In fact, the song is almost annoyingly current. At worst, they are a multi-million dollar karaoke machine keyed to our basest instincts. At best, One Direction are a post-modern jukebox that found the meaning of feeling good, and will stay there as long as you think they should.
ZAYN MALIK PILLOW TALK LYRIC LICENSE
One Direction used this as a license to burgle: a huge chunk of their singles fall back on catering to your existing familiarity with songs by the Who (“Best Song Ever”), Journey (“Steal My Girl”), The Clash (“Live Like We’re Young”) Grease (“What Makes You Beautiful”), Def Leppard (“Midnight Memories”) or the Backstreet Boys themselves (“One Thing”).
ZAYN MALIK PILLOW TALK LYRIC MOVIE
They followed the early Aughts pop boom, which featured bands that traded in Letterman-esque self-awareness - cf., the ‘NSync song where the hook is “This must be pop” or the Spice Girls movie where George Wendt and Mark McKinney pitch terrible ideas for a Spice Girls movie. The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here)Īs much as they love to break out the mason jars and do their best Mumford in the cornfields, One Direction never totally shed their image as teeny-bop pop pilferers. “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? 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. 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.
This week, Zayn Malik, the Ice Cube to their N.W.A, nailed it on his first try. 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.
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