#icarus falls promo

[bitty-bytes]

BIRTHDAY PROMO!!!

Hey everyone! I'm Bitty and I fall in love with at least one guy per consumed media. This is my curse.

I am a 26 year old she/her who dabbles in writing and the occasional drawing!

You'll find me mostly gushing about Shieda Kayn from League of Legends (recently just enamored with his Musicverse AU self), Hades from Kid Icarus Uprising, and Guzma from Pokemon Sun/Moon!

I'm down to chat most of the time! Come say hi!

Proshippers, get hit by my psionic beam attack.

[shyanshippingsociety]

Shyan Shipping Society Fic Promo - November 2022 - January 2023

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holiday parties and the new year, the perfect excuse for some shyan fic! check out everything our members wrote from november 2022 to january 2023! and if you’re interested, check out our new years fic exchange masterpost!

november

Who You Gonna Call? by Golden4278 | G, 2K, on-going

Ghost Busters! AU

Simple Math by TheMouthKing & tripwirealarm | E, 118K, complete

While filming Ghost Files, a joke goes off the rails and lights a long-ignored fuse between its two co-hosts, but what’s initially just some fun fooling around under specific parameters leads to increasingly complicated feelings, and when a situation brings those feelings under a microscope, a choice has to be made.

Icarus Falling by teresa_agasgi | T, 1K, complete

When Shane flies too close to the sun he needs something to fall back to.

aka Ryan comforts Shane

Something Unholy by PlatinumPussycat208 | E, 2K, complete

“I’m glad you’re taking this investigation very seriously.” “I just want the ghosties to come and fuck around with me!” - Shane and Ryan encounter a ghostly presence at St Ignatius, just not in the way they expected.

Anti-Heroes by Golden4278 | G, 800, on-going

What if the hero and villain were secretly best friends?

Ryan and Shane are broke students at New York University, studying photography and journalism respectively. When they each stumble upon the other's secret, the boys come up with the brilliant idea to make some cash reporting on their own escapades.

Don’t Ever Change by ouijaboy | T, 1K, complete

“Look at how clear the night turned out! There’s not a cloud in sight!”

Ryan shifts grumpily again, and tucks his hands into his armpits. “Or a flying saucer. You’ve made your point, man.”

[Ryan takes Shane UFO-watching. It goes about as well as expected.]

December

Curios and Curiouser by live_from_new_york | T, 3K, complete

“Nothing in this store is haunted. Because ghosts aren’t real.”

“Oh,” Ryan said, “That’s where you’re wrong, buddy. Ghosts are real. There are several documented paranormal encounters, even just here in LA!”

Shane runs an antique store and struggles to take Ryan seriously.

Button up your Overcoat by PhyllisDietrichson | E, 7K, complete

Don’t ever get into the P.I. business with a head full of ideals and a whole briefcase full of compunctions. It’s bad for the profit margins.

A Very Little Christmas by denimwrapped | G, 3K, complete

Shane's a witch. Ryan doesn't know this. At least, not until he stumbles upon Shane's enchanted grimoire, which hits him with a curse - and on the day before Christmas, no less. Luckily, Shane's already on his way to see his family, who should be able to undo this magical mishap.

Of course, the witch thing isn't the only secret Shane's been holding onto.

And you still owe me by Haroldmay | M, 1K, on-going

Can you ever really move on?

~~~

With quick steps he moved forward and his gaze shifted around. The room was filled with all sorts of curiosities, big and small and most of them dusty. Several candles were the only light sources and he tried squint.

“Greetings!” He said, trying to be polite. “I come to you because I need a favor. A murder to be precise.”

"You come to me for this, on the day of my daughter's wedding?" Replied a voice out of the dark.

~~~

Disclaimer: This is just a little joke. More Meme than Fic. It's about the characters Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara and has nothing to do with the real people behind them: Brad Pistachio and Brian Cramblish.

Chain 4 U by ouijaboy | T, 3K, complete

"You know you’re supposed to keep your voice down in the library, right?"

