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.
― MrExplorer, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
;-[
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
This song is too wishy washy. Release fucking "What a Feeling" already.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:35 (eight years ago) link
"History" >>>>>>> "What A Feeling"
― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:48 (eight years ago) link
no
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
me: "release 'walking in the wind' as a single even though it's a bonus track idgaf"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link
i've noticed these guys, and all the boy bands, they love pointing atcha in videos.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:18 (eight years ago) link
I'm with brad on this one, walking in the wind is the second or third best track on the whole damn thing
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
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'.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
What a feelingWolvesTemporary fixWalking in the windPerfect OliviaNever enoughEnd of the dayI want to write you a songHey angelDrag me down HistoryAMLove you goodbyeLong way down If I could fly Infinity
― Nourry, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:12 (eight years ago) link
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
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:19 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 10:05 (eight years ago) link
leaving this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3d6GntKbk
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
it's got more of a ryan tedder vibe than i was expecting
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 05:24 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's kinda wack... the chorus is all wrong
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 05:37 (eight years ago) link
i think it's aiiiight
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 05:38 (eight years ago) link
but leaving one direction to do music like this kinda feels like extra hair splitting
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
hey its one of those blossoming vaginas
― Spottie, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 05:40 (eight years ago) link
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
― MrExplorer, Friday, 29 January 2016 08:42 (eight years ago) link
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
― MrExplorer, Friday, 29 January 2016 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Yes but he's all grown up now. I mean, he swears and everything.
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 January 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 29 January 2016 11:01 (eight years ago) link
What a tiresome song. It's like he wants to sing Usher's "Climax" and what emerges is a Tedder ballad.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
even though i like one direction's music i thought his argument against their music was pretty cogent and understandable
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
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!
― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
yeah especially cuz he reportedly isn't working with big producers i'm surprised he went so pop
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
Didn't work for Charlie Busted, did it?
― Mark G, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
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, 29 January 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
It's The Weeknd with less drugs and more Ryan Tedder!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Friday, January 29, 2016 9:46 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
me too!
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
the mind reels at the idea of Zayn confessing in song dark thoughts to a cab driver.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
ok i want this to fail spectacularly so i can have zayn's fightstar
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
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!)
― dyl, Friday, 29 January 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Harry Styles. @Harry_Styles 1 de fevI don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22.
https://twitter.com/Harry_Styles/status/694229236677120000
<3
― Nourry, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
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?)
― MrExplorer, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 05:24 (eight years ago) link
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)
― MrExplorer, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 05:27 (eight years ago) link
New one from zayn - http://youtu.be/J4Gpx8pTSIM
― Nourry, Thursday, 18 February 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
ok i like this one
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 February 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
yeah, it's way better than 'pillowtalk'. with this one i'm starting to have some expectations about what's coming from zayn.
― Nourry, Thursday, 18 February 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
for some reasons i listened to this once and immediately had to go listen to "the lion sleeps tonight"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 18 February 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
This is the most ridiculous tracklist ever
http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/zayns-shared-the-tracklisting-4-his-new-album/
― Nourry, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:48 (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, 7 March 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
I can pretty much guarantee that the tracklisting will be more interesting than the actual music, if only marginally so.
― // 166,000 W A N K E R S // LOVE (Turrican), Monday, 7 March 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
lUcOzAdE
great wifi password
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 7 March 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
kinda excited for the kehlani collab.
― Nourry, Monday, 7 March 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
"it's you" still sounds to me like a song frank ocean might write for a disney movie
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 March 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
otm all of you
― MrExplorer, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 07:28 (eight years ago) link