One Direction - is this a legit new threat wrt to a new boy band invasion? y/n

New one from zayn - http://youtu.be/J4Gpx8pTSIM

ok i like this one

yeah, it's way better than 'pillowtalk'. with this one i'm starting to have some expectations about what's coming from zayn.

for some reasons i listened to this once and immediately had to go listen to "the lion sleeps tonight"

This is the most ridiculous tracklist ever

http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/zayns-shared-the-tracklisting-4-his-new-album/

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

I can pretty much guarantee that the tracklisting will be more interesting than the actual music, if only marginally so.

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great wifi password

kinda excited for the kehlani collab.

"it's you" still sounds to me like a song frank ocean might write for a disney movie

otm all of you

and now an upbeat one. it's nice. just nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLzjlA2hYw

my wife said she spent an hour listening to One Direction yesterday. SUCCESS!

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

BeFoUr>LIKE I WOULD>PiLlOwT4lK>>>>>>>>>>>iTs YoU

this stuff is all pretty middling

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

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)

yeah as y'all can probably tell i am really struggling to like a zayn song

he's really not a good singer

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.

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...

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

sorry his solo stuff isn't good enough to give him a thread

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

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

Funny given how this thread started off.

"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

rolling r&bleh

^^^ that has to be the title

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

rolling bootleg miguel thread

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

been there done that

this zayn stuff isn't good but neither is 1D so

i'm way more into the idea of zayn as a popstar than the reality of zayn as a popstar

yeah :( oh well

i'm way more into the idea of zayn as a popstar than the reality of zayn as a popstar

― 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

we'll always have that face i guess

lex otm

we'll always have that face i guess

― 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

http://www.soulbounce.com/soul/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/zhane-pronounced-jah-nay-cover.jpg

leaked

it's better than i predicted but it also should be better.

imo it's not very good at all

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.

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

I actually liked the album

i've only heard pillowtalk which didn't do much for me. a katherine recommendation is probably good enough reason to dive in tho

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