Steven's just trying to get through his shift with Shane, but his friends are being super weird with each other. And each other's girlfriends. (Huh.) SMaShR, Steven POV.

January

I Could Lift You Up by ouijaboy | T, 5K, complete

WWW-inspired. Five times Shane made a big ol’ romantic gesture, and one time Ryan returned the sentiment. (Plus a little bit of ‘clearing the air’ in the middle. They’re trying their best, damn it!)

How to Befriend the Monster in Your Closet by Golden4278 | G, 143K, on-going

Ryan: Hi God, it’s me again. I just moved to LA and I’m really lonely. I need someone to be my friend, someone who understands me. Maybe… you could send me an angel? Yeah! The nicest angel you have.

Demon Shane: *LAUGHS MANIACALLY*

open the yawning grave by PhyllisDietrichson | T, 2K, complete

This close, Shane can see Ryan’s eyes are welling with unshed tears. But he’s smiling—he’s smiling so big and his voice is sure, and he sits right there on the ground, where there’s tree roots and tufts of grass and he tugs Shane against him and gently, gently, he works a firm hand under Shane’s jaw and kisses his chapped lips and Shane feels—something glow in his chest—and for the first time he draws breath without the stinging reproof of pain.

Haunting Hometowns by MmeBabs | E, 34K, on-going

“Just keep reading,” she says. Her face is undecipherable, so he continues. As soon as he reaches his band’s name drop in the article, his eyes shoot back up to hers. There’s a certain sparkle in her eye. “You haven’t gotten to the best part yet.”

“Did he – Did he call me Dave Grohl and then immediately shit on my music? I think I have emotional whiplash from this. I have so many questions.”

***

Ryan is the frontman of the popular band 'Ryan and the Phantoms'.

'Hunters and Gatherers' is Shane's one-man indie band from Illinois.

Their paths cross while out on tour.

Baby, I'm yours by tasty_littl_snack | NR, 500, complete

Ryan has to be doing this on purpose.

if you want to read some more fics, you can always check out our ao3 collection! see you soon! ♡

[isupportzaynxliamxziam]

Wednesday, , 18 July 2018/1

Zayn releases the third single of his album Icarus Falls, Sour Diesel by RCA Records . It’s written by Zayn himself, James Ho and Rob Cavallo and they, excepts Zayn, also handle the production.

The music video, which is directed by Sing Lee, gets uploaded on Apple Music. Via Instagram, Zayn makes a lot of promo for it

Zayn's Instagram: #sourdiesel 🎞 video on @AppleMusic

[zot3-flopped]

zayn is and always will be so much hotter and better than harry, harry was only put as the frontman in 1d bc he's white. if zayn had been given more spotlight than harry's ugly musty ass, he would've been so much more popular and everyone agrees (except harrie stans) 💀💀

Posting for comedy value only.

You think this is hot? 🤣

A pudgy faced stoner with an unkempt, grizzled beard?

Zayn actually had a better platform than Harry because he was the first to leave 1d. His team at RCA adored him with his label boss calling him 'an icon.' He was set up with Malay, the hottest producer around, and Pillowtalk was an enormous hit. The first red flag went up when Zayn refused to perform his number one single, but in 2017 he was still massive and released a collab with Taylor Swift. The spotlight shone brightly on him while Harry released a low key album of folk/indie songs and lagged way behind Zayn on Spotify.

2018, and it was time for hard work if the 1d members wanted to survive post band. Harry embarked on an eighty date world tour and proved he could sell out arenas because he is a phenomenal live performer, one of the best of his generation. Meanwhile, lazy, unreliable Zayn promised and cancelled appearances and live dates whilst doing daily pap walks with Gigi Hadid. The music industry started to distrust and mock him, and carried on doing so when he refused to make a single promo appearance for Icarus Falls.

