O hail the music expert, you compared it to songs it doesn't sound remotely like but I guess when you state opinions as "facts" we should all just listen and agree right?
It all just comes down to whose opinions are worth something in the thread and whose are not... and some people (you included) are self-proclaimed music experts to tell someone what is correct and not. Funny you're doing exactly the same thing you accuse me of over and over again...
Now where did I say I am exactly? Or where did I say something to the likes of “it’s that because it’s that, if you like it or not that’s another question”? Is this reading comprehension failure number 3? I always added "to me", and I always said what I found similar with these songs (the arrangement –
where you freaking agreed. DO. YOU. EVEN. READ. AND. EVER. STOP. TWISTING. YOUR. WORDS!?!?).
I mean, you gave me nothing to work with, what am I supposed to do? I don’t know a 00’s boyband (or Westlife which you referenced) song which sounds like Fallen Angel, neither in melody, nor in arrangement. And you gave no clear example either, so what are we left with? Your feelings, great. Let me do the work now for you, since you're not willing to provide anything.
Take this piano cover for example, they’re amazing for breaking down a song.
4/4 time signature, ~ 90 bpm. Typical ballad tempo. Yes, boyband ballads, too.
We’re having the 50’s progression here. Basis is Db, Bbm, Gb, Ab – tonic, relative minor key, subdominant, dominant or I – vi – IV – V. This is the easiest version of the “4 chords structure”, because V is considered to be THE harmonic dissolve to I in Western harmony. Can we conclude it’s a boyband song from this? No, because it’s a phenomenon in a lot of popular songs, Wikipedia even states a list (with sadly no boyband song of the 00’s again, don’t have a Westlife song with this simple structure in mind as well). We’re also in Dur here. Usually these ballads are in Moll.
Melody? Super minimalist, we’re taking baby steps here, small progressions. Many seconds, biggest jump is a perfect fifth if I’m not mistaken – perceived as one of the most pleasant and cleanest intervals (since it’s in line with the V – I chord dissolving), and FA uses them a lot. Small corpus of notes overall. Is this also typical Westlife? I’d say no, they usually want to convey their heartache and rely on more dissonances and bigger intervals for the dramatic effect (My Love involves minor sevenths e.g.) and overall greater/brighter sound.
Also no key change in the bridge as Westlife’s songs like to rely on (they love that dramatic build up, My Love, Mandy, Flying Without Wings, w/e), but in the last chorus (similar to Tusse’s Voices).
I don’t think we need to talk about the vocals and arrangement again. It’s a stretch, but you could say there is some sort of vocal tone matching like boybands need to because of TIX using several layers of his own voice, as someone already mentioned. Might give the impression of a boyband because it brightens the sound. One-man boyband indeed.
So... yeah. Sorry, I don’t see it. If you see it, cool. But it’s that because it’s that and if I disagree, I’m just sensitive and defensive? Lol. At least we talked about your feelings.