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daydreamerdrew · 2 years ago

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Comics read these past two weeks:

Marvel Comics:

The Incredible Hulk (1968) Annual #8 and #238-243 and the Hulk stories in Hulk Comic (1979) #14-20 and #26-28

Within the main The Incredible Hulk book, I went from May 1979 to October 1979. Issues #238-242 were entirely written by Roger Stern and then issue #243 was only plotted by Roger Stern and then was scripted by Steven Grant. Every issue was penciled by Sal Buscema. Issues #238-240 were inked by Jack Abel, Mike Esposito, and Joe Sinnott respectively. And then issues #241-243 were actually inked by Sal Buscema himself.

In this batch of issues, the Hulk is told that his tragically deceased love Jarella’s body is being kept as a specimen in a lab at Gamma Base. Whether or not that’s true remains to be seen, but this is presumably the set-up for a storyline in which the Hulk attacks Gamma Base so that he can “make them leave Jarella alone.” Notably, neither General Ross or Doc Samson is currently at Gamma Base. Instead, Glenn Talbot has taken command of Gamma Base in the wake of Ross’ mental breakdown and Samson’s resignation in order to take care of Ross, and he intends to use this position to finally take care of the Hulk once and for all as this batch of issues also contained Betty Ross and Talbot’s inevitable divorce, for which Talbot blames Bruce and has vowed revenge.

Also of note is that Fred Sloan began writing a book about the Hulk from the sympathetic approach as his friend. He met with Betty Ross in this batch of issues and is intending to appear on a TV show to promote the book alongside Rick Jones, who is now a music performer. We haven’t seen Rick in this book in years and I think this is actually a really interesting context to bring him back. Though I would be most interested in an deeper look into Betty’s perspective on the Hulk. There’s also a mention of him trying to get in touch with the Defenders, but I assume that he won’t end up succeeding in that.

And the Annual was written by John Byrne and Roger Stern, penciled by Sal Buscema, and inked by Alfredo Alcala. It featured the first meeting and fight between the Hulk and the new Alpha Fight character Walter Langkowski, the Sasquatch. This new character is similar to Bruce in that he’s a scientist that can transform into a gamma monster, but very much unlike Bruce’s he’s in control of this process and he maintains his one personality in both forms. He also still has his prestigious scientific job and has a positive relationship with his government as he’s a member of a government-supported superhero team. The story has him attack Bruce to purposefully antagonize him into transforming into the Hulk so that he can learn which of them is stronger for the sake of scientific research, a reckless and completely unnecessary approach as Bruce was calm and would not have transformed into the Hulk otherwise, but then the subsequent battle endangers a civilian. This new character is even more of a foil to Bruce than Samson is, and while I don’t expect them to fight again anytime soon, they will again eventually and I am interested to see that.

Hulk Comic was a weekly British anthology magazine that printed 3-page black-and-white stories, some of which were entirely original and some of which were edited versions of previously published stories that were altered to fit into multiple-part 3-page storylines. I’m only reading the original Hulk stories. This batch of issues of Hulk Comic took me from June 1979 to September 1979. The original Hulk story in issue #14 was the last part of a storyline from the last batch and was written by Steve Parkhouse, as was the original Hulk storyline across issues #15-20 which had the Hulk teaming up with a mad scientist’s rejected defective monster creations against their creator, saving the mad scientist’s innocent daughter from her father’s madness in the process. And the original Hulk storyline across issues #26-28 was written by Steve Moore and was a super fun story in which the Hulk is captured by aliens and then at the end is returned to earth because he was way more trouble than he was worth. All of these stories were penciled by Paul Neary and inked by David Lloyd.

Fawcett Comics:

the four stories drawn by Harry Parkhurst in Golden Arrow (1942) #4

This issue was released in the spring of 1946. The writer isn’t known for any of these stories. I had largely finished up my readthrough of the western comics that Harry Parkhurst drew for Fawcett Comics in December, but I didn’t get to this issue which I had been planning on so I just read these four stories now in January. The Hopalong Cassidy and Golden Arrow stories drawn by him that I read ended up being pretty random and very much not the entirety of his work for on those characters, but I feel satisfied with what I’ve read of them for now.

the Captain Marvel stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #44-45 and in Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #25-26

Within this batch of classic Captain Marvel appearances, I went from July 1943 to August 1943. There is one Captain Marvel story per issue of Whiz Comics and four per issue of Captain Marvel Adventures for a total of ten Captain Marvel stories read in this batch.

