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

fuck "walking in the wind" is great too. BONUS TRACK SYNDROME

"walking in the wind" is probably the best "i know it's over but we'll find each other again" song ever, i have no idea how they know this much about my life

Only listened once but, aww man, I can already tell I'll never love this like I do Four. Maybe a better rip will help. I miss Zayn's melisma, the way he really dug into 1D's pretty standard melodies and pulled out complexity and soul.

That said, it's pretty consistently decent after one pass and "Perfect" and "Never Enough" are already all-timers

Ha -- for a while I've preferred 1D's album tracks to their singles.

'What a feeling' Is a obvious highlight for me. Kinda fireproof Pt.2

And although I've been reading that 'hey angel' Is a descendent from verve, to me it sounds a lot like robbie williams. But, as brad nelson wrote, I'm also emotionally devastated by this.

Really warmed up to this more than I thought I would! I mean, it is not the miracle of Four but what is? "If I Could Fly" is a turd and TOTALLY Harry but I'll take it over "18"

Everything else is great, including all cheesy Beatle-isms and Tango-era Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon bites

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/why-are-so-many-adults-obsessed-with-one-direction

also on Noisey, my argument for why 1D is better than Bieber and will sell more:http://m.noisey.vice.com/blog/justin-bieber-one-direction-purpose-made-in-the-a-m-belieber-directioner-showdown?utm_source=noiseytwitterus

they're both gonna get outsold by drake and possibly drake and future too

first week anyway, as far as what a time to be alive goes

My review should go live on Monday. "What A Feeling" is my jam. I love the way the bass tugs at the drums like Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams."

^^^ Yaass. And 'Wolves ' <3

I like One Direction because when I hear them, when I look at them, I realize how quickly they will be gone. How quickly I will be gone and I feel very grateful to be here. One Direction is all brevity, tender flowers, a reminder of mortality, a reminder to live with joy.

It's more that 1D reminds me I am going to die. Which of course, makes me a much better mom because, for me, at their shows, I feel certain nothing beside kindness matters when youth, life, beauty are so brief. 1D fills both my daughters and me with joy, with love. That comes back as kindness.

Samantha H., age 44 otm!

Bieber vs 1D was a question of who'd be #1 that week, not biggest sales week of the year, which Adele already has locked down off preorders alone.

that said, two of 1D's previous albums did more the first week than If You're Reading, so it's not out of the question at all.

"long way down" reminds me of "drops of jupiter"

I watched that James Corden carpool karaoke today - I've only ever listened to a few of the singles but I really do enjoy these blokes so I am diving into all of the albums. Four is my fave atm

Tim F nailed it way upthread -

Actually I feel like One Direction at their most rock are approaching Fall Out Boy at their most pop - the distance between "No Control" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "Miss Missing You" or "Where Did The Party Go?" seems pretty small to me.

― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 2:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My boyfriend rankings are
1 Harry
2 Louis/Zayn
4 Liam
5 Niall...but 5 should be like 10 because Niall gives me grody 5ive/East 17 vibes.

Harry is much cuter now that he has long hair. That mid-length curl was not good

Anyway hi yes here I am, seems bananas that it took me this long to get down with these cute boyz

glad you're on board!

"What a Feeling" is so beautiful. I play it once a day.

yes! gorgeous. reminds me of Outside-era George Michael somewhat, if he bumped into Sade.

The bridge on Walking in the Wind may be the best thing Harry has ever done

This Is happening at its very good : http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/tagged/made-in-the-am

Yessssss I eagerly await the rest, thank you for this link!

bucket of tears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmp8CoZBIo

that video is so great/ridiculous/unbelievable

One of my least favorites on the album and I was kinda salty about this being chosen as a single, but wow. That video. All is forgiven.

;-[

This song is too wishy washy. Release fucking "What a Feeling" already.

"History" >>>>>>> "What A Feeling"

no

me: "release 'walking in the wind' as a single even though it's a bonus track idgaf"

i've noticed these guys, and all the boy bands, they love pointing atcha in videos.

no

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)

I'm with brad on this one, walking in the wind is the second or third best track on the whole damn thing

Yeah, 'what a feeling' is probably the best song from made in am. It is right above from 'wolves', 'temporary fix', 'walking in the wind' (why did they insist to put their best songs as bonus tracks) and 'perfect'.

What a feeling
Wolves
Temporary fix
Walking in the wind
Perfect
Olivia
Never enough
End of the day
I want to write you a song
Hey angel
Drag me down
History
AM
Love you goodbye
Long way down
If I could fly
Infinity

Why do you put Hey Angel in the middle? It's an easy #17 for me and I'm curious what it's defenders have to say that they like about it?

Also I'll be a lone defender of If I Could Fly rn i guess: I think its got a really well pieced together set of lyrics, great melody, everyone sounds super sincere on their lines, and the second to last chorus where all four of them take a line is just perfection. I can see that you guys clearly like fast 1D better than slow 1D, and If I Could Fly certainly is sappy, but I can't see why its so low in people's opinions here

Hey Angel reminds me Robbie Williams' millennium, which for me is a good sign, and it works perfectly as a first song for the album. I do prefer fast 1D, when they go slow they tend to a coldplayish vibe, but 'fireproof ' and 'night changes' are two of my favorite 1D songs and they're very slow, as you say. So... Yeah.

leaving this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3d6GntKbk

it's got more of a ryan tedder vibe than i was expecting

yeah it's kinda wack... the chorus is all wrong

i think it's aiiiight

but leaving one direction to do music like this kinda feels like extra hair splitting

hey its one of those blossoming vaginas

extreme hair splitting*

well judging on this he certainly internalized the structure of one direction's singles even if the window dressing is all different

Ever since that Fader profile Zayn did last fall (where he's spilling orange smoothie all over his chin on the magazine cover) revealed that he is an intensely uninteresting person, I knew that when he talked about the band holding him back from playing #realmusic etc I knew that his new shit was gonna be some nick jonas/chris brown/weeknd ripoff hybrid. And look at what we have here.

It's decent but

Have you guys read that interview? So much gag-inducing inflammatory bs. He calls 1D "generic as fuck" and then turns around and makes sure his first single sounds like everything on the radio. Like I said, you could tell this was gonna be the case, but hearing it now makes me taste the bile all over again

Yes but he's all grown up now. I mean, he swears and everything.

the song IS more 'adult' sounding (adult meaning moody) than the average 1D single, but its still pretty generic. which wouldnt actually be a problem if the chorus actually felt like one, and the paradise/war zone lyric didnt sound like nonsense. bit of a letdown. it sounds a bit over produced too.