

The follow-up to FOUR is due out by the end of the year.

"Drag Me Down" is One Direction's new single and will presumably act as the lead single from the band's forthcoming fifth studio album. If this is One Direction without Malik, well, it's not so bad after all. The song also has one of the more fulfilling drops in One Direction's career, with a searing energy and intensity that fans are sure to respond to. Musically, "Drag Me Down" is the epitome of an arena anthem with hand claps slowly building in the chorus that are sure to power the rest of 1D's On The Road Again Tour. "All my life, you stood by me when no one else was ever behind me / All these lights, they can't blind me / With your love, nobody can drag me down," Liam Payne declares with a passionate determination in the chorus. In a way, the single could be read as a letter to One Direction's dedicated fan base. 1 support system in your life and sticking around when no one else could. Moving away from the '80s-heavy influences on FOUR and Midnight Memories, "Drag Me Down" is a guitar-filled, emotional and empowering anthem. In the wee hours of Friday morning (July 31), 1D dropped its first new single from its FOUR follow-up, the bass-heavy anthem " Drag Me Down." One Direction - Drag Me Down (Letra y cancin para escuchar) - All my life you stood by me when no one else was ever behind me / All these lights that cant. Nobody can drag me down Nobody, nobody Nobody can drag me down I got fire for a heart I'm not scared of the dark You've never seen it look so easy I got a river for a soul And baby you're a boat Baby you're my only reason If I didn't have you there would be nothing left (nothing left) The shell of a man who could never be his best (be his best. We now have a sense of what a One Direction without Zayn Malik sounds like.