I was really charmed by the detail in the Captain Marvel story in Whiz Comics #44 that the door to Billy’s office at Station Whiz reads “Captain Marvel and Billy Batson: We Make The News- We Give The News!” Sterling Morris also refers to Billy as Captain Marvel’s ��friend and partner.” Then the Captain Marvel story in Whiz Comics #45 showed that Billy and Cap both have desks in Billy’s office and when Billy’s in then there’s an “out to lunch” sign on Cap’s desk. Both of these stories were written by Otto Binder and drawn by C.C. Beck.

I also really liked a bit in one of the Captain Marvel stories in Captain Marvel Adventures #26 where Cap performs a ventriloquist act with a doll of Billy at a show to encourage buying bonds where he says “Stop following me around! Wherever I go, you pop up!” and he makes the Billy doll respond “I can’t help myself! You’ve got strings on me!” to which Cap says “Even though we have arguments, I guess we’ll have to stick together!” and the Billy doll responds “Yeah! We’re kind of wrapped up in each other, huh, Captain Marvel?” This story was written by Otto Binder and the art is tentatively credited on the Grand Comics Database to C.C. Beck.

Also, the installment of the Monster Society of Evil serial in Captain Marvel Adventures #26 was notably the first full appearance of Mr. Mind (we first heard his voice in issue #22) but neither Cap nor Billy recognized the little worm as Mr. Mind because they were expecting someone a bit more intimidating than that. This story was also written by Otto Binder and drawn by C.C. Beck.

Quality Comics:

the Red Bee stories in Hit Comics (1940) #1-24

This batch of stories covered the entirety of the original Red Bee’s existence and went from April 1940 to August 1942. The stories are all signed as being by “B.H. Apiary” which is very obviously a pseudonym. According to the Grand Comics Database, the stories in issues #1-8 are drawn by Charles Nicholas, in issue #9 by Saul Rosen, and in issues #10-24 by Witmer Williams. Some of the scripts for the stories are credited or tentatively credited to Toni Blum, but it’s unclear to me if it’s possible that she wrote all of them.

I decided to read through these stories because I thought that the concept of a character that fought crime with a single trained bee was legitimately awesome, and I did ultimately enjoy them, but I think that this character’s stories would have been better if the Red Bee had an origin story, the relationship between Rick Raleigh and Michael the bee was portrayed in more depth, Michael the bee was an overall more prominent character (because he’s what’s really unique and interesting here), and Rick Raleigh had a stronger supporting cast of characters to be invested in. My two favorite stories were the one in issue #8 and the one in issue #19 because they both had Raleigh teaming-up with a one-shot character that he interacts with throughout the story. I don’t think it’s necessarily impossible to achieve the same effect with Michael the bee even though he can’t talk, but I’m sympathetic that it’s not as straightforward to write.

Eastern Color Printing Company:

the Connie pages in Famous Funnies (1934) #21–22 and #25-27 and #30-50

Famous Funnies primarily reprinted newspaper comics, with some original content in its later years. The “Connie” newspaper strip, which was written and drawn by Frank Godwin, began in 1927 and ended in 1941. Within the Famous Funnies book, I went from March 1936 to August 1938. There isn’t a way to check when the specific Connie strips reprinted in this book were first published.

The stories in this batch of issues were actually noticeably different than the ones in the first batch, which primarily depicted Connie Kurridge as a young lady detective. Typical bases for stories were: Connie being hired through the detective agency she works for; Connie being asked for help from an acquaintance who had been falsely accused of a crime, typically thievery, and needed help clearing their name; Connie being hired by someone visiting her at home, which would typically be revealed by Connie as being the true culprit of the crime that wanted her to find someone else guilty; and criminals who’d Connie had repeatedly failed trying and failing to mess with her. The majority of the stories in this batch of issues weren’t detective stories, but instead depicted Connie as young socialite in the 30s. I already know that at some point in time this strip evolved into a science fiction one, but I’m not sure when and I’m not sure what other phases it could have had and how long they lasted.

