{"id":71793,"date":"2025-10-10T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:39:09","slug":"listen-to-jisoo-and-zayn-maliks-soulful-collaboration-eyes-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71793\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Jisoo and Zayn Malik’s soulful collaboration, ‘Eyes Closed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jisoo<\/a> and Zayn Malik<\/a> have finally released their anticipated collaboration, \u2018Eyes Closed\u2019.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Jisoo \u2013 \u2018Amortage\u2019 review: playful, polished pop on her own terms<\/a><\/p>\n

Released today (October 10), the track was first teased earlier this month by the BLACKPINK<\/a> star, marking the singer\u2019s first new material outside of the record-breaking K-pop girl group since releasing her \u2018Amortage\u2019 mini-album earlier this February.<\/p>\n

\u2018Eyes Closed\u2019 is a soulful and tender pop track that sees the pair sing about a romantic connection that has historically failed due to their respective pasts: \u201cSay, oh, we should fall in love with our eyes closed \/ Better if we keep it where we don\u2019t know \/ The beds we been in, the names and the faces of who we were with \/ And oh, ain\u2019t nobody perfect but it\u2019s all good \/ The past can\u2019t hurt us if we don\u2019t look \/ Let\u2019s let it go, better if we fall in love with our eyes closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jisoo and former One Direction<\/a> star Zayn Malik have also released a cinematic sci-fi inspired music video to accompany the track. In the clip, the two are stranded alone in a spaceship as they float around in space.<\/p>\n

Watch the music video for \u2018Eyes Closed\u2019 below.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the single\u2019s release,\u00a0Zayn alluded to new music coming out \u201csoon with another cool collaborator\u201d<\/a>, which fuelled fans\u2019 speculation that he would be teaming up with the BLACKPINK member ahead of its confirmation. The song\u2019s release also comes after the former One Direction star took his daughter to BLACKPINK\u2019s New York gig back in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Amortage\u2019 scored a four-star review<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0NME\u00a0upon its release earlier this year, with Crystal Bell writing: \u201cThere\u2019s always been an enigmatic quality to Jisoo, a sense that she keeps something just out of reach. On \u2018Amortage\u2019, she steps forward, but never too close, embracing pop\u2019s timeless pleasures \u2013 melody, emotion and a touch of mischief \u2013 with quiet self-assurance. It\u2019s not a reinvention, nor does it need to be. Instead, \u2018Amortage\u2019 plays to Jisoo\u2019s strengths, proving that evolution doesn\u2019t always have to be explosive to shake things up.\u201d<\/p>\n