his "no type" cover was the signal for me
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
I actually really like Be4uR, but remain cold to pretty much everything else he's released.
― Greer, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
this is the most thrilling song zayn released, but it still isn't enough for me. i liked it, but i don't think i need to hear it many more times, so that must mean something...
― Nourry, Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
i feel like there should be a Zayn thread just because i click on this thread because it's a One Direction thread and i'm still pretty dubious about his solo stuff
― ODD FUTURE WOLFGANG VAN HALEN ON BASS (some dude), Monday, March 7, 2016 3:57 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i wish i used bookmarks so i could dramatically remove one from this thread
― ODD FUTURE WOLFGANG VAN HALEN ON BASS (some dude), Friday, 18 March 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
sorry his solo stuff isn't good enough to give him a thread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 March 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
basically i want a Rolling Almost R&B thread where people can talk about Zayn and Nick Jonas far away from here and the R&B thread
― ODD FUTURE WOLFGANG VAN HALEN ON BASS (some dude), Friday, 18 March 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
sorry his solo stuff isn't good enough to give him a thread― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funny given how this thread started off.
― Greer, Friday, 18 March 2016 13:40 (eight years ago) link
"it's you" is my fav of the zayn crop. i kinda like "pillowtalk" too and the rest i can do without. generally disappointing, yeah.
rolling almost r&b thread is a good idea
― dyl, Friday, 18 March 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
rolling r&bleh
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 18 March 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
^^^ that has to be the title
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 18 March 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
we could prob just give zayn it's own thread, i have a hard enough time keeping up w/ the rolling threads for music i actually like
― J0rdan S., Friday, 18 March 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
rolling bootleg miguel thread
― maura, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
dunno why rolling pop isn't good enough for either zayn or jonas
am perched for a budget jeremih to pop up so i can call him jeremeh
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 18 March 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
been there done that
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 March 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
this zayn stuff isn't good but neither is 1D so
― Hey (Extended Mix), Friday, 18 March 2016 20:07 (eight years ago) link
i'm way more into the idea of zayn as a popstar than the reality of zayn as a popstar
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, 19 March 2016 01:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah :( oh well
― dyl, Saturday, 19 March 2016 06:40 (eight years ago) link
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, March 19, 2016 1:02 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this really sums up twitter culture of stanning for popstars despite continually underwhelming actual material
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 19 March 2016 10:42 (eight years ago) link
we'll always have that face i guess
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, 19 March 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
lex otm
― maura, Saturday, 19 March 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, March 19, 2016 1:29 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
why would you need it, there is more than one pretty person in the world
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 19 March 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zhane-pronounced-jah-nay-cover.jpg
leaked
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
it's better than i predicted but it also should be better.
― Nourry, Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
imo it's not very good at all
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
i appreciate some of the songs: 'befour', 'she', 'drunk', 'wrong', 'borderz', but in the end it lacks charisma. the songs aren't really there and most of the time it seems he doesn't know how to enhance them. i didn't hear the deluxe songs.it could be worse, i guess, i don't want to be too harsh on him, i suppose.
― Nourry, Thursday, 24 March 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
i also would like to read a review of the album that doesn't have such a reductive point of view about one direction as this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/arts/music/in-zayn-maliks-mind-of-mine-a-singer-eager-to-reclaim-parts-of-himself.html
― Nourry, Thursday, 24 March 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link
I actually liked the album
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 24 March 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
i've only heard pillowtalk which didn't do much for me. a katherine recommendation is probably good enough reason to dive in tho
― art baengels (monotony), Thursday, 24 March 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link
i wrote about the album https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2016/03/23/zayn-malik-charts-new-direction-with-solo-album-mind-mine/dDKgwSP1xh6ugMJZhWuomK/story.html
― maura, Thursday, 24 March 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
most of the production on this is pretty one-dimensional i think... in general it just seems like a safe album. that said, "drunk" is one of the better songs i've heard this year. i listened to it like 30 times today. that one gets the gauzy atmosphere right while still also having some actual production details (backing harmonies & stuff) that give you something to chew on. he really should never be let around an electric guitar tho. "she" is also good!