Harry continued to make excellent music and to appear in public and perform it. Zayn retired to smoke weed on a farm, was convicted of a domestic violence offence, and last year was dropped by RCA and not picked up by another label. The industry has lost all respect for Zayn, whilst Harry just got nominated for six Grammys. Today, Zayn only has a few thousand angry fans left and is reduced to releasing covers.

[1ddenisels]

Thinking about this post, i’m glad that, not just here, but also on Twitter, SOME zquad members are finally realizing Sony Music (RCA) is fucking up Zayn’s career nonstop.

Shit is wrong for a LONG TIME, but since Zayn’s tweet addressing Sony/RCA's delay, it should be clear to y’all that he’s fighting hard to not only release this album but to also promote it. Believing in every topic on the official narrative doesn’t help him. Some things, like Sony's sabotage, are too obvious to ignore. I’m not saying he wants to sit in every late night show’s couch, but i firmly believe he wanted to promote the shit out of this album, and he isn’t allowed for now.

Imo, this isn’t much about money. It also happened with Michael Jackson and George Michael, for example. It’s more about power. Zouis ‘dared’ to stand up for themselves and the other boys. And this is a no-no in big corporations' book. 

Remember when Zayn went to Sony HQ in NYC  in 17.1.18 ??

Red Wolf tattoo on full display for the first time...

Right hand looking fine...

and the next day the knuckles were bruised???

“Hi, Mr. President, a pleasure to meet you Hope you feel my presence 'cause it's making a feature Working on instinct like an extinct creature Hands all lockin' me in, slide bleacher” - Good Guy  

Revisiting this, i think the reason he wore the “alienated” t-shirt the day after, has everything to do with what was happening in that meeting. He was fooled one more time. They probably said everything would work it out the way he wanted, but then he knows they will fuck him over again. Until when?

“I've been lying with the liars every night” - Icarus Interlude

If this isn’t January 2018, where he was pap strolling the whole month...

[1dreality]

Zayn Malik was never the celebrity you thought he was. If it wasn’t already obvious from his detached, often melancholic interviews in the wake of his 2015 departure from One Direction, it will be from the title of his second solo album. The very elongated 27-track Icarus Falls is comprised of more of the sparse R&B that Malik has perfected since his first release Mind of Mine in 2016, but like its titular myth is also indebted to themes of incredible ascent and crushing decline.

A decline not of Malik’s career, it should be said, but rather of his own mental health, the album serving as both an intimate meditation on Malik’s life so far and a dire warning about the trauma of instant fame. It all leads to one obvious question: Is Zayn OK?

In an age of millennial openness and Instagram confessionals, Malik remains something of an outlier: an enormously famous and highly visible celebrity, but one whose ambiguity allows us to project much onto him. In our collective consciousness, he has been the 1D-fleeing villain, smoking cigarettes, being mean to his bandmates on Twitter and looking miserable as well as the “soft boy” pin-up, a vulnerable figure in desperate need of a hug.

Much of that ambiguity is intentional. Along with declining to tour Mind of Mine, Malik is often press-shy, choosing not to take part in TV sit-downs or play the social media game in an era in which somebody like Ariana Grande spends much of the waking day interacting with her fans on Twitter and Instagram.

And while Malik has been open about some of his past struggles, including his battle with an eating disorder at the height of his One Direction fame and consistent difficulties with anxiety, they’re often revelations that feel accidental in nature. We learn of them during an unexpected moment of truth-telling between him and a journalist, the subject quickly changed soon after, or through lyrics that are just descriptive enough to imply deep truths. Even talking about his anxiety in an essay for Time Magazine felt like a necessary course-correction after a string of cancelled gigs led to unflattering rumours about his health in the press.

Whether Malik’s public persona is intended as a protective mask or not, it is still difficult, particularly in the wake of Icarus Falls, not to feel something for him. After all, his jump from a working-class kid to an international superstar worth a reported $50 million, practically overnight, is the sort of trajectory most of us would struggle with at the age of 40, let alone at 17 when Malik auditioned for The X Factor.

