I just went on Zayn's official youtube channel and I find it very odd, and maybe even a little sus how dramatic the difference in his video views are. His music videos range from 100M views to over a billion, yet 'Satisfaction' doesn't even have 6.5M, which is crazy low for an artist of his status. The largest and most obvious factor to me is the lack of promo his team gave him when IF dropped and how he was pretty much completely screwed over through all of it (1/2)
(2/2) Like wasn’t the scenes used for ‘Satisfaction’ MV supposed to be for an extended version of 'Flower’ back in 2015? But I can’t help but think that another factor contributing to the small number of views is the fact that Zayn didn’t have a commercial model to serve as eye candy for the world to see in the video either. 'Let me’ has over 100M views and when it came out that it was video of him and some hot skinny model, hetero Zayn got everyone intrigued. Heteronormativity sells.
agree with you fully on basically all of this, i don’t really have anything else to add lol