Connie’s two friends Jack and Willy, who we saw a little bit of in the last batch as they are all in a detective agency together, were featured more in this batch, but within the context of young people’s social life and not as much as working detectives. Jack seems to be about Connie’s age and they’re both interested in each other but not quite fully dating yet, with Connie notably still having a bit of an eye for other boys. And Willy’s a bit younger than them both and is a little less mature and can be a bit mischievous.

It’s also interesting to see how the page formatting changes over time. Famous Funnies was the first legitimate ongoing comic book and the pages of the early issues are noticeably cramped and had tiny lettering, while now the panels have space to breath a bit and the lettering has gotten bigger.

Dell Comics:

the Scribbly pages in Popular Comics (1936) #6-8 and in The Funnies (1936) #2-8

Popular Comics and The Funnies both primarily reprinted newspaper comics with some amount of original content. The Popular Comics issues went from May 1936 to April 1936 and within The Funnies I went from October 1936 to May 1937. “Scribbly” was written and drawn by Sheldon Mayer, who had very recently turned 19 when the first story was printed. The stories feature the eponymous Scribbly, an excitable burgeoning boy cartoonist with a penchant for drawing on everything around with, both in homes and outside. There is one Scribbly story in Popular Comics #6-8 and two Scribbly stories in Popular Comics #9 and The Funnies #2-8 for a total of nineteen Scribbly stories read in this batch.

Scribbly is both a kid with delusions of grandeur and a prodigy. A good example of this is one of the Scribbly stories in The Funnies #2, in which a local candy store has put up a drawing Scribbly did in their window and, when Scribbly finds out his mother hasn’t gone to see it yet, he complains “Here I go workin’ my fingers th’ bone drawin’ a cartoon that people all over town are prob’ly talkin’ about by now, an’ my own mother my own mother ain’t got time to go around th’ corner to see it!” Of course, Scribbly is very out of touch with the reality of his career as a cartoonist. But, unbeknownst to Scribbly, his cartoonist idol Ving Parker has been searching for him because he’s seen Scribbly’s work and is legitimately impressed. When he overhears Scribbly complain that he doesn’t have a real desk to work on (“An’ another thing- here I am- almost famous already, an’ I haven’t even got a desk to work on! How can I concentrate on th’ floor like this? Huh?) and Scribbly’s mother say that she’ll only buy him a real desk once he starts making a good amount of money a week with his cartoons, his response is to purchase a drawing table for Scribbly and send it to him as an anonymous sincere admirer of his work. The end of the page is him watching through a window as a thrilled Scribbly opens his present and then walking home smiling about it. This dichotomy, born of Scribbly’s naivety and genuine talent, and the overall pleasantness of the world Scribbly inhabits, is very fun to read about.

In the very first Scribbly story, Scribbly is punished by a teacher for drawing in class, but he gets the last laugh when the teacher believes she’s settled the matter by having him write “I must not draw pictures in school” a hundred times and sends him home, only the then turn over the page and see that he’s drawn an unflattering caricature of her on the back. Over the course of this batch of stories, Scribbly meets his idol Ving Parker, who offers to mentor Scribbly and has Scribbly come live with him for a while (a series of events beyond even Scribbly’s wildest dreams: “all my life I wanted to see a real cartoonist- just to look at him- or- or- touch his hand”). Through this relationship, Ving Parker’s boss hires Scribbly to draw a comic strip for his newspaper, making him now a professionally accomplished cartoonist. The last story of this batch has Scribbly attending the prestigious Cartoonist’s Annual Dinner, where Scribbly gets to speak on the radio, introduced as “the youngest cartoonist in the world,” and charmingly first says “Gee- Hello, Ma!” The Scribbly stories in The Funnies go to issue #29, which is followed up by a 59-issue run in DC’s All-American Comics (1939). So far I have found that Scribbly lives in a charming world and that the events of his life are delightful to read about and I’m looking forward to continuing following this character and seeing how he evolves in the rest of the 1930s and into the 1940s.

This is my first time reading Sheldon Mayer’s work and I’m finding that he is, as reputed, an actual comics genius with great writing and art and one thing I’m very impressed with is the whole concept behind “Why Big Brothers Leave Home”. In The Funnies #2, after his little brother has annoying interrupted his work, Scribbly finally gets inspiration. He explains the concept to another kid in issue #3 (where he also fantasizes that Ving Parker, who he has yet to meet, will be impressed with the inevitable fame and prestige this will bring him) as a comic strip about how annoying little siblings cause big brothers to leave home. In issue #4 the call is made by Scribbly addressing the readers, telling them to write down what their younger siblings do to annoy them and send it to him. The strip then finally actually first appears in issue #5, a 1-row 4-panel strip drawn in a slightly simpler style than the main story, that is presented as Scribbly’s own work that’s accompanying the stories by Sheldon Mayer about him. I just think that this is conceptually so cool, a boy cartoonist character whose own cartoons accompany the cartoons about him. It’s adorable and it’s got me excited to see how else Scribbly’s career will be presented over the years as he inevitably grows.

Eternity Comics:

Spicy Tales (1988) #1-3

These issues of Spicy Tales reprinted comic strips that were originally published in Frank Armer’s Culture Publications pulp magazines. Pulp magazines primarily consisted of text stories accompanied by some art, so Frank Armer’s line containing comic stories was unique. The material of these comics ranged from slightly suggestive to sado-masochist with the material during the pulp magazine’s peak in the 30s being the most sexual and the material published in the 40s being much less so due to outside pressure to tame down the content. My understanding is that this is largely also true for the text stories.

And the rest of this comics round-up is under a cut due to the discussion of said sexual material (and a bit on the racist content):

There were nine 2-page Sally the Sleuth stories, all written and drawn by the character’s creator Adolphe Barreaux, reprinted from the November 1934 to May 1935 and February 1936 to March 1936 issues of Spicy Detective. In her first ever appearance, the story in the November 1934 issue, Sally infiltrates a gang hideout. Once inside, she finds a closet full of costumes and decides to “make a quick change and fool the gang with their own tricks.” This does not work out for her as a couple of the gang members happen to walk in after she’s taken her clothes off but before she’s put a costume on, and she’s captured and chained up in her underwear. Fortunately for Sally, Peanuts, her kid assistant who she left on guard, spots her through a window and gets the Chief, Sally’s boss at the detective agency, for help, who storms the building with a few guys and rescues her before the gang members get to have any fun with Sally. Unfortunately for Sally, this isn’t really a great start for a character. The rest of the Sally the Sleuth stories in this batch are a mixed bag. The very next one has Sally solve a murder all on her one, and another woman largely serves the role of the sex appeal. Sometimes Sally purposefully uses men’s attraction to her body to infiltrate criminals’ lairs. Sometimes she’s just in the unfortunate enough position to get her clothes ripped off in the course of trying a different approach. Though she’s usually left in her underwear and her boobs being completely exposed isn’t common. And the violence towards her is usually limited to how she’s captured and restrained by men with the implication of what might have happened had she not been rescued in time. Sometimes she’s the driving force behind the criminal of the story being captured. And sometimes she largely just serves to get captured, get in her underwear, then get rescued.

And there were also three 4-page Sally the Sleuth stories, also written and drawn by Adolphe Barreaux, which were reprinted from the April 1941, December 1941, and June 1942 issues of Spicy Detective. These comics were from when the publisher had to tone down some of the sexual content, but they very much aren’t sex-free. The story in the June 1942 issue is actually the most violent out of all the Sally the Sleuth stories published in this batch of Spicy Tales, with Sally’s sexually-charged torture not just being left as a hypothetical implication but depicted as a panel of a captured Sally in her underwear and on the ground as guy yanks on her hair and swings a whip down from above her, which is followed by a panel of Sally kneeling on the ground, facing away from the viewer, with stark black lines all across her back and the caption “The brute leaves Sally sobbing on the cold cellar floor.” Otherwise, I think that these Sally the Sleuth stories are genuinely a bit tamer than the ones from the 1930s with Sally not purposefully seducing men in the line of her work, fewer near misses of sexual torture, and briefer scenes of her in her underwear while being restrained by men themselves as opposed to being tied to something. Though I do have to wonder if the Sally the Sleuth stories from the 1930s republished in Spicy Tales are going to get even more sexual before they get brought down to this.

