I realized my Reviews are focusing a little too much in the East, so for a change I decided to look at the Billboard Top 40 and review the song which currently has the number 1 spot, which happens to be Pillowtalk by the death of One Direction, Zayn Malik (admit it, 1D was done for when he left).
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Let's get one thing out of the way: this song is BORING. This seems to be a common theme in Pop music today, and I'm not saying this because I'm a Rocker or a Metalhead. I listen to just as much Pop as I do Rock and Metal. I don't know who started this trend but everything is sounding almost like lounge music with a beat. It's just so weak and uninteresting, and this song is no exception. Another problem, there's not much to talk about musically speaking. The Music is all synths and drum machine, and it sounds generic, pretty much. The vocals sound good, although it's most likely autotuned. Zayn kinda slurs the lyrics of this song, he could've vocalized better. This song really gives me nothing to work with at a music level, it's boring and generic. I will give it it this, though. This song is about sex, pretty much, and I'm no sex expert, but I could definitely see people having sex to this song, or this song being used in a sex scene. The beat (while it sucks) does keep a steady pace (not too fast, not too slow). I don't think this was the intention of the song, but hey, it's better than nothing. Although, the bridge (where Zayn repeats "Paradise" and "War Zone" over and over again) destroys that pacing. Ok, so I got nothing here. It's not bad enough to hate and it's not good enough to like.
So, the song sucks, but what about the lyrics? Well, they are as generic as you can get. As mentioned before, this is a song about having sex. But in an attempt to sound poetic they throw this opposition gimmick we've seen a thousand times.
"We'll go slow and High-Tempo"
"I'm seeing the pain, seeing the pleasure"
"A Place that is so pure, dirty and raw"
"It's our paradise and our war zone"
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The lyrics aren't particularly bad, I think. Again, they're just not interesting. If we changed all the lyrics for "la" it wouldn't be a loss. The only part that really bothers me is when he sings "Nobody but you, 'body but me, 'body but us". PRONOUNCE "NOBODY" PROPERLY PLEASE. "'body" sounds stupid, and it has no purpose to be. I've sang the song, it still fits on the tempo. If it's a kind of joke, set up, or build up to the next line "Bodies together" then that is even stupider. If it's some sort of pun, you gave it away before you got to it, so it doesn't work.
Over all, is the song good? No. Is it bad? No. I've certainly heard bad songs on the radio in the past month, and this is not one of them. I wouldn't listen to this song, but if I were at a party and the DJ plays it, I wouldn't complain either. Why are people listening to it is beyond me. I guess is because people just need some background noise but I don't know. I would suggest you go ahead and judge for yourself, I stance on this song is a simple "meh".
