that was pleasant and ignorable
― austinb, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
i'm starting to appreciate Zayn's Miguel rip better after these two songs, honestly—at least that was distinctive. this feels like pastiche without any of the palpable joy in pastiche-making that 1D itself had.
― austinb, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FzCz8NC58
i wasn't expecting a DNCE-like song from Niall Horan. it's ok , i guess? his voice is unrecognizable.
― Nourry, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
Whoa! Very pleasantly surprised, I really like this. Seems to me more like Jai Paul lite (the guitar/vocal editing in the verse) or Nick Jonas
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
yes, i would put is somewhere nearby the jonas family.
― Nourry, Thursday, 4 May 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link
DNCE? it sounds like shawn mendes
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 May 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Harry's album leaked and it has a couple of bleatles-pastiches. I think i will love it in a matter of days (although the paramore album is not helping).
And Liam will release soon a single with Quavo. I'm expecting something JT-like.
― Nourry, Thursday, 11 May 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
i hope liam tanks
― dyl, Thursday, 11 May 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
my gut says it will
― Nourry, Thursday, 11 May 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
the second song on this sounds like oasis. i've never been so quick to delete an album
― lex pretend, Friday, 12 May 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
lmao at "carolina." "oh yeah for my first solo album i'm just gonna rewrite 'stuck in the middle with you,' seems fine"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
this is enjoyably slight
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 12 May 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm enjoying this with muted expectations. It all sounds very good but it's hard to get over Harry's shallows as a writer
― bunny slopes, Friday, 12 May 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, May 12, 2017 10:45 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for a considerable portion of his audience, doing that is probs a novelty. places like music-writer twitter and ilx make it hard to forget that tweens/adolescents are the primary buyer demographic for this stuff (whether the solo stuff is being targeted at them anymore or not), but, like...they /arel lol
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link
*/are/
kid can't write lyrics for shit but otherwise the harry solo album is p solid pleasant 70s rock pastiche stuff. i listened to styles as well as the liam payne single for something i'm writing and i assure you the payne thing is 1,000x worse and more tryhard
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
oh the liam payne single is dogshit, don't get me wrong. also i don't hate this record and am not blind to its audience
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
word. i was actually wondering who the audience is - fans who bought 1D records for the vaguely country-rock ballads? did they have those? I should clarify that I have never listened to more than like, two 1D songs, enough to understand the appeal but realize it wasn't my jam
― royce jung (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
So many good songs..
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
My seven-year-old niece loves "What Makes You Beautiful," and hearing to her belt along with the chorus has earned the song a small place in my affections, but on the whole, idgi. Then again, I never liked the Backstreet Boys either.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
“fireproof” should get some kind of award for production
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
Well this is kinda great
today in Things You Cannot Make Up: I was in the cafe I go to every day, working on my dissertation about @Harry_Styles, when outside the window appears.... the real human Harry Styles pic.twitter.com/azCqSZYqll— Ally Gross (@AllysonGross) May 21, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
<3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
he's....aged
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
he's.... aged well
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
man needs a haircut imo
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
god has it really been more than five years since i wrote some profoundly erotic harry styles / mick hucknall slashfic itt
where does the time go
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
miss them so much.
― Nourry, Friday, 22 June 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
otm
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
...because I heard Glad You Came again.
Heard “Night Changes” at the mall today.
― timellison, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
today i heard 'what a feeling' again and is probably their best song ever?
― Nourry, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
tied with "No Control"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
and "little black dress" and "fireproof" and
― bunny slopes, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
1D traxx poll please
pleaaase. 'fireproof' and 'stockholm syndrome' are obvious contenders.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
What A Feeling is the one I play most. Fantastic song.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
I like No Control too, but What Makes You Beautiful and Steal My Girl and Best Song Ever
― timellison, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
every song on the radio sounds like "stockholm syndrome" now
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Would you say that the radio has... Stockholm syndrome?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
“stockholm syndrome” is a really good 1975 rip off but “change your ticket” is >>>>>>>>>>>>> everything
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 July 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Yep
― Tim F, Thursday, 5 July 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
Apparently I need to listen to the radio more - what specific songs are you thinking of, Brad?
― Vinnie, Thursday, 5 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
oh i was def exaggerating to the point where... that claim isn't even correct, but i've heard a few examples in the past few months; ofc the one that sticks in mind is the charlie puth rebrand, but also that new 5 seconds of summer song? these are all 1975 bites to a degree but it's also not necessarily the sound i associate with them bc it sounds cross-pollinated with mj pastiche
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
may be playing fast and loose with the word "radio" there too
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
sorta reminds of me of when multiple people were making fake maroon 5 songs in 2015 including maroon 5 ("sugar")
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
recent maroon 5, charlie puth, shawn mendes and 5sos singles/albums are all in a continuum of tasteful lite guitar pop that i think was crystallized by 1D as adapted from 1975, who used similar guitar tones but in a more bombastic fashion maroon 5 “wait” is my fav example of this tho bent towards more contemporary notions of slick pop in the way you might expect from maroon 5. it was co-written & produced by john ryan who w/ julian bunetta did the last three 1D albums so the connection is even really that tangential
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
oh thank god i'm not completely full of shit
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
i think the tendency to ascribe the genesis of a partly imagined mainstream lineage to one or two acts that had little direct/lasting impact on mainstream radio (even while they were quite famous!) just b/c one rly likes their music is understandable but profoundly silly. i mean the 1975 come on what
(i appreciated that you at least pointed out creative personnel in common wrt 1d/maroon 5 but "wait" doesn't even sound remotely like any 1d song i've heard lol)
― dyl, Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
ok where did this sound come from
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
like i'm not making this attribution bc i LOOVE the 1975, these are the reference points i have
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link