Icarus Falls doesn’t cover any new sonic ground for Malik as an artist. It sees him return to the same well of threadbare, silky R&B that helped Mind of Mine easily trounce his fellow One Direction bandmates in the “best first solo record” stakes. But it does whirr with a noticeable sadness, Malik repeatedly mourns the peace of his pre-X Factor past and beats himself up for mistakes he feels that he’s made since. And when he speaks of emotional pain, it often sounds not like something confined to history, but rather something he’s dealing with every day.

“I’d rather be anywhere but here,” he sings on Good Years. “I close my eyes and see a crowd of a thousand tears / I pray to God I didn’t waste all my good years.” On Insomnia: “I’ve been roaming and strolling all in the streets / Burning my eyes red, not slept for weeks.” On Back to Life: “I been flying so long / Can’t remember what it was like to be sober.” On Satisfaction: “Nobody said this would be easy / Nobody gave me a rule book to follow.”

Even typical love songs are fatalistic in nature, talk of Armageddon running through both Flight of the Stars (“I will follow / Hold you close standing on the edge of no tomorrow”) and Tonight (“Love me like tomorrow’s never gonna come”), while much of the album nods to an unnamed great love in Malik’s life that he needs to overcome incredible odds to be with – nothing new for love songs, but given a greater weight when paired with his statements over the years. Because if we know anything about Zayn Malik, it’s that he often can’t stand being Zayn Malik.

Through much of the little press he has done, Malik has expressed unease with most of the trappings of fame, particularly the assumptions that he ought to be personable and friendly with industry figures or musical collaborators. And when it comes to One Direction, he still appears burnt by the experience. While he told Vogue in November that he has recently been able to see his time with the band as “an amazing experience,” despite the “bulls---” of what he refers to as “the machine,” he also told GQ in June that he didn’t make any actual friends during the peak of his fame: “I definitely have issues trusting people.”

In the numerous articles that pop up every winter recalling how good The X Factor used to be, clips are embedded that showcase many of its most memorable contestants, and every year it becomes that bit more shocking how much One Direction looked like children during their time on the show. The scrawny limbs, those Justin Bieber haircuts, the awkward school-talent-show bopping and shuffling. It somehow worked, enough at least to turn them into a tween phenomenon, but in hindsight it’s indefensible that they were pushed as significantly as they were.

There was always something deer-in-the-headlights about the band in its early days, a sense that at least a few of them had been pulled along for the ride as opposed to having a firm grip on the steering wheel. The hunger so visible in pop bands of similar notoriety, whether manufactured or not, wasn’t always visible – and while all of them have transitioned into stable adults who are, for the most part, comfortable in the spotlight, their jarringly different responses to fame remain clear.

It’s important to remember, for context’s sake, that Malik was always a reluctant star. Only attending his original X Factor audition after being guilted by his mother into waking up early and making the journey there, he was, in his own words to The Fader, “a lazy teen”. And even during the audition stages, he expressed reluctance to properly join in, walking off stage during a choreography rehearsal and having to be coaxed to go back. At the time, Malik’s reaction registered as a petulant strop, but now feels oddly prescient.

Of Malik’s One Direction bandmates, Harry Styles was always the most naturally inclined to superstardom – such an affable schmoozer and networker that it was quickly no longer surprising to see images of him palling around with Mick Jagger or Stevie Nicks. Liam Payne always bore the personality of someone very eager to be seen, lack of self-awareness very much included, while the perpetually chipper Niall Horan has always simply appeared very, very happy to be there. But both Malik and Louis Tomlinson have often visibly struggled, uninspired by the more performative and fraudulent elements of celebrity, or the levels of attention handed to them by Simon Cowell and co.

“What I really can’t ever get used to, or really enjoy, are these super geared-up celebrity parties,” Tomlinson told Noisey last year. “No one actually cares. You see people who are beyond self-absorbed, and that’s why it can be a dangerous place.”

