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I must confess I never really listened One Direction’s music or watched their career unfold. Niall’s music caught my attention after listening to Slow Hands on the radio several times and deciding to research who sang it.
Overall Flicker is a pleasant debut album with some safe songs and some surprises.
On the Loose is a catchy opening song about an obsessive and toxic relationship that sets the overall sound of Flicker. The following track, This Town is a melancholic acoustic ballad about long lost teenage love that left its mark - bumping into them on your hometown means triggering all the bittersweet memories from the past.
Seeing Blind is a nice country duet with Maren Morris about two people accidentally bumping into each other and finding the love of their lives. Doesn’t everybody wish this would happen to them?
Slow Hands was the song that made me start listening to Niall’s music and I love it. The raspy vocals and the melody are really catchy. On this song the girl chases the boy and he’s actually happy about it.
In Too Much to Ask we meet melancholic Niall again, reminiscing about a relationship that has just ended but still hopes for another try. A heartache that is carried over to Paper Houses and Flicker where we’re told more about this love that had everything to be right but faded away.
Since We’re Alone and Fire Away talk about helping someone opening up and musically break the sad tone of the previous songs with a tune that I always imagine playing whilst driving in a car at sunset in a summer afternoon.
Flicker’s last track, You and Me gets us all daydreaming about finding the one at the end of a hard road of broken hearts and empty promises. It’s a beautiful closing track.
It’s a 4/5 for me. Top tracks: On the Loose, Slow Hands, Since We’re Alone, You and Me.
Overall Flicker is a pleasant debut album with some safe songs and some surprises.
On the Loose is a catchy opening song about an obsessive and toxic relationship that sets the overall sound of Flicker. The following track, This Town is a melancholic acoustic ballad about long lost teenage love that left its mark - bumping into them on your hometown means triggering all the bittersweet memories from the past.
Seeing Blind is a nice country duet with Maren Morris about two people accidentally bumping into each other and finding the love of their lives. Doesn’t everybody wish this would happen to them?
Slow Hands was the song that made me start listening to Niall’s music and I love it. The raspy vocals and the melody are really catchy. On this song the girl chases the boy and he’s actually happy about it.
In Too Much to Ask we meet melancholic Niall again, reminiscing about a relationship that has just ended but still hopes for another try. A heartache that is carried over to Paper Houses and Flicker where we’re told more about this love that had everything to be right but faded away.
Since We’re Alone and Fire Away talk about helping someone opening up and musically break the sad tone of the previous songs with a tune that I always imagine playing whilst driving in a car at sunset in a summer afternoon.
Flicker’s last track, You and Me gets us all daydreaming about finding the one at the end of a hard road of broken hearts and empty promises. It’s a beautiful closing track.
It’s a 4/5 for me. Top tracks: On the Loose, Slow Hands, Since We’re Alone, You and Me.
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2017 marks Taylor’s return to the limelight after three years of hiatus, silence and much public scrutiny.
She sent social media into a frenzy with cryptic posts and without much explanation ahead of the release of Look What You Made Me Do, the first single of reputation.
A revamped image and sound set high expectations for the release of reputation, an album made of 15 highly commercial pop songs, pretty much destined to be radio hits.
The old Taylor is still recognisable on her very personal lyrics, but her sonority is far removed from her country roots. Of course, every artist is allowed to experiment new sounds, but that’s exactly where I believe Taylor got lost – most songs on the album could have easily been interpreted by any other artist currently on the charts.
I can understand the point she’s making by calling out her critics and tell her version of events on reputation, but there’s a fine line between that and give critics more food for thought.
Who knows if the real her is actually what she portraits or how she’s portrayed in the media? It could all well be brilliantly mastered PR.
Going back to reputation itself, this is an easy listen album, without much depth and catchy lyrics that stick with you and become more gullible when you’ve listened to them a couple of times. It does its job of topping the charts and reinforcing the ‘queen of pop’ status extremely well, but the musicality is gone.
Don’t Blame Me, Delicate and New Year’s Day are probably the best tracks on the album.
I’d give it a 3/5.
She sent social media into a frenzy with cryptic posts and without much explanation ahead of the release of Look What You Made Me Do, the first single of reputation.
A revamped image and sound set high expectations for the release of reputation, an album made of 15 highly commercial pop songs, pretty much destined to be radio hits.
The old Taylor is still recognisable on her very personal lyrics, but her sonority is far removed from her country roots. Of course, every artist is allowed to experiment new sounds, but that’s exactly where I believe Taylor got lost – most songs on the album could have easily been interpreted by any other artist currently on the charts.
I can understand the point she’s making by calling out her critics and tell her version of events on reputation, but there’s a fine line between that and give critics more food for thought.
Who knows if the real her is actually what she portraits or how she’s portrayed in the media? It could all well be brilliantly mastered PR.
Going back to reputation itself, this is an easy listen album, without much depth and catchy lyrics that stick with you and become more gullible when you’ve listened to them a couple of times. It does its job of topping the charts and reinforcing the ‘queen of pop’ status extremely well, but the musicality is gone.
Don’t Blame Me, Delicate and New Year’s Day are probably the best tracks on the album.
I’d give it a 3/5.
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