{"id":2078001,"date":"2025-10-08T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2078001"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:03:13","slug":"halle-bailey-is-bringing-love-heartbreak-and-everything-to-debut-album-love-or-something-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/halle-bailey-is-bringing-love-heartbreak-and-everything-to-debut-album-love-or-something-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Halle Bailey Is Bringing \u2018Love, Heartbreak, and Everything\u2019 to Debut Album \u2018Love? Or Something Like It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/halle-bailey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Halle Bailey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Halle Bailey<\/a> announced on Wednesday (Oct. 8) that she\u2019ll release her debut album <em>Love? Or Something Like It <\/em>later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her first solo full-length project is due Oct. 24 via Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. She wrote on social media that <em>Love? Or Something Like It <\/em>tells \u201ca story of first love, heartbreak, and everything that comes after\u2026. this one means everything to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a 38-second clip, <em>The Little Mermaid <\/em>actress narrates the beginning of said story while sitting in a gorgeous red tulle gown. \u201cOnce upon a time, there was a young girl that believed in love. She believed everyone belonged to someone, soul for soul. All she ever wanted in life was to find the truest form of love. Was it ever possible? And here\u2019s what happened,\u201d she says softly over swelling instrumentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead of <em>Love? Or Something Like It<\/em>, Bailey\u2019s released two solo singles in 2025 \u2014 \u201cBack and Forth\u201d and \u201cBraveface\u201d \u2014 and collaborated with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/leon-thomas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Leon Thomas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Leon Thomas<\/a> on \u201cRather Be Alone\u201d on the <em>Heel<\/em> deluxe edition of his critically acclaimed sophomore album <em>Mutt. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bailey and her sister <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/chloe-bailey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chl\u00f6e;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chl\u00f6e<\/a> have released two albums, 2018\u2019s <em>The Kids Are Alright <\/em>and 2020\u2019s <em>Ungodly Hour<\/em>, as part of their duo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/chloe-x-halle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chloe x Halle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chloe x Halle<\/a>. <em>The Kids<\/em> <em>Are Alright <\/em>earned a nomination for best urban contemporary album at the 2019 Grammy Awards, where Chloe x Halle was also up for best new artist, and <em>Ungodly Hour <\/em>earned a best progressive R&amp;B album nod at the 2021 Grammys. <em>Ungodly Hour <\/em>reached No. 16 on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard 200;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">See Bailey\u2019s debut album announcement below, and pre-save <em>Love? Or Something Like It <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.sonymusicfans.com\/campaign\/5412344504208\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadgidMJoSf5PQMWsP3FcHypZ8p3ktpVVMJl-NS4sFkF3FkKgMyBohQZaUcg0A_aem_FQQ5oxMnCmAGnjeDY-2tTA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/31XsHSx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TkcoeG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TntOHq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halle Bailey announced on Wednesday (Oct. 8) that she\u2019ll release her debut album Love? Or Something Like It later this month. Her first solo full-length project is due Oct. 24 via Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. She wrote on social media that Love? Or Something Like It tells \u201ca story of first love, heartbreak, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2078002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[362274,352590,390305,390306],"class_list":["post-2078001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-columbia-records","tag-halle-bailey","tag-parkwood-entertainment","tag-ungodly-hour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Halle-Bailey-Is-Bringing-\u2018Love-Heartbreak-and-Everything-to-Debut.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078003,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078001\/revisions\/2078003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}