{"id":490875,"date":"2019-10-03T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=892865"},"modified":"2019-10-03T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:03:06","slug":"niall-horan-goes-rock-for-alluring-new-single-nice-to-meet-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/niall-horan-goes-rock-for-alluring-new-single-nice-to-meet-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Horan Goes Rock for Alluring New Single \u2018Nice to Meet Ya\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NiallHoran.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/niall-horan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_niall-horan\" data-tag=\"niall-horan\">Niall Horan<\/a> has returned with a new single, \u201cNice to Meet Ya\u201d \u2014 a pop rock track that features long-time collaborator Julian Bunetta as well as Tobias Jesso, Jr. and Ruth-Anne Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>The song starts with an urgent piano riff that builds up to include hand-claps, a sturdy bass line and the rest of his dynamic full band. Horan sings of a flighty lover that he can\u2019t quite shake. \u201cOne minute you\u2019re there\/The next one you\u2019re gone\/Been waiting on you all night so c\u2019mon,\u201d he sings on the bridge. \u201cYou know what I need I need\/You know what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been nearly two years since I released <em>Flicker<\/em> and I can\u2019t wait to get going again,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cWriting \u2018Nice To Meet Ya,\u2019&nbsp;in particular, was a special one for me and I\u2019m so excited to finally share it with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horan\u2019s 2017 solo debut <em>Flicker<\/em> showcased his folk-pop taste, while this new single is decidedly more rock. Jesso, Cunningham and Bunetta all contributed to that LP as well as Maren Morris, who sang on the single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/see-niall-horan-maren-morris-sing-acoustic-seeing-blind-628737\/\">Seeing Blind<\/a>.\u201d Earlier this year, Horan teamed up with Julia Michaels on the duet \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-julia-michaels-niall-horans-romance-fall-apart-in-what-a-time-video-791661\/\">What a Time<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/niall-horan-nice-to-meet-ya-song-listen-892865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niall Horan has returned with a new single, \u201cNice to Meet Ya\u201d \u2014 a pop rock track that features long-time collaborator Julian Bunetta as well as Tobias Jesso, Jr. and Ruth-Anne Cunningham. The song starts with an urgent piano riff that builds up to include hand-claps, a sturdy bass line and the rest of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 20:19:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}