There were three 8-page Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, stories, written by the character’s creator Robert Leslie Bellem and drawn by Adolphe Barreaux, which were reprinted from the January 1943, June 1943, and January 1944 issues of Hollywood Detective. This is least sexual out of all of the comics reprinted in Spicy Tales so far with only relatively brief suggestive moments between Dan Turner and female suspects. The most suggestive one is probably the part of the January 1943 issue where he tackled a female suspect (which isn’t drawn as sexual as it would be in these other comics) and then, when he’s on top of her, says “talk or I’ll kiss the bejeepers out of you!” I’m not sure how much the limited sexual content has to do with the fact that these stories have a male protagonist or if it’s just because of the era these comics were published in as there has yet to be a Dan Turner story reprinted from the 1930s for me to compare the 1940s comics to.

There were five 2-page Polly of the Plains stories reprinted from the November 1936 to March 1937 issues of Spicy Western. Bill Everett wrote and drew the first two stories and the rest were all written and drawn by Joseph Szokoli. The Polly of the Plains stories were the most sexual and the most violent out of all the comics reprinted in Spicy Tales so far. The story so far is based around the events following Polly being kidnapped by the racistly stereotyped “Pancho” and with the change in writers that Pancho kidnapped Polly for ransom was largely dropped, and the character is instead motivated almost solely by his attraction to Polly. A scene in the January 1937 story depicts Polly as topless, her hands tied above her head by a chain attached to the ceiling, with an at most forlorn expression as she’s whipped in the back by her captor in an attempt to “tame ze leetle hell-cat!” A scene in the March 1937 story has Jean, Polly’s boyfriend’s sister, who has by this point also been kidnapped by Pancho, topless and tied to a chair with many bleeding circular wounds on and above her books from where her captor has tortured her by repeatedly pressing a lit cigarette to her skin, though the actual torturing is undepicted, with a similarly at most forlorn expression. Notably, the clothes on the girls in the stories (if they had any to begin with) will improbably rip or tear off for anything, and there’s ultimately little to no effort on part of the characters or their environment to tactfully cover certain parts, meaning that the Polly stories feature significantly more uncensored boobs than any of the other Spicy Tales content so far.

There were three 2-page Diana Daw stories from the November 1934 issue of Spicy Adventure and then one 2-page story, which picks up right where the November 1934 issue left the character off, in the February 1935 issue of Spicy Adventure. These stories were written by Robert Maxwell and drawn by Max Plaisted. These stories get the designation of being the most racist content reprinted in Spicy Tales so far. The structure of the Diana Daw stories is that Diana Daw is captured by a villain in each story and then saved by a man at the beginning of the next, only to be captured again by some new villain before the end of the 2-page story. The original premise is that Diana is an explorer in Africa searching for a legendary diamond mine, but with each new man that saves her from her various captors- so far the medieval knight Prince Baldwin, a brain damaged U.S. Marine who believed himself to be Tarzan, a mad scientist, and an African tribesman- it seems less and less likely that she’ll get back on the hunt for that diamond mine. This African jungle setting provides the opportunity for not the mere stereotypical portrayals of Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, or Native American people like some of these other comics contain, but full-on caricatures of Black people. As for the sexual content, Diana is stripped of her clothes by her first captors in the first story- though her boobs covered by either foliage and her hands- and she’s never quite able to fully recover them. Diana consistently manages to recover some amount of clothing and consistently is stripped again, with the effort taken to censor her body over time not being taken as consistently as it was in the beginning.

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sunshineandlyrics · 2 years ago

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Co-writers Rick Parkhouse and George Tizzard (Red Triangle Productions) posted this about the Bigger Than Me - Live from Milan version, on their IG story (30 September 2022) x

#❤️#everyone is proud of the song #Rick parkhouse #George tizzard #Louis Tomlinson #Robert Harvey #cowriter #Bigger Than Me #live from Milan #30 September 2022 #mine

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yemme · 3 years ago

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This is my favorite track on the album. It’s engineered to perfection. The melody. His vocal tone. The pause builds tension. Beautiful track. (Album)

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whosadrian · 5 years ago

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#Too Good to Be True #Danny Avila #The Vamps #Machine Gun Kelly #Bryn Christopher #George Tizzard #Phil Plested #Richard Colson Baker #Rick Parkhouse #Red Triangle Productions #Sony Music Entertainment #spotify #music #youtube

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skepticalarrie · 2 years ago

