At the end of the song, all you can say is: “Is this all?”Īll the other songs are on the same page. PILLOWTALK is a flat song, which despite all the good intentions of change and complexity never reaches a real climax: the differences between verses and chorus are blurred, and the tune never really starts.
The rhythm is good for dancing, a curious and atypical mix between R&B, hip hop, pop and electronic.Įssentially, from OneD’s genre, Zayn has moved to the Justin Bieber’s one… such an upgrade! Not mentioning the song’s not-so-“pure” topic, that will be proposed again in every single song on the record, the style is sophisticated and unusual, pretty far from the music of One Direction everybody was used to. His uprising, mixed with the hazard and the desire of distance himself from his previous genre, are shown from the very beginning, thanks to his first official single, and first song on the album: PILLOWTALK. The album is a complete break with the past: a rebellion from the chains that kept him locked up for five years. The target of Mind of Mine are these newbies: in several interviews for the promotion of the record, the singer openly declared that he had used all the songs he wrote for One Direction that were rejected because the themes and the genre were not suitable for the band’s target audience. Never being out of public attention, Zayn has shaped his new image separate from the band, attracting curious people and new fans.
MIND OF MINE ZAYN MALIK SONGS FULL
It seems that in this year Malik hadn’t enough private time out of the spotlight as he was craving, being in a rush trying not to lose the wave of success he was riding for the past five years thanks to his band mates.įor him, these 365 days were full of gossip, feuds on social media, critiques, paparazzi… but also a rediscovery of his own identity, apart from writing and recording time. 25 th March 2016: it was on the day of the first anniversary of the break away from One Direction in order to be “a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight” that Zayn decided to launch his first solo album, Mind of Mine.Ī desire to show that a chapter that has ended is not always also the end of everything else: the blank page after the full stop was just a preparation for a new and important part of his life as an artist.
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