BLACKPINK’S JISOO and Zayn Explore Contours of an Improbable New Love on Smoldering ‘Eyes Closed’ Duet

New emotion is exciting, analyzable and sometimes confusing. Those emotions, and overmuch more, are explored connected the caller duet from BLACKPINK‘s JISOO featuring Zayn Malik. The K-pop prima began hinting astatine the surprise, smoldering duet “Eyes Closed,” earlier this week via a mysterious teaser featuring a shadowy antheral silhouette lasting down her with the cryptic operation “EYESCLOSED” and the caption “a duet is near.”

It dropped connected Friday (Oct. 10) and it finds the brace trading verses astir the exploration and excitement of a caller love, with JISOO starring disconnected the ethereal ballad with the lines, “Time is lasting inactive and I don’t wanna permission your lips/ Tracing my assemblage with your fingertips,” earlier erstwhile One Direction subordinate and solo prima Zayn responds, “I cognize what you’re feeling and I cognize you wanna accidental it/ I bash excessively but we gotta beryllium patient.”

The brace past commercialized lines successful the dreamy chorus astir however a emotion that shouldn’t enactment is someway perfect, particularly erstwhile you don’t effort to marque it marque sense. “‘Cause idiosyncratic similar me/ And idiosyncratic similar you/ Really shouldn’t work, yeah, the past is proof/ Damned if I don’t/ Damned if I do,” they sing implicit soothing, bubbling synths, a spare bushed and acoustic guitar strums, alternating lines earlier joining their voices for the heart-swelling chorus: “Oh, we should autumn successful emotion with our eyes closed/ Better if we support it wherever we don’t know/ The beds we’ve been in/ The names and the faces of who we were with.”

The duet comes much than 3 months aft Zayn was spotted attending BLACKPINK’s New York amusement connected July 27, accompanied by his daughter, Khai. After the show, helium shared a photograph from the assemblage with the caption: “@BLACKPINKOFFICIAL THANK YOU 🙂 ME & KHAI LOVED IT,” starring fans to speculate astir the transportation betwixt the 2 artists.

The duet is JISOO’s archetypal caller euphony since the merchandise of her solo EP Amortage successful February, which features tracks including “Hugs & Kisses,” “You Love” and “Earthquake.” JISSO is connected the roadworthy present connected BLACKPINK’s Deadline satellite tour, which volition prime up again connected Oct. 18 with the archetypal of 2 shows astatine Kaohsiung National Stadium successful Kaohsiung, Taiwan earlier continuing on to Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippin...