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
"Get Lucky"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
lol nm i'm making an argument i don't even want to make
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
might as well throw in John Maye was part of the lineage
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link