But in the spirit of giving Horan's album a fair shot (outside of the social context it found itself being released in), I will say this song is just fine. Unfortunately, this one didn't fully deliver. I feel like I could move my hips to it. Watch the video for Heartbreak Weather by Niall Horan. (That's not actually how we're ranking them, but, you know.). Niall Horan 'Heartbreak Weather' Album Review: A sultry genre-crossing journey of the romantic and funky self. As fame took hold, everyone else got ill-advised tattoos, while blemish-free Horan spent his downtime playing golf. Ahlgrim: I'd probably skip this one if I ever listened to "Heartbreak Weather" top to bottom again. That may have set him up for failure considering I love the other songs mentioned. This is my favorite so far. On the title track, Horan posits that love has a magical, transformational power that can shift the cosmos and make lonely boys feel complete. Thanks to a lack of expectation, however, his solo career has blossomed. – but he quickly found his groove. I like "New Angel," despite its triggering idealism (no one can "save you from yourself," and women are not receptacles to pour your unrealistic expectations into), but it doesn't feel different enough from the songs I've already heard. “I promise that I’ll love you for the rest of my life,” Horan belts, in between weepy visions of their wedding day and homely golden years. For his catchy but charmless second solo album, the pop singer offers a loose-concept record that explores every angle of a breakup through the most pitiful of conversation starters: the weather. I'm bored. Overall, we thought Horan showed a lot of growth as a musician, but we aren't dying to listen to it in full again. Three years after his folk-pop debut, Flicker, Horan’s biggest challenge as an artist is to harness his ordinariness into being an exceptional everyman à la Ed Sheeran and Lewis Capaldi. "Put a Little Love on Me" is too generic and cheesy to deserve that assessment. Over and over again, he goes through the motions without ever really looking inward. It isn’t an entirely lost cause, but one to build upon for a more inspiring future all the same. Looking for smart ways to get more from life? Heartbreak Weather, Horan’s new album out at the end of the week, is much better.If he’s still making songs for boilerplate network dramas and young-professional mixers, this time they pop. This song has the most emotional weight of any of the tracks on the album. "Small Talk" starts slow enough, but the chorus introduces a twangy guitar riff that's quite simple but works incredibly well. It’s difficult to feel moved by the stakes of these grandiose statements because their meanings are so cliché, and not in the way that feels refreshingly familiar. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories, Horan may have joked that his timing of this album wasn't the best, someone who is social distancing and working from home, an ode to waiting out your anxieties in the age of self-quarantining, which is "Cherry," which is one of my favorite songs in recent memory, Michelle Branch's iconic 2001 hit "Everywhere,", what Horan was able to do with Taylor Swift's "Lover". "Bend the Rules" veers a bit country, with Horan dipping into a lower register I didn't even know he had. Larocca: OK, now I see why Horan was worried about the timing of this album. I know this goes without saying, but Horan didn't really "need a new angel.". For an artist that's clearly enamored with classic album structures, lush arena anthems, and '80s rock, this makes perfect sense as a closing statement. since. If you're going to emulate another act, let it be something that act would fully release. Ahlgrim: As someone who loved One Direction but never listened to Horan's debut album more than once, the title track of his sophomore effort immediately reminds me of "Four" and "Made in the AM" — especially melodic, guitar-heavy tracks like "Hey Angel," "Clouds," and "Change Your Ticket," which are some of my favorites. Here is what Ahlgrim and I thought of each song on Horan's album upon first listen. Reporter Callie Ahlgrim and I (Courteney Larocca, celebrity and music editor) each listened to the new album on our own, jotting down our initial thoughts track by track. It feels a little like Shawn Mendes meets "Up All Night." His vocals are velvety and all-consuming. Ahlgrim: This one is also too generic to really stand out. I'm glad I didn't listen to this song when it was promoted as a single. The women in his songs are painfully one-dimensional. The first couple of lines were a bit unintelligible — Niall, enunciate! Larocca: "Put a Little Love on Me" was the second single, and unfortunately, I don't think it fits within the context of this album. Ultimately, Horan's shown real growth here, while also reminding me of why I loved him so much back in his One Direction days. When he’s blue, like on the painfully maudlin “Dear Patience” or the piano-driven breakup ballad “Put a Little Love on Me,” it’s as if the sky is falling. "I promise that I'll love you for the rest of my life" is the kind of line I would expect from a Horan song. Like what you see here? The song is about longing for home, and it does that I-wish-I-was-somewhere-else yearning infinitely better than "San Francisco.". Larocca: On first listen, "Cross Your Mind" is the kind of song that you feel like you've heard it somewhere before, but you can't quite place it — and for a track titled "Cross Your Mind," that's actually pretty clever. Ahlgrim: So far, I'm super impressed by Horan's ability to craft a song that gets better and better as it goes on. Unfortunately, the groovy production is undermined by the uber-poppy harmonies in the chorus. Aside from the title being an obvious introduction, this track shows off Horan's vocals in a way that samples both the familiar and the foreign. Maybe it wouldn't stand out on the radio, especially thanks to its popular influences, but it feels fresh and different within the context of this album, like a warm breeze. Horan's "Everywhere" is the kind of song I wouldn't seek out or add to a playlist. I didn't have a viscerally negative reaction to it either, though, so I'd feel safe to dub this "pleasant background music.". I'm not tired of it yet. Across the rest of Heartbreak Weather, Horan is stuck in two mindsets: bereft or coltish, either haunted by the memory of a lover, or desperately trying to scrub her away. While the track employs some heavy-handed horniness—“I’m gonna take you somewhere warm, you know J’adore la mer,” Horan purrs because French makes everything sexier, oui?—it’s an easy guilty pleasure that is as charming as it is uncool. It's a fairly standard structure, but the outro's gloomy whistling leaves me feeling refreshingly intrigued.
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