Halsey can be tricky. The tour she opened up in L.A. this week is ostensibly intended to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of her “Badlands” album — and the ostensibly there is not meant to indicate that the artist doesn’t fulfill that stated aim; indeed, she performs that 2015 debut in its entirety. But really, what it comes off feeling like is a full career retrospective, one that just happens to have a serious skew toward one record in particular. She accomplishes this by doing a show that extends to two hours and 25 minutes and includes 30 numbers, so that this might be the show of your Halseyian dreams,
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