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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2016 20:25:48 GMT
By now, you've probably watched the music video for "PILLOWTALK" once or twice...and by once or twice we mean a couple of hundred times. (Sorry.) (Okay, really sorry.) Between the amazing graphics, Zayn's phenomenal singing, and a little-known model named Gigi Hadid, there's so much to love about the song, its video, and everything else in between. Zayn Malik gave way to ZAYN. Long may he reign. But there's also one small reference to the singer's former life as one fifth of One Direction. It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of thing, and it's very likely that the imagery overpowered Zayn and he didn't quite realize what he was doing, but he's cried tears of blood before, when he performed with his four new buddies on X Factor.
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Post by Admin on Feb 11, 2016 20:23:37 GMT
In five years and five albums, from their birth on the The X Factor to their hiatus following Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, One Direction – the most popular and visible boy band of the post-Backstreet era – have never had a Number One single. This week, Zayn Malik, the Ice Cube to their N.W.A, nailed it on his first try. There's nothing particularly special about his single, "Pillowtalk." In fact, there are at least two or three One Direction singles I would call unequivocally better. Malik's sex-soaked lyrics are awkward like, well, anyone's first time: "In the bed all day, bed all day, bed all day/Fucking in and fighting on/It's our paradise and it's our war zone." OK, love is a battlefield, but this is trying way too hard to sound edgy (and it ends up sounding a little creepy). And while the goth-tinged Weeknd can find the romantic absinthe glow in dark lines like "You know our love would be tragic" and "I know she'll be the death of me, at least we'll both be numb," there is nothing remotely sexy about repeating "war zone" over and over again. "Pillowtalk" is a complicated song, standing in sharp contrast to the very simple ideas of many other 2015-2016 hits – "Hello," "Sorry," "Work," "Here," "Roses," "Don't." So how did Malik manage to do what 1D couldn't?
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