower thoughts, and I think it's valid in spite of being vain and a bit childish linguistically(and isn't the blurb on the book stating that it's about feeling like an adult and a child at the same time? I would think childish writing would be a more authentic way to relay that feeling) because I think it's a bit elitist to gatekeep art from those who aren't very good at it or are just starting out, basically getting angry that they're seeing if someone is willing to buy it or if they're proud of it and want to publish it somewhere. The get good or get out mentality isn't helping create better art, it's discouraging people from even trying. There's definitely an audience for basic white girl shower thoughts, even outside of her own audience. Makes up a significant chunk of pinterest. Gabbie Hanna isn't a very good person, I get it. Toxic to the people around her. But her creative work is not really hurting anyone, and a lot of it isn't even that bad considering she probably hasn't been doing it for very long, and no one would be bashing her poetry if she wasn't already so disliked on this platform. And no, I don't care for her either, I wouldn't want someone like her in my life. But I'm also not going to jump on every goddamn Gabbie Hanna bandwagon just cause there's blood in the water. She can't do anything right by people, and they're watching her every move for the sole reason of finding fault in it and tearing her down over it. Even when it's a harmless fucking poetry book with some shower thoughts and doodles.

@@KattReen have you read Gabbie’s books at all? I have. In the first ones she wrote a poem about how she has ocd just because she likes to rearrange her pans so they’re organized in a row, and another poem where she writes a narrative pretending like she’s gonna self-harm (with some extremely triggering language) and then it turns out to be a fake out joke of her cutting her hair (and I don’t care about whatever excuses she had for that, it’s clear she was rewriting history because this is the only reading you can have of the work by itself), and a “poem” (read: a rambling mess) making a joke out of racism and discrimination and comparing it to colors of dog breeds. In the second one she has a poem that she has gone on record to say is about the harmful effects of homophobia but in it she heavily compares gay people to monsters and animals, and she wrote another poem about a girl with bulimia but calls the girls names like “a pretty bag of bones”, which again, is very triggering language to people with eating disorders. So yeah, her poems are harmful and that alone is enough to “dogpile” her. Fuck. People aren’t upset at her for her books because it’s fun or trendy or whatever the fuck. People are angry about her work because it has all the makings to be good and actually worth something, but she won’t put in the effort so it comes out dull and lifeless at best, insensitive and borderline-bigotted at worse. Not to mention the fact she’s charging money for it, and her schemes to get people to buy as many copies as possible (multiple covers, multiple versions, giving special attention on social media to fans who preordered multiple copies, etc), It’ll be one thing if she’s putting it out for free, but as soon as you start charging money for your work, the public has every right to criticize however they like. Add to that how, despite how you personally describe her work, she has gone on record numerous times to claim how deep and misunderstood her work is and that we’re not taking the time to fully “appreciate it”, when said work in question includes such classics as “link: in bio” and “I lost my credit card and called the helpline and the lady on the phone asked for the credit card number but I couldn’t tell her because I lost my credit card”. Yeah, people are definitely gonna take the piss to show the difference between her ego and her output. Shit, she wrote a poem in Braille dedicated to her blind friend molly but the Braille wasn’t raised which is how blind people read Braille! Now it’s just some useless dots on a page and I’m sure there’s at least one typo in there somewhere given the lack of effort placed elsewhere in the book (including the fact that one of her illustrations in the latest book has a major mistake in it that even her fans caught). So, yes, Gabbie’s books are worth all the criticism, and even if they weren’t, everyone gets criticism. If she can’t deal with it, she should have done a limited run of her book with an independent publisher and released it on etsy, not a worldwide mass release. If you put something out into the world and charge for it, well, people are allowed to voice how they feel about it. Reviews exist for a reason.

That's a mood, also shows she's not read poetry. (Also I'm sorry if I'm going crazy & you're not but are you japansace?)

@@BooksandBuns Say it again for the people in the back!!! 💯

Halsey has actually been very open about suffering from endometriosis which is why I think she makes a lot of references like those in summer fruit. She did also had a miscarriage because of that in the past so I can definitely see that being a possible meaning

I thought that's what the dead leaves referred to. Very emotional and raw. However, lovely.

Her song "More" off her latest album Manic is incredibly heartbreaking and the production of the last chorus with the machine beeping and sounds underwater and far away as if you're the the baby inside her chokes me up every time I hear it

She actually performed live while going through a miscarriage which breaks my heart everytime I think about it

Yeah she had several miscarriages including one while she performed! Thankfully she's pregnant now and seems to be doing well!

I'm glad she's comfortable saying his name because for a while I was under the impression that Dan had abused her and not someone else.

can you fill me in, what has happened?

ive been looking for this comment!

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@@carmenq7339 huh?

Yeeees pls. I would love that video.

I would love to see this as well!

