A day after announcing that he and Gigi Hadid bear welcomed a baby daughter into the arena, Zayn has welcomed any other introduction into this earthly realm: his most modern single, “Higher,” a aesthetic nick of R&B pop anchored by Z’s massive, massive train.
The breezy, endearing tune debuted alongside a sparse nevertheless stately video, where the closely tattooed new daddy Zaddy dresses himself in intelligent menswear and stares moodily out the window of a pleasant condominium — all while he’s being spied on. Like a celeb. Or an accurate behold.
As Zayn sings with crimson highlighted hair, “Your dad potentially loves me greater than he ever did now / ‘Cause I in the end acquired out / Yeah, we in the end knocked down,” there is a palpable air of 2nd chances in some unspecified time in the future of “Higher,” and or no longer it’s tempting to read his on-and-off relationship with Hadid into it, particularly now, given their new starting as folks.
On the easy cooing pre-chorus, Zayn repeats “I cherish you” over some completely nocturnal and subterranean guitar traces. In the video, he does diminutive greater than slowly keep on a shirt and a jacket while handing over the tune’s ice climbing melody, nonetheless or no longer it’s Zayn, so or no longer it’s worth looking out at.
“Higher” is the predominant new little bit of tune from Zayn since remaining year’s “Trampoline” remix with SHAED and “Flames” alongside R3hab and Jungleboi. His most modern album, Icarus Falls, dropped on the discontinuance of 2018.
If 2020 is certainly the initiating of some new chapters for Zayn — both in his tune profession and his gain family — then issues look like going reasonably effectively. Verify out “Higher” above.