nothing else has stuck w/ me except for "truth" but that one might be a tad too on the nose as a frank ocean album track rip off. that "it's you" is pretty treacly disappointing cuz there's a really nice simple and direct song in there somewhere.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 26 March 2016 07:18 (eight years ago) link
agree with most here, overlong/oversung/ultimately pretty boring album where all the songs blur into each other. alt-r&b's attempts at profundity have always tended to the laughable so this pro forma, very try-hard attempt to replicate it falls pretty flat
i guess i'm most surprised at how uncharismatic and wooden a presence he is. it feels like he's singing so loudly all the time, no sense of dynamics at all, and you'd think that someone so indebted to mopey wispy alt-r&b would at least know to tone it down vocally
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
"that "it's you" is pretty treacly disappointing cuz there's a really nice simple and direct song in there somewhere.
― J0rdan S., Sábado, 26 de Março de 2016 7:18 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. I even prefer the live version, when he performed at the tonight show. if he had more songs like 'she' this could have been a way better album.
http://youtu.be/HVoiZolj78c
― Nourry, Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
he should record an album in Urdu
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 March 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
That would be great, literally and simbolically.
― Nourry, Saturday, 26 March 2016 12:19 (eight years ago) link
he should drop the echo though -- as signifier of depth, as tip of the hat to "alt" R&B, as a way of obscuring a pretty but uninteresting voice
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 March 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
Most unlikely 1D-related review yet.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435404/taking-temperature-american-pop
The audience was extremely pleasant, polite, well-behaved, and united in its appreciation for the artists. (The only time when there seemed to be a disproportionate response from one sector of the audience was for the performance of a guy named Zayn, whose romantic songs sparked an especially impressive level of frenzy from the females present. His songs were fine, but I think there was some “heartthrob” effect at work in the response. I don’t deny that he’s a handsome chap, but his work didn’t make me mark him as someone whose recordings I should seek out. Yes, I recognize that this is exactly the sort of thing that will be quoted back at me in the future if this guy becomes the Elvis or Sinatra of the 2020s.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 May 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
oh noes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjoemhQWUAAoiZK.jpg
― Jeff W, Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
At the gym today, whatever music service they were using got on a long string of 1D songs. Not a big fan of theirs, but I've heard what the radio plays and checked out an album in the past so I recognized a song here and there. Then I heard a song that sounded like some kind of awesome 70's Fleetwood Mac thing and thought "that couldn't possibly be 1D, right?" But it was. Now I have discovered "What a Feeling" :D
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 March 2017 07:44 (seven years ago) link
We told you!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 March 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
Is this the place to discuss how awful "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is or?
― MrExplorer, Friday, 3 March 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
it was potentially so obviously awful that it didn't merit discussion
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 3 March 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
xp there were too many Zayn posts in here, how am I supposed to filter through the noise
― Vinnie, Saturday, 4 March 2017 01:32 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GKGpObgPY
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 7 April 2017 12:22 (seven years ago) link
1. glad there's one 1d solo-career that's going to follow up sorta on "clouds"2. the press release mentioned bowie + queen + produced by jeff bhasker, so i assumed it would sound like fun. don't think i was far off lol3. feels like it needs like...another part
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 7 April 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
my first thought was "the nate reuss solo album that people will care about has arrived"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 April 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uD6s-X3590
this is not exactly what i want from harry, although i can't say i wasn't expecting something ed sheeran like at this point of the game.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
i wouldn't go so far as to invoke ed sheeran. it's a pleasant beatles pastiche
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
"beatles" meaning "blackbird" mostly
i've only listened to it once. i guess i want so much a new fleetwood mac pastiche that immediately i almost reject it. but i know there's a big probability of this song winning me over in a couple of days.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
it's nice! but there's not a lot there. which is the theme of harry's solo work so far
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link