@@carmenq7339 sacrilege

She actually is a beginner poet

Lovely analysis but I just recalled an episode of Rugrats where Chuckie thought he'd give birth to a watermelon because he swallowed its seeds.

i love your analysis

I always thought it was cruel the way parents enjoy making kids scared of watermelon seeds

I love Nightmare

I haven't listened to her in a while but I just remember being a 5th grader and getting the first sound of such poetic lyrics with her music and adoring every song like that

what about the transphobic tweets?

@Joshua Silvis Those were things she tweeted when she was a kid. It wasn’t ok, and she’s apologized for it. She has also since been an advocate for the trans community, calling out people who purposefully misgender them and even the owner of Victoria’s Secret days after she did his show and his transphobia came out. It’s not ok what she did but she did apologize, and then showed that she grew up by putting in effort to help the people she hurt.

@@joshuasivils2199 I'm sure you never said anything problematic in public or hurt anyone's feelings when you were 14 years old. Oh, you did? Well off to the guillotine then, you piece of trash, because there's no fathomable possibility that an adult is not the exact same version of themselves as they were as a literal child.

florence + the machine is the whole band, lol. like, i get what yer saying, esp being specified with the parentheses, but still kinda weird to attribute the book to the whole band.

is it good

Yessss!!!

Oh I already know that’s a masterpiece!

pretty sure the last syllable is zee tho not see

It should be zee not see and also people w different accents pronounce hall differently

@@meretj9004 You're just not saying it fast enough. Let the words run together, the 's' turns into a 'z'.

@@Gulgathydra yeah it does

Lol I say ‘hell sea’

I was equally distracted by Rachel's hair. I am loving that color!

I am working on the video ☺️

Glad to have you (still) here, thank you!!

Me too

Thanks!

Omg I NEED Rachel to do a review on this movie, it was so freaking good!!

@@lianaivan1462 agreed. And I think Rachel would have an interesting opinion on it.

OMG ACTUALLY I DIDNT KNOW HOW MUCH I NEEDED THIS TILL NOW. I learnt abt this movie from Amanda the Jedi and I've been meaning to see it ever since

@@psychopathetic5341 yes! Another Amanda fan! It’s a really good movie, but if you have a hard time with intense topics and violence, you might want to watch with caution.

I have been hyped about this movie since I stumbled across the trailer months ago and I'm dying to watch it but right now its only available to buy because it's still in theaters and I'm never keen on buying a movie I've never seen so I'm making myself wait until I can rent it.

Anaphora is actually a greek word which is why it tends to be difficult to pronounce it in other languages, but your method is great!

@@lindat8168 I don't think that has much to do with it, acrobat is also a Greek word too and it's easy to pronounce haha. Also not sure about "other languages", anaphora is called "anaphore" in french and is very easy to pronounce. French doesn't have that weird thing where you put emphasis on one syllable and it changes how you pronounce all of the vowels in the word. It has other weird things ofc, but in the case of "anaphore", it's pronounced exactly how it's written.

@@Orynae Ancient Greek is quite literally impossible to pronounce, even for Greeks today. They do not properly know how to translate or pronounce a lot of words because it’s very different. The way you pronounce many Greek words is probably wrong

@@Orynae Also my grammar sucks at the moment because I’m running on very little sleep.

@@vampyrekyng_lex it's "wrong" for ancient greek, sure, but I'd argue that's not really relevant to the accepted English pronunciation (which is what we're talking about for "anaphora"). The "correct" English pronunciation of Ares is "air-eez" even though in Ancient Greek it's something like "ahr-ess" I think. 🤷 Modern English pronounciation doesn't follow Old English pronunciation either. The correct pronunciation of "name" isn't nah-m just because that's how it was in the "original" :p

That’s how I felt too!! Just melting away.

When you are done watching the video would you mind sharing your thoughts about the book? I think it would be very interesting to hear other people’s opinions

I'd also like to hear your thoughts

​@@lauren6015 @Juli sure! So, very in brief I was a bit disappointed by it. I'm a huge fan of hers and have been reading her poetry since she posted them on Tumblr and really admire her songwriting capacities. I've deeply enjoyed both the message and the delivery of some poems in this collection (the lighthouse, the painter, i want to be a writer, virus, forever...is a long time, just to name a few): they were straight to the point, the imagery left me ecstatic and the rhythmic choice was impeccable. However, most of this collection felt unfinished. The poems are not bad per se, but they lack "something" that was present in the excellent poems of these collection, and I feel like their juxtaposition without contextualization harmed my enjoyment of it. I really appreciated her vulnerability and courage to treat these themes. What did you think of it?

@@celestegobbi1704 I haven't actually read the book but based on this video, I like what I hear so far. Although Rachel criticised the watermelon poems for being too similar, they actually reminded me of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. That collection was originally two seperate collections, one featuring poems from an innocent perspective, with the others from an experienced perspective. I really like the idea that Halsey* may have been inspired by that collection*, although I have no idea if that was her intention. I might actually invest in her book because I'd be interested to whether the standard is as high as I've seen in this video.

Reallt? I always heard and say it as Shark

Ro(schwa) sch^x

Roar-shah*cat hissing noise*

What time is that at)?