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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0GKGpObgPY

1. glad there's one 1d solo-career that's going to follow up sorta on "clouds"
2. the press release mentioned bowie + queen + produced by jeff bhasker, so i assumed it would sound like fun. don't think i was far off lol
3. feels like it needs like...another part

my first thought was "the nate reuss solo album that people will care about has arrived"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uD6s-X3590

this is not exactly what i want from harry, although i can't say i wasn't expecting something ed sheeran like at this point of the game.

i wouldn't go so far as to invoke ed sheeran. it's a pleasant beatles pastiche

"beatles" meaning "blackbird" mostly

i've only listened to it once. i guess i want so much a new fleetwood mac pastiche that immediately i almost reject it. but i know there's a big probability of this song winning me over in a couple of days.

it's nice! but there's not a lot there. which is the theme of harry's solo work so far

that was pleasant and ignorable

i'm starting to appreciate Zayn's Miguel rip better after these two songs, honestly—at least that was distinctive. this feels like pastiche without any of the palpable joy in pastiche-making that 1D itself had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FzCz8NC58

i wasn't expecting a DNCE-like song from Niall Horan. it's ok , i guess?
his voice is unrecognizable.

Whoa! Very pleasantly surprised, I really like this.
Seems to me more like Jai Paul lite (the guitar/vocal editing in the verse) or Nick Jonas

yes, i would put is somewhere nearby the jonas family.

DNCE? it sounds like shawn mendes

Harry's album leaked and it has a couple of bleatles-pastiches. I think i will love it in a matter of days (although the paramore album is not helping).

And Liam will release soon a single with Quavo. I'm expecting something JT-like.

i hope liam tanks

my gut says it will

the second song on this sounds like oasis. i've never been so quick to delete an album

lmao at "carolina." "oh yeah for my first solo album i'm just gonna rewrite 'stuck in the middle with you,' seems fine"

this is enjoyably slight

I'm enjoying this with muted expectations. It all sounds very good but it's hard to get over Harry's shallows as a writer

lmao at "carolina." "oh yeah for my first solo album i'm just gonna rewrite 'stuck in the middle with you,' seems fine"

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, May 12, 2017 10:45 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for a considerable portion of his audience, doing that is probs a novelty. places like music-writer twitter and ilx make it hard to forget that tweens/adolescents are the primary buyer demographic for this stuff (whether the solo stuff is being targeted at them anymore or not), but, like...they /arel lol

*/are/

kid can't write lyrics for shit but otherwise the harry solo album is p solid pleasant 70s rock pastiche stuff. i listened to styles as well as the liam payne single for something i'm writing and i assure you the payne thing is 1,000x worse and more tryhard

oh the liam payne single is dogshit, don't get me wrong. also i don't hate this record and am not blind to its audience

word. i was actually wondering who the audience is - fans who bought 1D records for the vaguely country-rock ballads? did they have those? I should clarify that I have never listened to more than like, two 1D songs, enough to understand the appeal but realize it wasn't my jam

So many good songs..

My seven-year-old niece loves "What Makes You Beautiful," and hearing to her belt along with the chorus has earned the song a small place in my affections, but on the whole, idgi. Then again, I never liked the Backstreet Boys either.

“fireproof” should get some kind of award for production

Well this is kinda great

today in Things You Cannot Make Up: I was in the cafe I go to every day, working on my dissertation about @Harry_Styles, when outside the window appears.... the real human Harry Styles pic.twitter.com/azCqSZYqll

— Ally Gross (@AllysonGross) May 21, 2018

<3

he's....aged

he's.... aged well

man needs a haircut imo

god has it really been more than five years since i wrote some profoundly erotic harry styles / mick hucknall slashfic itt

where does the time go

miss them so much.

otm

...because I heard Glad You Came again.

Heard “Night Changes” at the mall today.

today i heard 'what a feeling' again and is probably their best song ever?

tied with "No Control"

and "little black dress" and "fireproof" and

1D traxx poll please

pleaaase.
'fireproof' and 'stockholm syndrome' are obvious contenders.

What A Feeling is the one I play most. Fantastic song.

I like No Control too, but What Makes You Beautiful and Steal My Girl and Best Song Ever

every song on the radio sounds like "stockholm syndrome" now

Would you say that the radio has... Stockholm syndrome?

“stockholm syndrome” is a really good 1975 rip off but “change your ticket” is >>>>>>>>>>>>> everything

Yep

every song on the radio sounds like "stockholm syndrome" now

Apparently I need to listen to the radio more - what specific songs are you thinking of, Brad?