Ever wanted to jumpkick Isaac Newton as Albert Einstein?
Science Kombat lets you do just that.
Mind of Mine is a debut record, one made after five years in what’s been painted as a sort of musical captivity, and Zayn has plenty of time to iron out the kinks in his solo work. But he’s jumped to the highest echelon of male pop stardom with impressive speed, and he’s desperate to be taken seriously. It’s hard to imagine a more stone-faced collection of songs about being young, beautiful, and inebriated.
And the lyrics — all of which were written by Zayn — are mostly terrible. Take “Pillowtalk,” which invites you to marvel at the discovery that beds can be used for more than sleep and sexual activity. “It’s a paradise / And it’s a war zone,” he groans. It reads like a feverish diary entry written on an end table after an unusually dramatic wet dream.
A mid-priced homage to the company’s celebrated premium products, LiveSexy promises to bring “affordable luxury” to the market, finally making the aspirational Jimmyjane a much more accessible brand.
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Microsoft’s I3D research group has figured out how to create a live hologram of another person to be placed in another room. A massive array of 3D cameras in one room captures an entire person’s movements and speech in real time, then projects them into another room where a HoloLens user can see them and interact with them.
“Digits,” with its see-sawing trap beat, is as thrilling as anything Thugger has ever done. “Worth It” is vulnerable and gentle; a wedding song for your coolest friends. The tape as a whole is limber and stretchy, spanning all of Young Thug’s finest concepts. It’s even further proof, after we’ve already gotten dozens of hours of proof, that however much structure or hype the industry throws around Young Thug, his music can still stand on its own.