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05-05-2016, 06:34 PM,
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Tusk
jonesing for some Gingerbread Cake
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RE: Beats1 Interview
Short lived... Haley requested a Beach Boys song, a caller requested Better and she talked about the 818, mentioned the album, tour, PMJ and FiFF
Quote:Tusk @HaleysTusk 13m13 minutes ago
@HaleyReinhart declares "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys, the greatest love song of all time!
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05-05-2016, 07:37 PM,
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Miguel
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RE: Beats1 Interview
Quote:Rachel is ❁BETTER❁ @RClovesHaley 42m
OH MY GODDDDDD HALEY LIKES ZAYN
Quote:ανєℓєηє❁ @IHARTHALEYDAILY 41m
Haley likes Zayn. Omfggg.
Quote:Rachel is ❁BETTER❁ @RClovesHaley 40m
Haley requested a Zayn song what alternate universe are we living in right now lol
Pitchfork
Quote:Lacking compelling hooks, a unifying mood, or a clear narrative, former One Direction member Zayn's debut Mind of Mine is a definitive step away from One Direction towards nowhere in particular.
Rolling Stone
Quote:...His solo re-introduction is a glimpse into his dirtiest thoughts, which, like the thoughts of most 23-year-old boys, are a bit half-baked and corny ("I think I know she don't love me/That's why I fuck her right," he offers on "She Don't Love Me"). Luckily, though, unlike most boys his age, Malik can sing. His range and vocals shine, from the clipped phrasing of "She" to the booming falsetto belt on "Befour." Above hi-hat rolls or tribal drum 'n' bass beats, he carefully steers beyond banal lothario showmanship to prove he’s a convincing seducer.
Working with producers like Frank Ocean assist-man Malay, Malik's move into deep, freaky R&B is immersive, even if his DNA is still catchy, accessible pop, as proven by clubby successes "Tio," "Like I Would" and "Pillowtalk." He stumbles with tepid ballads like "It's You" and "Blue," but the record is saved by its more experimental moments – specifically, the warm, neo-soul track "Truth" and hypnotic Persian-infused intermission "Flower." The welcome surprises not only take Malik off the Justin Timberlake-paved track of post-boy band R&B album tropes, they create unique possibilities of his own.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumr...z47pmYHKS7
The Verge
Quote:If you can take your mind off of what he’s singing, Zayn’s voice remains husky, versatile, and compelling. He can flip from wounded to menacing to libidinous and back like he’s toggling a switch. The album’s best songs — the woozy "It’s You" and interlude "Flower" — stick to lyrical basics and give him room to shine. ("Flower" is sung in Urdu, his father’s native language.)
...It’s obvious Zayn has some kind of spark, but he needs to give it room to catch fire. You can hear the pressure weighing on this record, and it’s stifling.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/28/113179...bum-review
SPIN
Quote:Sonically, you won’t find many pop albums in 2016 more immaculately conceived than this. Malay, the undersung co-producer of much of Frank Ocean’s channel ORANGE, is a revelation here, serving up most of the LP’s highlights: the lightly quaking Beach House gauze of “iT’s YoU,” the bleating synths and night-drive drama of “BeFoUr,” and the molasses-entrenched wiggle of “BoRdErSz” all included. The album never sounds less than great, and Malik’s voice is lithe and adaptable enough to be equally convincing while floating like a paper airplane above the tremors of “iT’s YoU” or shouting the exultant chorus of “PILLOWTALK” like Patrick Stump halfway through the best orgasm of his life.
What ZAYN can’t do, though, is give us much reason to care about that Mind of His. His songs get to where they need to go, but they’re lacking in narrative, specificity… purpose, if you will.
...Similarly, his sex ballads may not skimp on the bad words, but they’re precious short on detail — the kind of too-intimate facts that make songs about f**king feel truly filthy. Even more discouragingly, they have virtually no sense of subject: If they’re being sung to an actual person, good luck describing anything about them to a police sketch artist. You might not have liked the patronizing ways in which One Direction mansplained your beauty to you, or the uncomfortable way they excused you for those little things that made you you (for better or worse), but at least it felt like they were paying attention. When ZAYN promises “iT’s YoU”… Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t.
http://www.spin.com/2016/03/review-zayn-mind-of-mine/
The Guardian
Quote:The importance of getting the first single right means recent UK and US No 1 Pillowtalk is basically a checklist of heavy-handed, I’m-a-man-not-a-boy rebellion. So there’s swearing (“fucking and fighting” to “piss off the neighbours”), alongside that Weeknd-esque trope of conflating pain and pleasure into one woozy, weed-filled 4am tryst. There’s also lashings of overwrought guitar, as though rock’n’roll still signals danger.
...Thankfully, Malik settles into a less ham-fisted groove as the album unfolds (although its title and artwork both suggest he hasn’t completely mastered subtlety yet).
...The lasting impression of Mind of Mine, however, is of someone finally making the music they’ve wanted to make for a long time. That the sound he’s chosen – clipped beats, hazy production flourishes, oodles of falsetto as a shortcut for emotional honesty – is basically 2016 writ large may seem bandwagon-jumping, but there’s more than enough good stuff here to suggest it’s been created with love rather than with an eye on ticking boxes. You sense he’s had enough of the latter to last him a lifetime.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/ma...ed-rebrand
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05-05-2016, 08:11 PM,
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Miguel
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RE: Beats1 Interview
Apparently, Haley requested "iT's YoU." Perhaps she was channeling her inner 14-yr-old who used to mix lower and upper case letters.
Quote:She got, she got, she got
Her own reasons for talking to me
She don't, she don't, she don't
Give a fuck about what I need
And I can't tell you why
Because my brain can't equate it
Tell me your lies
Because I just can't face it
It's you, it's you
It's you
It's you, it's you
It's you
I won't, I won't, I won't
Cover my scars
I'll let 'em bleed
So my silence
So my silence won't
Be mistaken for peace
Am I wrong for wanting us to make it?
Tell me your lies
Because I just can't face it
It's you, it's you
It's you
It's you, it's you
It's you
Could it be that it's a lesson
That I never had to learn?
I looked at it like a blessing
And now it's just a curse
I don't know why
I don't know why
It's you, it's you
It's you, it's you
It's you
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Whatever she sings I hope it is a special one as she will get attention that will spin off to her solo work.