Niall Flicker DLX Listening Party
Added 2020-07-16 17:11:03 +0000 UTCWow this is my fav release from niall. wow.
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I like Heartbreak Weather, but nothing beats Flicker for me. On a Maren tangent. She has a song called The Bones that Hozier sang on his instagram stories then they redid it as a collab.
Sarah
2021-02-10 16:29:56 +0000 UTCI love this album so much
Amjad
2020-08-07 22:43:30 +0000 UTCSame! Never been a fan of 1D but I love their solo work
Dwayne Mason
2020-07-21 16:01:51 +0000 UTCI truly love Niall
Dwayne Mason
2020-07-20 00:48:31 +0000 UTCyou're 100% right, this album is incredible on vinyl. I've put it on so many times when it's late and raining and I can't sleep. Here's niall doing an unreleased song, champagne lovers, on a stream! the audio quality is pretty decent, especially with good headphones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4uzc-NtKJ0 i think you'll really love it, if you check it out for yourself or in a video :)
Grace
2020-07-18 05:17:35 +0000 UTCThis is the first time I've listened to Flicker all the way through and I'm so glad I did.
Ari
2020-07-17 22:40:10 +0000 UTCYou should check out when he recorded live with the RTE Orchestra. Beautiful renditions of these songs with a full orchestra! AND there's an extra song that definitely should have been on the main album! I would love a reaction to the extra song - So Long.
Bronwyn
2020-07-17 12:00:43 +0000 UTCI totally agree with you, Too much to ask and Mirrors are absolute masterpieces. Let's be real you could say that about the whole album. But Flicker and Mirrors hold a very special place in my heart, because they helped me through some tough times and these were the songs I could cry to and afterwards feel better. One of the most rememberable lyrics for me is from fire away " I will steady your hand, when you're losing your grip. Even if I don't understand, you can talk to me". Makes me losing it every time
Sarah Doll
2020-07-17 10:10:46 +0000 UTCOkay, but, Slow Hands live JAMS!! That's a gate they put on his vocals but it's got more soul live. Maybe check out the performance at the Capital Jingle Bell Ball.
NJH Vote &Promo
2020-07-17 06:13:08 +0000 UTCHIS DEBUT ALBUM IS LITERALLY A MASTERPIECE. WE STAN NIALL SO HARD!!! If you enjoyed his song with Maren, you will love his song with Julia Michaels' (especially the live version they did on Corden) p.s: when you do This Is Us, make sure to do the extended version. It's only 20 minutes longer but it's worth it!
CAMILA
2020-07-17 05:18:30 +0000 UTCA lot of the critics when this was released said this album felt generic and messy... and I think they said that because Niall isn't Harry tbh. I think HS1 was much messier and more generic than Flicker, which felt cohesive and emotion driven to me... Fun facts, he didn't know where he was going with this album until he was writing in Nashville and went to a country festival and heard Maren. The album came together quickly after that when he embraced more country and folk elements. Those elements are things I, personally, very much missed in Heartbreak Weather which to me felt like it was trying so hard to be poppier. I think Niall is a country artist at heart and I think his best music embraces that. There are also some songs on Flicker that feel like hugs to me. The Tide and Fire Away in particular always feel like when my mental health is starting to break down, I listen to The Tide and cry while I try to hold on to mental stability. "The tide" becomes depression, or anxiety, or whatever it is and the "you" in the song becomes my mental stability. And Fire Away is permission to not be holding it together perfectly all the time. Those two songs are so important to me.
Zoe Eriksen
2020-07-17 01:50:02 +0000 UTCDo you not hear how heartbreakingly sad On My Own is? He's just sang this whole album about hoping this great love of his life doesn't leave him, he ends the standard edition on You And I telling them that he might be selfish and not the best boyfriend but at the end of it all, he sees them together... begging his love to understand that... And then On My Own we pick up an epilogue that tells us that it didn't work out and so now he just wants to be alone. Maybe it's better that way. He can drink and party all night and sleep all day and no one will say anything to him. He can be his selfish self and that's just okay with him. It's not that he doesn't want company of his lover, it's that they left and now he's just stewing in his own feelings... Because this is what he's goot
Zoe Eriksen
2020-07-17 01:29:33 +0000 UTCFlicker is just in some other level, no skips!
