Halsey Gets Kinky as a Dominatrix in NSFW, BDSM-Inspired Music Video for 'Safeword' — Watch!

Mar. 15, 2025

Halseyis showing off their “wild style.”

On Thursday, Feb. 27, the alt-pop star, 30, released her new Ramones-meets-Bikini Kill single"Safeword,“along with an accompanying NSFW, BDSM-inspired music video.

Halsey.Halsey/YouTube

Halsey/YouTube

As the raucous, riot-grrrl-tinged track continues, Halsey turns into a dominatrix, kicking a man in a leather mask on the floor.

Then Halsey becomes the one who’s dominated as a rope is tied around her body while a leather-masked dom spanks them.

“Safeword” comes just months after Halsey released their fifth studio albumThe Great Impersonator.

Ahead of its release, the “Ego” musician impersonated the musicians who inspired the tracks for the album, includingStevie NickstoDolly PartontoBruce SpringsteenandKate Bush.

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Earlier this month, Halsey announced their2025 For My Last Trick tourwithan Instagram Reel, where the “Without Me” starred in a spoof of her canceled “funeral.” (They revealed earlier in 2024 that they werediagnosed with lupus SLE and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorderin 2022 and grappled with the possibility of death.)

It will feature several special guests including Del Water Gap, The Warning,Evanescence, Alvvays, Hope Tala, Sir Chloe, Royel Otis, Flowerovlove, Magdalena Bay, and Alemeda, appearing on select dates.

source: people.com