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

even though i like one direction's music i thought his argument against their music was pretty cogent and understandable

yeah i mean clearly it's possible to sing on those records and want to do something different. i thought it'd be more different from One Direction than this is, though!

yeah especially cuz he reportedly isn't working with big producers i'm surprised he went so pop

Didn't work for Charlie Busted, did it?

well he's working with Malay so i guess i was expecting something slightly more Frank Ocean-ish

It's The Weeknd with less drugs and more Ryan Tedder!

well he's working with Malay so i guess i was expecting something slightly more Frank Ocean-ish

― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Friday, January 29, 2016 9:46 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

me too!

the mind reels at the idea of Zayn confessing in song dark thoughts to a cab driver.

Didn't work for Charlie Busted, did it?

ok i want this to fail spectacularly so i can have zayn's fightstar

i wasn't sure what to expect -- even from the interviews and such it wasn't clear whether zayn would actually be able to make any decent r&b like he seemed to want to. so no, this is not really a disappointment to me. it's actually pretty good. obviously it's aiming for the center of the pop audience with a chorus like that, but the production on the verses at least nudges the sonic palette outward a bit compared to what plays there. (on that note i am confused by the thought above that this sounds like everything else on the radio. like, where? obvious r&b 'influence' aside, nick jonas this is not. it's also clearly not 'trying' to be "climax" with a chorus that dramatic. nope!)

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I'm still of the opinion that this sounds like a slightly white washed the Weeknd album cut (1D is better off without him imho, and I'm happy about that, so Zayn can chase the trends all he wants as far as I'm concerned), but the more I hear Pillowtalk the more irresistible it becomes. I'll certainly take Zayn's voice over the Weeknd's any day lol, although I will say the mononymous ZAYN is a little bit annoying (is that just me?)

Related to the above, I've been thinking about this nose post constantly in relation to ZAYN and his new tune:

under prolonged exposure everyone ends up liking everything so stated denial of pleasure becomes irrelevant. this isn't to negate negative criticism, criticism is always encouraged...but it isn't law. putting criticism in the box of personal interest is more rarely than not uninteresting.

publicly stating musical displeasure in a fashion of "i don't like this song" seems kinda outdated bc you're setting yourself up for limitations. i think nothing grows on anyone....a part of you knows immediately if you like something or not, the "growing on" portion consists of finding the vulnerability required to admit pleasure.

― nose, Sunday, February 15, 2015 11:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink (from last year in the mammoth Kanye thread)

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