![]() ![]() With its flamboyant, catchy chorus, Pillowtalk offers an X-rated version of 1D’s pop - and one which is bound to do just as well in the charts. The band’s lyrics implied sex, suggesting on their most recent album “we can moan in the darkness”. It is, however, a clear move on from One Direction’s clean-cut image. In comparison to the bold and brutal ways the likes of The Weeknd, Ocean and FKA Twigs have all dealt with sex in their music, this romance is decidedly lukewarm. From the opening line, “Climb on board”, Malik runs through a litany of clichéd phrases including “paradise and warzone” and “f- and fighting”. What stops it from being the smart, soulful song Malik intended are the lyrics, which he wrote himself. The whole thing is smothered in glossy, high-end, LA production. ![]() Things get a little overworked in the second half of the single, with a noodling guitar solo, piano keys, Phil Collins-style drumbeats and, more pleasingly, the kind of squeaky bleeps Justin Bieber has adopted on his latest album Purpose. It’s a perfectly serviceable pop single, and is ready for a dancefloor-filling remix to enhance its big, shimmering bass beat. He co-wrote the track with Anthony Hannides, Michael Hannides, Joe Garrett, and. ' Pillowtalk ' (stylised in all caps) is the debut solo single by English singer and songwriter Zayn, for his debut solo studio album Mind of Mine. For other uses, see Pillow talk (disambiguation). Malik’s vocals are clear, and billow into a chorus which cries out for stadium floodlight illumination. This article is about the 2016 song from British singer Zayn Malik. ![]()
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