Malik has echoed similar sentiments. “I don’t work well in group situations, with loads of people staring at me,” he told GQ. “And when you say ‘star’… everyone wants you to be this kind of character that owns a room or is overly arrogant or confident. I’m not that guy, so I don’t want to be a star.”

What’s odd is that, for all his claims, Malik does bear all the superficial trappings of modern stardom. He’s a fashion darling but is permanently magnetised to the covers of cool indie magazines. Furthermore, his on-again/off-again relationship with supermodel Gigi Hadid has, since 2015, become a Generation Z equivalent of Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in its aesthetic-heavy, era-defining popularity.

But Malik is also simultaneously detached. The GQ profile, his most extensive recent interview, bears all the hallmarks of a journalist struggling to fulfil a word count because of an uncommunicative subject, writer Carrie Battan even expresses Malik’s tendency to reply to her questions in “friendly but anodyne one-liners.” Like the very best of pop idols, from Britney to Beyoncé, Malik is so compelling principally because he’s so hard to read. But this can also be a poisoned chalice: every expression of doubt or self-pity determined to be a cry for help, every revelation shaping an image that may or may not be real.

It means that listening to Icarus Falls isn’t an entirely joyous experience, Malik’s lyrics painting a picture of a young man still working through the discomfort of his sudden fame and the trauma of a moment in the spotlight marred by illness and fractured relationships, many of its scars still visible today. But it’s also a record that you can’t help but admire as a result, especially if it serves as a form of catharsis for him.

In the decade since Britney Spears was forcibly taken to the hospital surrounded by hundreds of paparazzi photographers, our collective relationship with the idea of fame has greatly altered, particularly for a generation who watched Amy Winehouse essentially die before their eyes. The one beneath them are currently coming to terms with a raft of recent pop star crises, from Demi Lovato’s overdose to the deaths of artists like Mac Miller and Lil Peep.

For all the obvious charms in Malik’s life, from his incredible fortune to a kind of artistic freedom that he never had in One Direction, you’d have to be particularly cold not to feel empathy for the sheer strangeness of his adult existence; a world of rampant, maddening attention that has historically led even the strongest of stars into tragedy.

The Zayn Malik of today is a little bruised, a little listless, his magazine profiles never complete without references to the cloud of marijuana smoke that lingers around him, or his need to lock himself away from the world. It doesn’t sound like the most ideal of outcomes for a man who calls himself a pop idol Icarus and sings with whispery detachment that he has “[flown] too close to the sun.” But we can only hope that it at least serves as a parachute.

[layoutspetal]

[request]

zayn malik + louis tomlinson ✰

like/reblog if you save

credits to njhicarus on twitter.

[redyellowberry]

PROUD.

KEEP STREAMING ICARUS FALLS, Y'ALL.

[neonredglow]

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[settingtrends]

apparently rca submitted zayn for the 2020 grammys

[icarusinterlude]

Remember that time when Z posted covers? I am weeping right now.

[yaz-the-spaz]

First Daniaal saying that the world is Zayn's and now Jawaad's post. I can't help but think that something is off.

yeah and also one of herbie’s most recent tweets:

…something’s definitely up

 i was just talking to someone about this and they were like:

‘Its like fam rallying around him knowing some shit about to be going down. Wonder if it has to do with Z’s number 8 debut on the digital albums chart for billboard yesterday…Bet they were like “bitch how?” We made sure you got no promo and got no physical albums out to sell, we wrecked you and yet somehow you debut at 8 on billboard’

and i honestly feel like this situation could not be summed up any better

like we already know his physical sales are getting sabotaged thanks to the many fans who’ve taken to sm to complain about stores literally not having copies cause the label didn’t send any to certain stores and only sent select numbers to other stores and it’s clear from the sm activity of those around zayn that there’s even more going on bts (cause none of them would just randomly be posting stuff like this esp knowing all eyes are on them rn and herbie in particular has been tweeting pretty much exclusively about the album recently so for him to now post this and outright call it sabotage like there’s no way that’s not about zayn and his album esp considering recent events) so like whatever’s going on it’s awful but at the same time not at all surprising, and very clear fuckery and sabotage tbh

always remember this:

yes it’s old but there’s no reason to believe it’s not still going on esp considering all that we’ve seen this year and esp even in just the last couple of months…

