I felt a really big urge to post this because I still love One Direction. Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and One Direction performed "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" with classroom instruments... all while wearing ugly Christmas sweaters.
I am completely obsessed with Ella Henderson's new song "Yours" from her new album, Chapter One, set to be released in January.
The song is vocally beautiful. She has such a flawless voice that is complemented so well by this song.
Hearing her sing this reminds me of her X Factor audition back in 2012. She auditioned with an original tune and blew the judges away.
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I can not wait for her album to come. I loved her first single "Ghost" and hearing "Yours" really puts me on the edge of my seat. There's talk about her possibly being the new Adele? I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
The questions of the day are: Why haven't I posted in weeks and why am I just posting about this topic now? I unfortunately can't really answer either of them.
Remember when I said how I was really hoping I would like One Direction's new album more than Midnight Memories? That hasn't quite happened...
Yes, the album is very good, and yes, their sound has evolved a lot in the past year, but there's something missing with this album that was present with their third record. For one thing, this album doesn't have the edge they were saying it was going to. I heard months ago that this was going to be a very edgy album, something along the lines of Midnight Memories.
The boys have made it clear that this album connects the most with them since they contributed to most of the writings - yes, that means they're written from personal experiences. "Fool's Gold" is supposedly about Harry Styles' ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift. Call them even because she has some songs about him, too.
But apart from growing socially, musically the boys have shown growth from a boy band to a man band with the album. "Fireproof" is a soft-rock tune that, according to Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone, can be compared to Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" with "Christine McVie-style keyboards."
"18" is my favorite track. Co-written by Ed Sheeran, the song starts off with an acoustic, like most of the tunes Sheeran has written for the boys. Then with the second chorus comes a wave of percussion and what could be a group of string instruments.
"Night Changes" was the second single released for the album. The ballad's music video was directed by Ben Winston, who also directed the videos for "Story of My Life" and "Best Song Ever," their highest peaking song at number two on the Billboard charts.
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Listening to the whole album shines a light on the evident '70s and '80s rock-influenced tracks. Out of 5 stars, I'll give the record 3 1/2. They worked extremely hard on this album and it is clear in the lyrics and the compositions, but I still wish they had tracks like "Little Black Dress" and "Little White Lies" on this album.