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Hi allie 🥺🥺 I hope this is not too much trouble but its hard for me to keep up with everything. do you know which songs from louis' new album we have information about already or the lyrics?? thanks

Hi, anon! We actually have good information about most songs so far, which is very exciting:

1.The Greatest: This song was leaked, here are the lyrics. And that's what he said about the song for Euphoria Magazine:

“That was specifically written as a tour opener, not necessarily an album opener at the time. Musically, it’s interesting. There’s probably not another song like that on the record. It starts the album with a statement of intent, which I think is important. There’s a certain ambitious level to that.” (September 1st 2022)

Also a quote from his interview for BBC:

Faith In The Future is dedicated to his avid fanbase. The propulsive opening track, The Greatest, is a celebration of their relationship. (September 17th 2022)

2. Written All Over Your Face: We have the lyrics here and here's a quote also from Euphoria Magazine:

[The album immediately switches it up and dives straight into “Written All Over Your Face,” an infectious indie floor-filler that we both agree is reminiscent of the first two Arctic Monkeys albums.] “I’m a big fan of that sound, big fan of that energy. I went into the room with these people I’ve done a few sessions with, and I said, let’s try and take this as punk as I can get away with. I suppose that’s where the Arctic Monkeys reference comes from; there are obviously punk elements within what they do.” (September 1st 2022)

3. Bigger Than Me: It's the first single from the album so it's by far the one we have the most information about, I couldn't put together everything he said about the song but here are a few things LTHQ shared:

It was written during summer 2021

It was written in London at Wendyhouse Studios with Robert Harvey, George Tizzard, and Rick Parkhouse

It was produced by Mike Crossey in Los Angeles

And here's a few quotes:

“We did it in London. We wrote that in London. There was a lot of pressure, at least I put a lot of pressure on myself in terms of what i wanted out of this first single. And I knew that I kind of, especially with how well the tour shows have been going on, I wanna keep this momentum going. I knew I had to come out of the blocks with something that feels pretty big inside.” Smallzy (September 5th 2022)

“I was nervous I’m not gonna lie, I’ve done quite a lot of shows this year which have stayed in the same set, so to add something new, and then to add that song - probably the hardest song I’ve had to sing vocally, it’s got that big chorus - I was nervous. But what surprises me everytime, the song has been out no time, and there’s so many people out there that know it already, in the crowd I mean, so naturally that fills you full of confidence.” BBC The One Show (September 7th 2022)

4. Lucky Again: This one also got leaked in August. Here are the lyrics.

5. Face The Music: It was written in collaboration with Dave Gibson. We also have a quote from BBC:

Coming of age is a theme that surfaces throughout his new album, Faith In The Future. On Face The Music, he philosophises that "good and bad and right and wrong are stories made up when we are young to scare us". (September 17th 2022)

6. Chicago: Jojo Wright said this about the song, here's the transcript:

“We went into the room, had a little chat […] and then he decided to leave the room while we listened to the music. He walks back in and I’m like “Who’s Chicago about? Who’s that?” He didn’t give me a crazy answer, but it’s about a person. […] He just appreciated the fact I had - that all of us were just curious! What is this about […] It’s just a deep track, it got me thinking who is this about, what happened…”

7. Common People: We have this quote from BBC:

Common People (not a cover of the Pulp classic) is about reconnecting with his roots in Doncaster. "When I get lost, I go back to where I started," he sings. "That song's just trying to capture how amazing the people are there. If you're one of us, we'll hold out our arms and we'll embrace you." (September 17th 2022)

8. Out Of My System: We have part of the lyrics here, this one was also written in collaboration with Dave Gibson. And here's a little quote about the song from Alt Press:

That incorporation of dance melodies is something that erupts on “Out of My System,” a pulsating, punk-tinged Arctic Monkeys-inspired track that recalls the heyday of early aughts indie rock. The day Tomlinson made the track, he had been listening to “Teddy Picker” or “Dancing Shoes” (he can’t quite remember), but he knew exactly what kind of music he wanted to make. “I went in and said, ‘Let's try to write a song that is as punk as I can get away with,’” he recalls. And he led with that kind of intensity and energy from early Arctic Monkeys albums to craft the song. (September 6th 2022)

9. Angels Fly: Nothing

10. Saturdays: All we have is the people he worked in the song with, it was registered in June 2022:

11. Silver Tongues:

Plus the quote from Euphoria Magazine:

With that, one particular track that Tomlinson is most pleased with is “Silver Tongues,” a joyful and wholesome moment that honors the little intricacies of his relationship. Once completed, he boldly stated it was the first time Tomlinson had written a song that he could imagine being sung by an artist that he is really fond of. “That song was a great part of the writing process,” he says. “On this record, I tried to write with less professional songwriters and more artists, and ‘Silver Tongues’ is a good example of that. What you get with that is a different level of care and love for what you’re doing, instead of making it about money and trying to get the single.” Another reason Tomlinson credits “Silver Tongues” for being so special is its authenticity. “It’s not trying to be anything that it’s not. We were not trying to write a single, and there’s just a certain level of energy to it,” Tomlinson adds. (September 1st 2022)

12. She is Beauty We Are World Class:

Plus the quote from Euphoria Magazine:

Faith In The Future is bursting with exciting moments. However, what might surprise fans the most is the fact that Tomlinson is delving back into the dance genre sooner than expected on “All This Time” and “She Is Beauty We Are World Class.” (September 1st 2022)

13. All This Time: Same as the above

14. That’s The Way Love Goes: We have two quotes:

After taking on a journey through various sonics, Tomlinson closes Faith In The Future with the melodic and most tender song, “That’s The Way Love Goes.” After playing around with the tracklisting, Tomlinson claims that he “couldn’t get away from that idea,” adding that “you’ve got two options to end the album: you either end with a slap round the face or a little ballad moment.” Detailing a non-sexual love between two best friends, Tomlinson is confident that this is a song fans are going to adore. “I think it’s an interesting story, an interesting visual going through the song. With the way the album is structured, it kind of fits nicely to finish on that message. I wouldn’t have been able to do that on the first album because there weren’t enough peak moments of energy,” he says. Euphoria Magazine (September 1st 2022)

Tomlinson’s focus on intensity doesn’t extend to every song on Faith In The Future — at least not overtly. While he would have left the listener (hopefully) wanting more with “a wall of sound” on a record’s final track, he approached Faith In The Future’s closer “That’s The Way Love Goes” differently. The song, which was his take on the vulnerable simplicity of the Streets’ “Dry Your Eyes,” was the only track he could end the record on — one about a friend encouraging another friend to get over the fact that he’s not in a relationship anymore. “It's not the fact that you're not sympathizing. You're looking after him from afar, but you're not necessarily a shoulder to cry on,” Tomlinson explains. Alt Press (September 6th 2022)

The 4 extra songs: Headline: We have the lyrics here Holding Onto Heartache: Nothing :( Saved By a Stranger (demo): You can listen to the demo here and here are the lyrics. Paradise: Also nothing so far.

#ask #faith in the future #long post #the greatest #written all over your face #bigger than me #chicago #out of my system #silver tongues #that's the way love goes #fitf track list #mine #masterpost

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strangenewfriends · 4 years ago

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Who was it Louis was writing with?

Robert Harvey: lead singer of an alt-rock band called The Music, guitarist and writer for one of The Streets albums and tours, has also worked in studio with Clean Bandit, Rudimental, MNEK, The Six, etc.

Super-Hi/Red Triangle Productions: Rick Parkhouse and George Tizzard, have done some of their own electronic based music recently but otherwise have worked with a bunch of artists including 5S0S, The Vamps, Auryn, Cheryl, The Struts etc etc

#asks #anon

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1ddiscourseoftheday · 4 years ago

