[mellygrant]

i think ppm have been representing him for a while? its def not new i saw their twitter posts about zayn going back to feb (didn't bother going further)

Thanks! To be clearer, I didn’t mean they were new to Zayn, I just meant they were fairly new as a company (like, less then a year old, which is considered new). To be even clearer then that, it looks like they’ve been representing Zayn officially since July, which, if I had to make a Business Hoe guess based on what it looks like, I would say that someone who worked at BTPR decided to start their own Business Hoe-venture, and took their clients with them, since, for instance, Dua Lipa was also a former BTPR client like Zayn, and went with Permanent Press Media around the same time. Ho(e)pe that helps!

[mellygrant]

twitter(.)com/ZaynJMRadio/status/986645790817968129?s=19 🤔

I’m on mobile, so this reply is going to look real low rent like. For the (two) people reading this at home, Zayn seems to have a new PR team called Permanent Press Media, fresh out of Brooklyn.

They’re fairly new, and folks there have also previously worked at BTPR (Zayn’s former publicity team). To be real official about this, they also rep Rita Ora, Noel Gallagher, Dua Lipa “and more”, which either means you haven’t heard of the other ones or the intern tacked that on to make them sound more busy and important, like back in the day when I would sometimes say my “assistant” would get back to people, and by assistant I meant me, sitting in my underwear watching Golden Girls.

Best of luck to Permanent Press Media, and if they could please work on fixing yesterday’s shitpile left by Sarah Stennett, I would be grateful. 👍🏻

[mellygrant]

M, did you block me? I hope not 🇨🇭

I doubt it? You’re on anon, pickle, so I can’t know who you are unless you tell me

[mellygrant]

A fresh broom Melly. A clear out of the bathroom cabinet is in order. Lots of fabulous new Zerums and Potions. New team, new skincare, watch that complexion glow!!!!!

fuck, i hope so. Can that new team please address the goat rodeo currently in motion from Dan Wootton’s latest hatchet job? Because I would vair much appreciate that please and thanks

[mellygrant]

Melly- Z splitting from FAE is what a lot of people wanted though I could never figure out whether I disliked RCA more- just the timing just before Z2 and when he is supposedly in tour rehearsals seems so off. Give us your thoughts please!!!!

hiiii!

This was me yesterday when I heard the news:

I honestly think it was a long time coming - FAE has made a lot of rookie mistakes over the last few years. Here’s my thing - after reading the Variety & HDD FAE press release article that got distributed to everyone on the FAE rolodex if that were true, why not terminate their relationship 8 or even 10 months ago, when there appeared to be a flurry of no shows and cancellations, rather then terminate during what has arguably been his most active period in years these past few months? There’s even legit Scrooge McDuck revenue to be made here coming up for them, what with a new album and a planned tour (he’s even in tour rehearsals) - the Business Hoe Maths do not add up.

I said it yesterday, but you know what really doesn’t look good? When two of your biggest acts walk in quick succession. So, if you’re FAE, what do you do? You try and stop the damage so you don’t walk away looking like a team of  sweatys. They couldn’t get a jump on Ellie Goulding leaving, but they were able to get a jump on the stories regarding Zayn, and so they did. If I were petty (I am), I would say that this was probably the fastest work they’ve done on behalf of Zayn in their 3 years of working together!

What I do wonder in hindsight though, is if this visit by Sarah Stennett wasn’t her attempt at trying to get Zehn to reconsider whilst he was in his fancy Miami Music & Nap House:

“Sereh, ah hehve cuhlled dis meetin’ because yew ah fiahed. Theh lack of caht mehmes downloahded tuh muh phuhne wuz theh lahst strahw. “

“Guhdbai Sereh, deah’s an Ehdibuhl Arrenhngement foah yew ahn theh weh ouht”

I would be wholly nahhht surprised if an announcement about Zayn’s new management comes really soon.

[mellygrant]

😆😍😍😍😀😃😃😄😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😜😜😃😄😂🎉🎉🎊🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎊📯📯📯🎆🎇🎆🎆🎇🌠🥂🍾🍻🍹🥃⚡️🔥⚡️🔥💫💫💥💥💥🌈🌈🌈 all good vibes to Zayn today.

👍🏻👏🔥🎉

[mellygrant]

FAE are trying to spin the story and make Zayn look like the bad guy in this but... why?

Sometimes that's what people do in business as a Business Hoe move - rather then get egg on her boobs since she's also already lost Ellie Goulding to another management company recently, she can get the jump on Zayn saying he fired her, and instead make it look like she made the #Power Move to part ways with him. The optics still aren't great for her, but they're a smidge better for her this way.

[zaynmalikdaily]

First Access Entertainment Terminates Relationship With Zayn Malik

Manager Sarah Stennett had worked with the One Direction star since 2015.