Uddipana Kakati
2020-07-17 01:18:14 +0000 UTCI was looking for this commentary!! Definitely he should
Sofía Reyes
2020-07-17 01:16:50 +0000 UTCYou’re posts make me so happy :-) I completely agree with you about Slow Hands. I think Heartbreak weather is still my favorite but he is so amazing in both! All his songs are so relatable and currently Flickr especially LOL. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and reactions with us! 💕 glad I’m joining you guys on here finally
Mary Abby
2020-07-17 01:12:09 +0000 UTCA couple things: 1) with you on Slow Hands, it is my least favorite on the album; 2) Maren Morris is country & opened for him on tour. She was nominated for 4 Grammies in 2017 on work from her solo album, she won 1 for My Church. You would love her. And 3) I tweeted you about this but Niall did a live studio video of song Flicker, that is even more stripped down, and it is amazing. You can find it here: https://youtu.be/BUaLnDL3f-M.
Kristin
2020-07-17 01:07:15 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite solo 1D album. There's not one song I skip on this one. Niall had two huge radio hits with This Town (the lead single) and Slow Hands (and another with Nice to Meet Ya from HW). He's having a very successful solo career. I totally agree that Niall has this great storytelling ability which really makes the listener feel what he's singing. Actually, fun fact is that all five of the 1D boys have at least one top 40 Billboard single, and have all had radio play (in the US) with at least one single. So, it's not all about Harry like some people try to act like it is. They're all doing great!
L McB
2020-07-16 21:15:18 +0000 UTCI totally prefere this album!! it's so Niall, there's no another way to put it
M A
2020-07-16 21:09:11 +0000 UTCAdditional thought(s): the very first time I heard Flicker (the track) live... I legit ugly cried. It was so quiet in the venue you could actually hear a pin drop. And when the last note faded away, the silence lingered before anyone actually reacted. It was an unreal moment to experience. You can feel his pain in the album version... but live... nothing prepares you for it. You can literally see him go back to the head space he was in when he wrote the song before he even strums the first cord and by the time you get to the chorus the first time, you're in tears cause he takes you there with him. It's quite the experience live.
Casey
2020-07-16 21:04:51 +0000 UTCgo back and listen to heartbreak weather, and compare the two!!! i love listening to the growth!!!! but both albums are amazing and very underrated!
Breana
2020-07-16 21:04:08 +0000 UTCI love everything about this reaction video. Took me back to the first time I heard the album in full and cried through half of it because that's what I'm good at. You are NOT WRONG about the campfire vibes because that's exactly how I feel every time I listen to this album (my marshmallows would also be burnt). The harmonization between Niall and Maren at the end of "Seeing Blind" live is... *chef's kiss* HIGHLY recommend looking for any live performance of "Slow Hands" from his Flicker World Tour cause his vocals live on that song are ACE and so so different from the album version! Also HIGHLY recommend watching his cover of "New York State of Mind" from his Jones Beach (pretty sure) concert - be prepared for your soul to leave your body cause mine did. Also... if you enjoyed Maren on "Seeing Blind," I think you'll enjoy both of her albums. I don't listen to country music, but her albums are on heavy rotation in my house and car.
Casey
2020-07-16 20:57:00 +0000 UTCcan u post the full uncut reaction to heartbreak weather???
Breana
2020-07-16 20:52:56 +0000 UTCYes! Everyone only know it's Zedd, but she's freaking singing in it and no one knows haha
thaismontesso
2020-07-16 20:49:39 +0000 UTCI'm glad you love Mirrors, it's one of my favorites. But I cry every time hahaha
thaismontesso
2020-07-16 20:48:51 +0000 UTCRight! Its so weird to me so many people know that song but not her!
Mal
2020-07-16 20:44:52 +0000 UTCyou NEED to watch more of his live performances!!!! and his covers of ny state of mind, and life in the fast lane!!! also watch his snl performance of put a little love on me!!! he sounds exactly like the studio version and it’s just so gooood!
Breana
2020-07-16 20:13:26 +0000 UTCYou probably know Maren from "The Middle"
thaismontesso
2020-07-16 19:48:03 +0000 UTCSteven you should totally react to Maren Morris' two albums! She has an amazing voice and her stuff might appeal to your yeehaw side lol especially since you love early Taylor and are doing Kacey Musgraves tomorrow!
