Without him the group loses some of its distinctiveness and slowly morphs into four goofy white guys shouting. But he leaves a void of personality, a void of vocal agility. The remaining members of One Direction have only performed a few concerts without Malik, so it’s hard to determine if his subtraction from the group creates an imbalance in the harmonic attack. A lot.) I think this is the source of a lot of their appeal their voices and the instrumentation, which is usually minimal guitar figures against fluorescent banks of synths, cause their songs feel like a form of glam rock that’s rushing at you in three dimensions. It also makes One Direction songs near-impossible to simulate at karaoke without profound breath and pitch control. It’s an arena rock aesthetic, treating harmonies as if they’re a system of collapsing stars it gives the condensing voices a kind of internal velocity. In most One Direction choruses, five voices of varying integrity collapse into a single, compact chord.
His solos, especially on the ballad You & I, could be dazzling, his voice moving with grace through impressive aerial designs, and he contributed body and dimension to the group’s choruses. At one point in This Is Us, while on tour, he is extracted from sleep by songwriter/producer Julian Bunetta to record the bridge of Best Song Ever, into which Malik compressed a tenor and falsetto vocal. He mostly inhabited a silvery, full-bodied tenor, similar to but more sharp and precise than Harry Styles’ smoky warble. He was one of the more accomplished vocalists of the group, exhibiting the widest range. An enduring image of One Direction is of Malik in the Night Changes video, the soft and intricate cascade of his hair merging with a dense knot of spaghetti. If there's one thing that Zayn can do, it's singing his heart out. Its styling never quite collapsed into the strange vertical animals emerging from the skulls of Tomlinson or Niall Horan. Zayn met the love of his life, fathered a baby girl, and sustained a successful solo career all by his 28th birthday. His hair is also shapely, shimmering and kind of incandescently dark, as if permanently enhanced by a follow spot. These features were identifiable even early in their careers when the other four members appeared to be one elastic teenage face. When I look at the structure of his face I am reminded of a geometric prism, or the interior of a geode. He’s also frankly gorgeous, all sculpted, glossy angles.
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