#SameOldShitButADifferentDay

(all credit to toni @somewhereisaplacethatziamknow for the screenshots)

[zot3-flopped]

I think one of the reasons for the lack of success of zayns past albums was cause of the messy rollout of his promo and his Instagram livestreams. He clearly has a lot of followers so i think if he does it right this time he could have a more successful era than maybe niall. Idk if he will touch harrys success, tiktok brings back artists with little promo but considering harry will be on a break, most of the attention of directioners will be on him (sadly the 1d fanbase grew with tiktok)

Time for a reality check.

Niall & Zayn US Numbers - Billboard 200

Icarus Falls: Lasted 1 week on chart, peaked at #61, sold 20k units in its debut week

Nobody is Listening: Lasted 1 week on chart, peaked at #38, sold 15k units in its debut week

Heartbreak Weather: Lasted 14 weeks on chart, peaked at #4, sold 59k units debut week

The Show: 2 weeks on chart ongoing, peaked at #2, sold 80k units debut week

Zayn's promo for NiL wasn't 'messy', it was non existent except for the adverts RCA paid for. Zayn made two appearances on his IG live, got mocked by the tabloids for smoking weed, and was never seen again. IF had a similar hands off rollout with the addition of two major print interviews.

NiL was released in January 2021, ten months away from any other 1d release. The one before it was HW in March 2020, and the next one was HsH in May 2022. 0t5s did not care about it despite having nothing else to focus on. Tiktok played a bigger role in blowing up music in 2021 than it does now and Zayn completely ignored it.

[1ddenisels]

“You can take it all off 'Cause this love ain't got no cost No excuses I'll be cursed for you It's just something that I say to you If you want it I can change”

[1dreality]

Zayn’s new album, Icarus Falls, isn’t a commercial hit.

I have to laugh when music sites drop an album review after only a day of listening. To really sink your teeth into new tunes means giving the songs a second to settle. Zayn’s sophomore record, Icarus Falls, needs listeners to do just that.

After my initial play, I gathered that the magnanimous 27-track LP was a cohesive list of bedroom bops. Zayn could stand to trim a couple of the tracks, but imagine how many were left on the cutting room floor. Icarus has a vibe, and it soundtracks the chilly winter months to the perfect degree. It’s a real shame it underperformed.

According to early estimates from Hits Daily Double, Icarus Falls will open up with 15,000 – 20,000 in sales plus streaming. Of that lot, just 3,000 – 5,000 are in pure sales.

Personally, I’m not a fan on sales figures and No. 1s. I don’t find myself in disbelief when an artist breaks a Spotify or YouTube streaming record, because I’m not convinced that artistry has a correlation to sales.

The real injustice here is that more people should hear Icarus Falls. Zayn really just dropped two albums worth of material, but the world is still somewhere streaming “Thank U, Next.” That is a good song, though.

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Tues 11 Dec

Louis was spotted dining out in L.A. by a source who says he ate meatballs and drank beer; a few hours later a London based industry person posted a pic taken with Louis the night of the X Factor final.

Liam offered relationship advice (sometimes it's not them it's you) and Niall offered advice about being online (ignore haters). Liam is also using his song to do promo for Polaroid and I will choose to believe that the song came first then the offer but don't even try to convince me the same is true about all those iPhone placements, I hate it but I will die on this hill.

This blog boldly promised you you'd never have to hear about Happy Together again but sorry not sorry, this is too good not report- the show was named in a Most Disappointing Shows of 2018 round up! SO SORRY Ben gosh we sure hope this doesn't get in the way of future projects going forward... Oh wait no we don't.

And finally, another new song from Zayn, plus the full track list for Icarus Falls. Discourse du jour- is the new song, There You Are, about Liam or is it about God? Choose your fighter!