and now an upbeat one. it's nice. just nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLzjlA2hYw
― Nourry, Thursday, 10 March 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
my wife said she spent an hour listening to One Direction yesterday. SUCCESS!
― ODD FUTURE WOLFGANG VAN HALEN ON BASS (some dude), Thursday, 10 March 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
this is more like what i was expecting. kinda coasts on vibe but i can see myself really falling for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrXpp_Nlt4
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
BeFoUr>LIKE I WOULD>PiLlOwT4lK>>>>>>>>>>>iTs YoU
― Greer, Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
this stuff is all pretty middling
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 March 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
the typography of the song titles ;_;
i'm sort of surprised he can't sell any of these songs memorably, they're forgettable and i think it's largely due to him. "like i would" is just wooden oversinging from start to end
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
like it's really not a great sign when i'm thinking "man, nick jonas would sound so much better on this"
(jojo covered "pillowtalk" live last week and it was the first time i'd thought it was a half-decent song)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 March 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
yeah as y'all can probably tell i am really struggling to like a zayn song
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
he's really not a good singer
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 March 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
his "no type" cover was the signal for me
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 (eight 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