Halsey channels male rock legends like Bowie and Jagger in a new photo shoot and says her 'gender identity has always been super fluid'

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  • Halsey was recently photographed dressed as rock icons David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan for the February issue of the Advocate.

  • She selected each artist for personal reasons, and said she chose male artists because she considers herself "an androgynous performer."

  • "I don't identify as nonbinary or gender-fluid. I don't personally feel like I'm at the point in my life where I'm prepared to identify that way," she told the magazine. "Will that change? Possibly. I don't know. But I've never felt any reason to change the way that I refer to my gender identity."

  • "My gender identity has always been super, super fluid," she added.

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Halsey recently dressed as rock icons David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan to celebrate androgyny and fluidity.

The 25-year-old "Clementine" singer conceived the photo shoot for her cover story in the February issue of the Advocate.

"I've always really identified with being an androgynous performer," she told the magazine.

"I don't really see females dressing in real drag very often in editorial print. This is something I want to do," she continued. "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 did her own makeup for the shoot, and carefully selected each artist for personal reasons: "Dylan was the reason that I picked up a guitar," she explained, while "Jimi was a really important figure in my life growing up."

"My dad's Black and my dad loves rock music," she told the magazine. "As the face of rock music has changed over the course of the past couple of decades, there have been periods of time where rock-and-roll or punk rock or emo rock or whatever it is — areas of subcultures that haven't been necessarily all-inclusive to people of color."

Halsey, who is bisexual, also opened up about how she perceives her own gender identity.

"I don't identify as nonbinary or gender-fluid. I don't personally feel like I'm at the point in my life where I'm prepared to identify that way," she said. "Will that change? Possibly. I don't know. But I've never felt any reason to change the way that I refer to my gender identity."

"My gender identity has always been super, super fluid," she added.

Fans are already fawning over the photoshoot online.

Halsey released her third studio album, "Manic," on Friday. Read her full interview with the Advocate here.

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