Music and film blur into one another in If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power, a visual companion built around Halsey's fourth studio album rather than a conventional script.
What is If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power about?
Rather than following a traditional plot structure, the project uses a pregnant queen as its central figure and lets her interior state drive the imagery — fear, tenderness, and rage bleeding into one another across a run of connected sequences set to the album's tracklist. Fantasy and horror elements sit alongside musical numbers, so a scene can shift from something tender to something unsettling within a few shots. The result plays less like a feature with a beginning and end and more like a song cycle given a body, a crown, and a set of rooms to move through.
About the cast
Halsey anchors the project as its central figure, with Sasha Lane and Brian Caspe among the names sharing the screen, alongside Petr Barvik, Michal Bednář, Jan Beránek, Vuk Čelebič, and Jakub Černý. The cast list mixes an established recording artist with performers drawn from the production's European shoot, giving the piece a look that doesn't sit neatly inside one country's filmmaking style.
Context & significance
Directed by Colin Tilley, a name closely associated with music-video and visual-album work, the piece sits at the crossroads of pop production and genre filmmaking, borrowing horror's imagery and fantasy's world-building to dramatize an album rather than illustrate it literally. Its score comes from a production team known for atmospheric, unsettling soundscapes, which shapes the tone as much as any dialogue does. The format puts it closer to a long-form music film than a standard drama, a lane a handful of pop artists have tried but few have committed to for a full runtime.
Watching If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power on Ktime
This title streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the album's storyline without losing the original vocal performances. As with everything on K-Time, watching requires only a free account login, while the description and details here stay open to browse. The service's Farsi-first design — menus, search, and recommendations built around the Iranian diaspora — makes a genre-bending project like this easy to find alongside more conventional series.