everything we know about each song on dinner party 🪩🫧🍷✧˖°
• taste so good: “I don’t know what you’re made of, but tastes so good to me.” - “Track one is the closest thing to a metal song I’ve got.” sexy song!!! - “I think ‘Tastes So Good’. It’s quite aggressive for me – in a great way. Inspiration-wise, I listened to a lot of Radiohead making this [and drew from] Thom Yorke’s melodic standpoint of, like, not having many words in a phrase… I was just trying to drag the phrase out with not a lot of words. [Whereas] usually I would try and fit in as many words [as possible].”
• dinner party: - “this song is about a really happy and big moment in my life. an evening at a simple dinner party that changed the course of my life. after writing the song , the words ‘dinner party‘ became the nucleus for the rest of the record. that once in a lifetime moment that i am grateful for and for everything that came after that night.”
• monochromatic: sexy song!!! - “For clarity: be monochromatic is to be naked.” - “I remember writing down monochromatic’ and then afterwards thinking ‘well, if you’re naked, you’re monochromatic’, simple as that”
• she gets it from her mother:
• better man: - acoustic - niall wrote it in 10 minutes!! - “Better Man was like, I just wanted to find a different angle. I think if you find yourself being an asshole sometimes, being grumpy, being maybe not, you know, 100% your best self all the time. […] Basically saying to the person: ‘Because I’m a bit of a prick sometimes, I would understand if there was a better man out there for you. Like you deserve more, or do you?’. You know, your brain is kinda doing flips. […] I spend a lot of time away, and [I] feel guilty and you know, she’s there and I’m travelling all the time, and I’d like to be at home more. All these little things and you’re like “Fuck yeah, I would understand if there was a better person out there for you”. […] It’s one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written.”
• little more time: - GQ: "Little More Time,' may as well be an anthem for any 30something looking down the barrel of midlife. In the nostalgic early-aughts jam, Horan sings about turning clocks upside down, stretches out each melody and verse like it's stuck in honey, and begs for one more song like a reveler coming to terms with last call at their favorite karaoke bar— a Bernard's Watch for the adults in the room. - Bernard's Watch is a 90s childrens show about a boy who could stop time - “In my head, I was thinking: All right, can we just stop it here? And we’re the only ones that can move. The plane can’t take off that I’m about to get on.”
• flowers: “your eyes could grow flowers” - inspired by a tweet he saw! - about not knowing how other people perceive you as so amazing - written in 2023 & started the concept of the album
• boys are fun:
• fighting over nothing:
• pretty: 🎶snippet here!
• die if i don’t: “I might turn the wheel just to drive past your road.” - Folk and celtic sound. - Made with Beoga (trad Irish band). - It’s about when you have a falling out and need to give each other space. - “I just love the idea of If I don’t see you, I’ll die. But if I do, I’ll also die. It will kill me to see you and it will kill me if I don’t see you. […] I’d have to navigate what I would do in that scenario. And I just felt like I would be driving around just trying to avoid but also trying to bump in.”
• end of an era: “We had it, pure magic. Remember what it was like. Time passes so fast and I couldn’t tell you goodbye.” - Wistful lullaby sang in a melancholy tenor. - The song builds to a chorus that accepts time has passed, while the music resists it, ending in an intense outro that highlights the conflict between reality and memory. - It’s about the fear of losing someone and loss in general. - His grieving process for his friend Liam Payne was partly expressed through the song.
• mia: - target deluxe track