![]() Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki, “Just Hold On” One day, we can only hope it all comes together for Zayn to have a truly great betrayal ballad.ģ2. All any of us want is to make it through December, really.Ī fairly compelling melody and production, unfortunately spent on a chorus that feels like it should be a lot more pointed and a little less muddled than it actually is (“You were my favorite entertainer/ I watch you, I laugh with and f–k with you/ Don’t you take me for a fool/ In this game, I own the rules”). Not exactly potent enough to supplant that similarly titled Christmas song in fans’ hearts (or on top of Spotify search results) - but on the whole, a heartfelt enough lyric and a powerful enough vocal performance to be a worthy entry in the modern holiday music canon. It did add enough extra streams and downloads to give the song a nice bump on the Hot 100, though, so hopefully Shaed will be sending Zayn a nice Christmas card this year.Įasily the most forgotten of the early 1D solo singles - bubbling under the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and so sparsely promoted it barely even registers as a single - and understandably so: Zayn’s Mind of Mine duet with R&B star Kehlani gets a little too submerged in the watery production of the album’s second half, with neither of the talented vocalists managing to make a particularly strong impression.ģ4. Zayn certainly doesn’t make alt-pop outfit Shaed’s effervescent breakout hit any less bouncy, but his presence just doesn’t do a ton to elevate a song that was already pretty seamless. Then again, “Steal My Girl” was one of the most underrated 1D singles, so it’s hard to be too mad at the quasi-rewrite. Louis Tomlinson, “Don’t Let It Break Your Heart”Ĭoldplay got to this title first, of course, but more pressingly, Louis’ own group got to the melody. Maybe a little better in its airy pop-rock sway than we’re giving it credit for here, but sorta hard not to hold those “Our sex has meaning” muscle T-shirts against this one.ģ7. Lewis Capaldi probably would’ve gone top 10 with it, though. Niall Horan, “Put a Little Love on Me”Ī decent but disappointingly unexceptional ballad by Niall standards, with a title that really feels like it could’ve used a second pass. The two artists don’t exactly recreate the magic of that Britpop classic here, but as far as late-’10s drop-pop goes, it’s rousing enough.ģ9. If you were making a bet on the 1D most likely to borrow the chorus to Oasis’ ’90s anthem “Live Forever,” you could probably have gotten 100 to 1 odds on it being Liam Payne - and EDM duo Cheat Codes being in any way involved would’ve been off the board altogether. Meanwhile, French Montana is always a better host than guest, and his rhymes here (“Tryna fight it like Tyson, but she snipe me with a rifle”) prove largely uninspiring.Ĥ0. The beat has an interesting snake to it, but it doesn’t ever quite build like you’d hope, and the chorus doesn’t provide much payoff. An interesting experiment, certainly, but not one whose results need revisiting all that frequently.Ĥ1. ![]() Kinda like Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” if it was covered by Rag’n’Bone Man and produced by Alex da Kid. Nicki Minaj is always a welcome guest presence, but her chemistry with Zayn isn’t particularly sparkling here. Nicki Minaj, “No Candle No Light”Ī 2018 single that sounds at least a couple years too late for contemporary pop radio with its dancehall-inspired shuffle and the Jack Ü-like wordless wail that marks its refrain. Not a bad song in its entirety, but its “money on my mind” hook isn’t among Payne’s most charming, and melodically the single echoes Selena Gomez’s Charli XCX-co-written “Same Old Love” smash from 2015 a little too closely.Ĥ3. Niall Horan Braces for Stardom Outside One Direction, With Advice From Justin Bieber & The…Ĥ4.
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