![]() ![]() ![]() The band launched into "Little Things," co-written by Ed Sheeran, whose name drew cheers of delight. Image Credit: Photo Credit: Joseph Llanes/Getty Images Seacrest asked Zayn Malik about his best-man plans, and the 1D star, who's engaged to be wed, confessed that he's thinking of an "unconventional" arrangement - "five or six," which would fit his band size. ![]() Louis Tomlinson confessed to the packed house that his offstage obsession is video games. PT, with The CW due to air the event on Dec. Yahoo Screen will host the concert and Q&A on Monday, Nov. Seacrest invited the band to freestyle rap - Liam Payne provided the beatbox - but no volunteers emerged, leading Seacrest himself to bust out with some Young MC. The band's fans were so primed to see their idols that screams broke out when a guitar tech took the stage minutes before the show began.Įmcee Ryan Seacrest asked each bandmember to name the celebrity they'd most like to date. The band played to a packed house in Burbank for the release of its album Midnight Memories. However, each perfectly formed little nugget of pop makes its way into your head just in the way you’d expect from a 1D album, and I hope they keep making them like this.Įven if I will still be listening in secret.Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy of Getty Images Some tentative rock influences do dart in now and then, notably in ‘Little Black Dress’, but you can’t listen to the album the whole way through without getting bored of the sound. It’s to their credit that the boys have had more creative input into this particular album, with Louis and Liam apparently writing most of the tracks themselves.I think their main issue is simply repetitiveness – they’ve cracked their sound and they’re keeping it, but perhaps keeping it too consistently. ![]() Some of the tracks even have an (almost)meaningful feel, such as ‘Half A Heart’. I challenge you to find a more uplifting getting-ready-to-go-out song than ‘Best Song Ever’ after a dull day of essay-writing. The first two tracks, their latest singles ‘Best Song Ever’ and ‘Story Of My Life’, really show off their feel-good pop vibe. With this new album, they’ve not really attempted to move away from their squeaky-clean sound, but some sort of weird post-punk One Direction album would be so wrong. Not to mention that any 1D purchase inevitably puts more cash into Simon Cowell’s grubby little hands.īut one thing is hard to ignore that, though their success may be manufactured and image-driven, they’re still making great pop music. I generally dislike manufactured pop, and it’s pretty much universally agreed that artists with proper integrity write all their own songs and play their own instruments. The question you’re probably asking at this point is “WHY?” A few months ago, I’d have asked the same thing. This whole situation culminated in an ‘ironic’ (read ‘completely serious’) viewing of their film, This Is Us, in September. After that fiasco, I found myself quite regularly using private listening mode in order to hide my secret addiction. I realised this after receiving several texts asking why my Spotify profile showed that I’d been listening to One Direction for the past hour. I’m not a 13-year-old girl, but I have to confess that at some point during the summer, I somehow became a closet ‘Directioner’. After all, most 13-year-old girls would give it a five star rating before they’d even finished listening to the first song. A review of a One Direction album needs to be accompanied by a bit of context. ![]()
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