One Direction - is this a legit new threat wrt to a new boy band invasion? y/n

please point out the part in that where I ever suggested it was real, as opposed to "plausible to a 13-year-old with a basic understanding of what is generally heard of and not"

i'm not saying you suggested it was real! rather, that it is of an order of magnitude that is actually pretty similar to illuminati conspiracy theories.

do you even understand what orders of magnitude are?

"these two people might actually be dating rather than these two people" = "the U.S. government, for decades, has been kidnapping babies and brainwashing teenage girls using magical technology that works by conspiracy theory logic, for reasons nobody really gives a shit about explaining, in a manner that is suspiciously similar to anti-semitic tracts or bad porn"

sorry, let me rephrase:

the extent to which "lance bass stayed in the closet while in nsync" is like "larry stylinson is real, louis' girlfriend is a beard, anyone who expresses the idea that this is not true is being paid off by management to hush up their true love (but they nevertheless keep showing it in their body language so that we True Believers can recognise)"
is of a comparable order to the extent to which "jay-z has made a lot of canny business deals in order to have success" is like "jay-z has taken a blood oath and joined the devil-worshipping illuminati in order to have success (but he nevertheless keeps showing it in his accessories and aesthetic choices so that we True Believers can recognise)".

i.e. the order or magnitude i'm talking about is how much the conspiracy theory has exploded beyond the part that relates to known fact. i don't feel like i'm saying something very controversial?

lol

in that case then yeah

The thing about all the Larry stuff is that yes, at worst it's a weird form of fetishizing homosexuality that mostly straight people do, and at best it's based on very spurious to the point of being nonexistence evidence.

Spurious?

http://static.tumblr.com/68031e1cdf744a70cb3b828689b6f7ae/1vge2nl/XGmmmxs43/tumblr_static_a99cj4lccaeqbd_.jpeg

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30900000/Larry-larry-stylinson-30903893-470-345.jpg

etc.

Those aren't even the steamy ones

Like, I'm pretty sure Larryshippers, mostly have a reasonable level of belief that This Relationship Exists. "Spurious evidence" is kind of beside the point. Like I said upthread, these guys are deliberately allowing fans to cultivate their shipping fantasies. Evidence isn't an issue.

(apologies for shitty punc)

hazel robinson:

http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58456757322/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-fan-documentary

also http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58443637677/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-documentary-part and http://piratemoggy.tumblr.com/post/58451917375/five-posts-about-that-one-direction-fan-documentary and the next two whenever she posts them

basically just read everything hazel ever says

also Amanda Hess who wrote about Larry shipping months ago: http://tomorrowthemag.com/articles/slash-and-burn

So what song are they talking about? You know, "the best song ever"? They dance to it ALL NIGHT. What song could possibly be good enough to play again and again and again AND AGAIN AND AGAIN? AND DANCE TO? ALL NIGHT?

That one about Lucky.

we're up all night to dance to get lucky, all night

"Like, I'm pretty sure Larryshippers, mostly have a reasonable level of belief that This Relationship Exists. "Spurious evidence" is kind of beside the point. Like I said upthread, these guys are deliberately allowing fans to cultivate their shipping fantasies. Evidence isn't an issue.

yeah, an interesting thing about one direction is how shipping-aware they seem to be. not sure whether this is a new thing -- shipping was around (HOLY SHIT WAS IT AROUND) for bsb/nsync but I'm not sure how much they played to it. for all I know they totally did and I just didn't notice it.

It's like these 1D fans have never heard of fanservice or something

"Best Song Ever" debuted in Billboard at number two, but then sunk into the bottom part of the top twenty in week number two and is now out of the top twenty in week number four. Haven't heard it on the radio.

It hasn't left the top 20 on iTunes since release, so at the very least, it's weekly sales have been relatively strong and consistent. But yeah radio seems hesitant to fully jump on board.

Came expecting to see a picture of a Joy Division t-shirt. Leaving disappointed.

idg why VMA audience would boo them

Disgruntled Joy Division fans.

"best song ever" is surely their best song since "what makes you beautiful"

nah, "kiss you" is their best work

oh yeah, i do like that one too

We have a "Hit Music" station and a "Star" station in the city where I live. Looks like it's #43 on the former and not in the top 100 on the latter.

so what's this movie like, is anyone going to go see it

i didn't go see the justin bieber movie or the katy perry one either

these movies are all 'recent concert footage interspersed with adorable home movies of the performers singing as little kids' right?

Why can't we have another spiceworld is what I'd like to know

you want Elvis Costello in a One Direction movie?

Idk itvwas a pretty fun movie! As brit films of the nulab era go I like it more than oh trainspotting

YES spiceworld is kind of wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHWvu9rlG8

Gabriel Agbonlahor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taking Out Twats is What This LAD does.

Gabriel Imuetinyan "Gabby" Agbonlahor (born 13 October 1986) is an English footballer of Nigerian-Scottish heritage who plays for Aston Villa and also an arsehole for hurting our louis

A spew-inducing reducer. Beautiful.

Shame that guy's knee joint only works in one direction.

:D

I am privileged to have witnessed this first hand. Also, he runs like a girl.

he must be in the bottom 5 players to have donned the hoops in your time, surely

idk there ought to be some unwritten rule that random slebs in a charity football game are not to be treated the same as (ex)professionals or targeted for bantz inducing comedy violence

although im sure having spent a year in chemotherapy stiliyan petrov appreciated watching an emaciated dude being sick in front of him

the camera angle just doesn't seem to show the impact.

agbonlahor had 3 different women pregnant at the same time when aged 20 or something iirc, he's not known for reserve

he must be in the bottom 5 players to have donned the hoops in your time, surely

Right down there with Gerard Butler, aye.

I can't find a good YouTube version to embed or anything but "Diana" off their new album is a jam.

It is! A couple of the "rock" numbers are astonishingly confident; somebody's been listening to Def Leppard.

Yeah, some of them are a bit too reverent of the source material they're pulling from, but it's an interesting new approach from a band known for uptempo glossy power-pop and they mostly pull it off. Seems a few of current young popstars have one eye keenly on the rock acts of yesteryear between this album, Ke$ha's LP last year, and most of Demi Lovato's first two albums.

one track -- I forget which -- is the male version of Ke$ha's "Gold Trans Am," not like the world needed it.

Though "Diana" is still the "uptempo glossy power-pop" that Greer speaks of but it's pretty much the second best thing they've done in this vein (behind "Kiss You", of course).

http://i.imgur.com/aJbZF7I.png