Tues 19 Jan ‘21
With two Zayn lives behind us, fans were excited to think they'd gotten an idea of what to expect and settled in, ready for another late night/early morning live-- to no avail! The sun rose all around the world with no sign of Zayn, except an ad bit for the Harry Potter game thing (a video of him being like "I updated my avatar to show my new hair" with his hair from last month) and him demo-ing the NIL insta filter (it's a little video game!) We were told to expect a surprise today, remember, as of press time I remain unsurprised, but with us going on Zayn Standard Time for this promo one could argue that there are still like 13 hours left in today! Some zquad (pronounced zgwad as Zayn helpfully sounded out on the last live though tbh I think the time he spelled out how to pronounce it was funnier) were hopeful that today's live was delayed for zomething more exciting, and some justified his absence like so: technically the first ones were after midnight where he was, so if you go by what DATE they were done on, he's already done today's! I mean... I GUESS. Anyway, (Nobody is) Listening Parties were scheduled for today, the second of three days they'll happen on; one of today's already happened without any major excitement but the other is this evening sooo? Surpise me! The earlier one featured exclusive merch, a cool t-shirt which you can also get by tuning in tonight, and the Zaynbot in action ("are you excited?!" "who wants some airhorn?"). And for now, there is a playlist takeover on spotify (Pop and Play playstation playlist). 25 Zayn curated songs and a new picture (from an old photshoot) for the cover! Note that only the first 25 songs on the playlist are his picks though, not the ones below. And NIL was the most played album on spotify this weekend worldwide! Nice. I also am enjoying seeing pictures of the big promo posters in cities all over the world, very cool looking.
Don't Worry Darling resumed filming, and Harry Lambert said "isn’t it weird to think five or six years ago, something like that could cause such a stir?" about Harry's black and white floral suit and he means in the eras of fashion, but it hits hard when you think about Harry (Styles)' personal journey in that way too, doesn't it? We've come a long way, baby.