Mal
2020-07-16 19:39:47 +0000 UTCOkay. Story time. I was never a 1D fan... they just never really appealed to me. But I randomly decided to listen to the boys’ solo projects a few weeks ago. I listened to Harry, moved on to Niall, and no joke, have been listening to Niall ever since. I just completely fell in love with him, and now I’m really sad that I didn’t discover him sooner while we could go to concerts. Side note: I love Maren Morris, and random, but her husband, Ryan Hurd, covers False God and it’s amazing.
Michelle Bourey
2020-07-16 19:34:39 +0000 UTCMaren Morris is a Grammy award winning artist. She's huge in country. She actually opened on tour for Niall. She would come out and perform it with him. Maren and Niall performed it on the CMA's too. Niall also has a song that didn't make the album that he's mad about. He only performed it on tour. It's called "So Long". The also was asked to do the sound track for the movie "Small Foot" but he was on tour so he wrote and performed on tour a song called "Finally Free". They used it in the movie and for part of the promo. Flicker has also been recorded with the RTE Orchestra. So there is another version. There was a TV show he was on where they showed him performing with the orchestra. I have videos of it if you'd like to see it.
Mary
2020-07-16 19:26:33 +0000 UTCEnjoyed this so much!
Chris
2020-07-16 19:21:45 +0000 UTCSo glad you like it! He wrote one more song for this album called So Long but pulled it before it was release and he himself said that it was a huge mistake! So much so that he recorded it when he released the live with the orchestra version of this album (WHICH YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT)
Val Flores
2020-07-16 19:06:16 +0000 UTCMaren is a country artist which is probably why seeing blind has yeehaw vibes for you
Dianne Janssen
2020-07-16 19:03:44 +0000 UTCYou do Flicker World Tour Live from Amsterdam for a series!!! You can find it on YouTube.
Liv R
2020-07-16 18:59:51 +0000 UTCListen to 'So Long, live at the RTE Radio Studio 1, Dublin, on YouTube. Full orchestra. No need to do a reaction vid, I just think you'll love it.
Tracie
2020-07-16 18:43:05 +0000 UTCThis is short when HS1 is only 10 tracks?!
Teresita Elise Davis
2020-07-16 18:42:21 +0000 UTCGlad you like this album. Great debut from Niall. He and Taylor Swift write the most amazing sad lyrics ✨💕🥺
KATHY
2020-07-16 18:32:07 +0000 UTCCould you also react to more of his unreleased songs? Wasted, So long and Champagne lovers:)
Malene
2020-07-16 18:31:29 +0000 UTCAlso just a fun fact. If you search for concert footage of the song Flicker you won't get very far. At that point of the show Niall would get everyone to shut up, turn off the phones and just listen to the song. I can tell you it as a moment that people on those shows won't forget. His concerts for the first tour were amazing. They were intimate even and big enough venues and his merry band of men (aka his band) is amazing.
Sónia Santos
2020-07-16 18:31:21 +0000 UTCFlicker is definitely better than Heartbreak Weather for me. Lovr HW, but Flicker is just brilliant. It is a great album to listen over and over again!
Bells
2020-07-16 18:29:08 +0000 UTCSo so good, I knew you would love it! This Town was the lead single, then Slow Hands, then Too Much To Ask and then On The Loose. He closed his U.S. FWT shows with Mirrors which you absolutely should check out because if you love the album version hearing it live is otherworldly!
Emily Rampe
2020-07-16 18:23:14 +0000 UTCI saw him on tour for this album 3 times.. i love him so much
Cheyenne Beebe
2020-07-16 18:22:03 +0000 UTCAbout the high notes, if you watch live videos of the early years, you can see that a lot of the high notes are Niall's. You definitely need to check them.
Sofía Reyes
2020-07-16 17:56:05 +0000 UTCLove it!!!
Sofía Reyes
2020-07-16 17:48:34 +0000 UTCI knew you would love Flicker. I love HS1 but Flicker was the best debut solo album of the boys for me. Yeah Harry made up for it by making Fine Line but Flicker will always remain amazing.
Sónia Santos
2020-07-16 17:13:02 +0000 UTCLets do this. Im so excited:))
Liki
2020-07-16 17:11:39 +0000 UTC