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Fri 28 May ‘21

Zayn’s rap EP??? Dropped yesterday???!? “Breaking my silence” says Zayn on Yellow Metal- Cathartic (Zayn is Yellow Metal here) and he DOES in 24 minutes of political, personal, complex and lyrically dense rap zoems! It was leaked/dropped whatever you wanna call it by being posted to Z’s cousin’s account (like the cover the other day); but clearly Zayn is behind these drops and that’s what matters, he is releasing this stuff in a way that will get to the fans but not inspire the media uproar (or contract issues) that posting to his own accounts would. As he says “don’t say I can’t communicate, you know I conversate with you in several different ways”, plus “I’ve had enough of being my own enemy, come a long way since 17, I have a few things to say when I get up on a microphone, I didn’t give up on fame I need this time like therapy it’s just to keep me sane… and to be honest it’s offensive, offensive to my still open wounds, trying to ask me questions they know they don’t have I ever replied, I prefer to sit down be online and respond to fanart,” I LOVE THAT. And the political content?! “What a family needs, and the planet bleeds, the damaged trees, it's never leaving to a real sense so FUCK THE FEDS” (or fuck the fence, not clear, either way, YES ZAYN!), “the snake that’s called Biden, none of them abiding by what they put in writing we should be used to it by now say whatever for the vote and then just chose another route say they’ll never kill another unless that brother’s skin is brown” and “been facing the racists back when I was a kid...kicked me out of the schools, they had a problem with me and the kids that would call me paki still sit in the classroom chilling, and now that I’m older I see they treat us different, got me thinking I was the problem cuz they never dealt with those issues, 20 years later I’m still in the same boat, tryna treat me like my grandpa, say I came up off the boat, came to tell you what I stand for, man I think this shit’s a joke. How can I be civil, when they got me by the throat, ‘Boy your skin is so light’, ok motherfucker take my name up on a flight, try to convince immigration that your bloodline’s half white, my name ain’t on the list unless they label it ethnic.” HELL YEAH ZAYN. PLUS: “never lose me to fentanyl, scared when I take a benadryl,” not gonna lie I LOVE to see this GOOD good good, "just became a dad so now I’m taking all the checks" HA yes get it, "trying to be a better person than the world deserves to see," and, “with a cigarette, sun coming up, write my thoughts on the internet, feeling deep, I'm just bored with the silhouette, get fucked up for the thrill of it,” “I’m just here for the rap then I’m leaving.” AND SO MUCH MORE all in Zayn’s excellent voice and accent, a GIFT that’ll take much more than a day to really unpack and appreciate!

And happy 28th, Louis is writing music! Looks like he is working with producer team Rick Parkhouse and George Tizzard in London (they call themselves Red Triangle Productions and put out music as SuperHi)- they posted a studio picture and tagged Louis. He’s just visible in the booth, singing. Also present- writer/ musician, Paul Whalley and songwriter Robert Harvey (The Music, The Streets) who were both posted and tagged Louis in as well. Louis followed Harvey. Hell yeah, what a line up! Not only that, Jamie Hartman answered a ProjectKMM participant’s question about other songs with Louis-- are they still working on new stuff? He says “I’m sure Louis has been working on new songs with lots of people!” [as we see, yes] “But yes we have done some too- who knows what will make the next album but he’s a top man and I would always write and hang w LT.”

Harry won Best Lyrics for Adore You at the iHeart Awards and Best Cover Song for Juice but failed to take the Artist of the Year or Song of the Year Categories, but more exciting than that- he’s listed as the Director of a new cosmetics and perfume company!!! People have been speculated about him doing something with Gucci Beauty for a long time now (he’s been noted to use their cosmetics, and definitely models their nail polish), and he has of course done perfume ads for them- there’s speculation that this could be for something with them, or it could just be a new thing of his very own. Well the Harry Styles palette would be a damn hit and we all know it, bring it on!

Anne Marie’s Big Weekend performance aired today and yes! She did Our Song with Niall! It’s the performance they recorded last week or so that we saw the pics from, yay first time getting to see them play it, but it was very quickly followed by the next time as their Jonathan Ross show performance also aired! And in case you’re sad about Niall’s previous promo buddies being replaced, there’s no need for that, he’s only adding to the pack; he tweeted Julia Michaels just today, “love ya hules” AWWW. He posted a bunch of cute OS video bts pics too, followed Oprah Winfrey and said he’d like to go to space and that he “would have liked to have been” a godfather to a 1D boy’s baby but “maybe the next one.”

Meanwhile Liam is looking at the fanart submissions he asked for- he retweeted a terrific drawing of himself laughing and said “this is amazing!” and liked a couple of other art posts. Feels like it’s about time for a monthly Liam catch up video, perhaps? Something else to look forward to!

#zayn #yellow metal #louis tomlinson #harry styles #femme harry rise!!#liam payne #anne marie #28 may 21 #ZAYNN!!!! from least likely to spill the dirt to just DOING IT just like that #LOVE HIM #appreciate him and his relationship with the fans so much

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