Manager Sarah Stennett of First Access Entertainment has terminated her relationship with former One Direction member Zayn Malik, Variety has learned. Malik, whose second solo album is due in June on RCA, had worked with Stennett since his 2015 departure from One Direction. While the split comes at an awkward time — Malik just released the second single and video from the forthcoming album last week — sources say the artist is challenging to work with, declining many promotional opportunities and not touring behind his last album, although he is planning one behind the new set. Like the first single from the new album — “Dusk Til Dawn,” a collaboration with Sia released last fall — the new song “Let Me” features a big-budget video (helmed this time by “Narcos” director Jose Padilha) that stars Malik as an action hero. The split is the second high-profile departure in recent weeks for First Access, which parted ways with longtime client Ellie Goulding earlier this year; she is now with Tap Management, which handles Lana Del Rey and Dua Lipa. The company also suffered a crushing loss in November when highly touted MC Lil Peep died of an accidental drug overdose at just 21. However, First Access has a strong roster that includes Bebe Rexha, Rita Ora, and others, including a partnership with young British singer Madison Beer. A representative for Malik could not be reached for comment. When contacted by Variety, Stennett confirmed the news, adding, “Sometimes in life you have to make extremely difficult decisions to effect positive change for everyone.” 

By Shirley Halperin and Jem Aswad | for VARIETY

[mellygrant]

Zayn's termination letter to FAE:

[fyeahzaynmalik]

zayn:

[mellygrant]

What are your thoughts about the speculation that Zayn’s releasing a visual album? :)

I actually think it might be more then just a visual album? Given the fact that he’s mentioned the poems are going to be included in what is presumably a Deluxe Edition or Collector’s Edition or Melly’s Funeral Edition™, I think there’s more to it.

Liiiike, I think its a pretty fair assessment there’s an overarching plot to the entire album and that there will be multiple videos that tie it together ala Beyonce or Frank Ocean, but @queerlyalex had a theory that Zayn was recreating haircuts and at the time I was like “eh meh boob shrug meh”, but after the selfie from today where the eyebrow slit is back from this past summer, I actually think that might be not far off? That maybe part of the visual album really is an interpretation of the last year or whatever of Zayn’s life? I can feel in my boobs we’re close to finding out, so we just have to be patient for a smidge longer.

[mellygrant]

Melly it's soooo lovely to see you back, however briefly. I always love to read your posts - they make me smile whatever the subject, but woah, what a subject, what a day. :-)

thank you vair vair kindly pickle! It makes me happy to hear I made your day brighter (for realsies it does)

[zaynthegreekgod]

@zayn: when Life throws you lemons, catch em so they don’t hit you in the fucking face

[mellygrant]

You guys, I am a hundo percent here for a PR scenario where no one is dragged and shit is supportive, generous, positive and real adult-like.  I shall finish this last Dorito in peace.

[mellygrant]

Melly!!! You've surfaced. Moving on from Gigi, such old news already, I need to know your thoughts on what sunscreen potions Zayn should be using. I've seen him exposing his precious skin these past few weeks, and it's all I can think of. I hope he isn't ignoring appropriate SPF levels. It would be a tragedy, if not a crime, to undermine all the excellent work he does with his serums! What do you think?

Ok first of all I fully resent the fact that you aren’t even considering that Zayn, who has been traveling the world for years to source precious ingredients for his groundbreaking serums from the likes of the Alps, Anartica, and the Rainforest WHICH HE SHARES WITH NO ONE THANKS A LOT IM NOT BITTER AT ALL ZEHN, would have gone to Miami without making sure he had Nasa scientists create a special technology made from a molecule found only on Mars that allowed him to sunbathe optimally by ingesting a delicious avocado sandwich. Here he is eating the magic sunscreen sandwich right in front of you, laughing quietly to himself “dey duhn efin noah ah haf Nasa suhn magick”:

[mellygrant]

Melly! Big stuff happening, please come back! Zigi "broke up", do you think this is it or will we be seeing a getting back together story when/after Z2 drops? Miss you!

haiiiiiiiiiii

Ok, so I’m just feeling a lot of emotions rn? Because I thought Zigith was still going to be a thing through Q2 but sometimes, SOMETIMES you buy a regular pack of nipple tassels and you open them up and they’re made of diamonds?

Dan Wootton rubbed his hooves together and typed out his hoofsclusive on his typewriter from hell to announce the breakup of Z2, just days, a week tops mayhaps from Zayn dropping music for Z2. Such a random totally unrelated and extremely promotionally advantageous happenstance that has nothing at all to do with anyone’s content calendar or a bunch of middle aged white folks and a Yolanda in a conference room planning that out with spreadsheets and analytics!

Seriously though, hand to boob I am not even fucking with you guys rn, the thing I am most happy about in all this? Somehow, someway, my major award winning, serum innovating angelic mouth breathing child Zehn walked away from this without looking like the villain. I don’t know what kind of tuppence was paid, what kind of super wizard arranged this for Zehn, or if Zehn’s team finally got their shit together, but just:

“The source that was Yolanda added: “This is definitely the end for now, but this isn’t a bitter split and they both have respect for each other.”

Do you know how far we’ve come?  DO YOU? I raise a Capri Sun in thanks today!

[mellygrant]