hey its one of those blossoming vaginas
― Spottie, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
extreme hair splitting*
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
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
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
― 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