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Scott Mildenhall: In the Mumblevision Song Contest, entries would be allowed to drag on for four minutes, and in the Mumblevision Song Contest, this would easily be top 5. Nevertheless, even for having more pronounced mumbles than Swansea (insofar as they actually are pronounced), it’s the loud bits that keep the song afloat, in a way that’s very nearly exciting. If Sia goes down in history for one thing, it may just be the eradication of verses.
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Alfred Soto: Mumbling like a drunk staggering into bed, Zayn does nothing over Greg Kurstin’s stentorian beat except submit or yelp. The theory that he has a musical personality fades when you consider to what degree “Dusk Till Dawn” sounds as strident as any Sia single.
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Katie Gill: This song started off so well: soft, calm, vocals over a minimalist piano accompaniment. It was something that I thought would be a slow ballad, which would be DAMN interesting coming from Zayn…and then the chorus hit and it became every single belting pop ballad that’s currently on the charts. AKA it became a Sia song. Just because you can take something to stadium pop levels doesn’t mean you should.
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Micha Cavaseno: You could always say Sia bulldozes the characteristics of whom she’s meant to support with her writing style, but with a year under the belt can we actually establish any reality to the myth that Zayn has anything to offer us? We’re not talking about simply securing hits, we’re talking about establishing anything. There’s a myth of Zayn being ‘the singer’ of his former band, but “Dusk Till Dawn” features as much vocal presence as anything Louis has done when he isn’t trying to roar along Fuller, giving us the most anodyne pomp-pop out. He’s proven time and time again he can’t identify a lyric of actual quality, perform a memorable melody, display any actual mastery of a style. Quite frankly, the continued insistence that we should be making Zayn a star when he’s had the worst offerings of his former home-base’s splintering, just because the kid has a decent looking face, feels a bit deluded.
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Thomas Inskeep: I absolutely hated Zayn’s duet with Taylor Swift, and this overblown, thinks-it’s-dramatic-but-it-just-sounds-silly ballad isn’t much better. Neither Zayn, nor Sia, nor producer/co-writer Greg Kurstin, bring anything worthwhile to the table.
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Ashley John: Traditional Indian music assigns specific times when ragas should be performed to align with the cycle of the day. From the dawn of the sun to its departure at dusk and each hour in between, it is said that the melody of the raga is at its best and most healing when sung on time. “Dusk Till Dawn” starts slow and builds with the boom of Sia’a voice, only to come back down during each of the verses. The two chart the rise and fall of a day, of a love. Zayn’s place in pop music is uncertain, and he’s done nothing to indicate any consistent behavior. But the beautiful raga of “iT’s YoU” and the final moments of “Dusk Till Dawn” make me think he’s keeping himself grounded still. 
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