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

Haha that list makes perfect sense.

nah i love the way louis sings the chorus

is Louis the other brunette with fucked-up hair and the stupid tattoo? IIRC he's the one who super-embarrassed himself on SNL

with fucked-up hair and the stupid tattoo

i honestly don't know

"no control" is dope, in an alternate reality they go off in that direction and make the good third strokes album that never existed

I think so but dan that arguably describes three of them.

louis is the one that looks like someone who gets stopped on the street and told he looks like harry styles

I looked him up and yes, he's the one I'm thinking of

His part of the SNL performance of "Story of My Life" is hilariously bad

J0rdan u mad.

Not as mad as Alfred saying that "no control" is like anco but pretty mad.

"no control" is dope, in an alternate reality they go off in that direction and make the good third strokes album that never existed

would love this if they also kept their fake queen jams and whatever "fireproof" is (amazing)

Hah, the verses on "No Control" do kind of sound like the Strokes. I don't know if they'd write a chorus like that, though.

Actually I feel like One Direction at their most rock are approaching Fall Out Boy at their most pop - the distance between "No Control" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "Miss Missing You" or "Where Did The Party Go?" seems pretty small to me.

who sang the anthemic sounds like "Diana" -- is that Zayn?

*songs

i'm very impressed at how they've managed to avoid most of the pitfalls of boyband maturation - no attempts to go solo, no attempts to go macho, etc (and whatever your personal taste in dreaminess nobody's gone chris kirkpatrick on us). but while it's interesting they're moving towards folk balladeering rather than r&b balladeering (maybe there's more precedent for this in uk boybands), these guys just have too many ballads for my tastes.

Actually I feel like One Direction at their most rock are approaching Fall Out Boy at their most pop - the distance between "No Control" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" and "Miss Missing You" or "Where Did The Party Go?" seems pretty small to me.

― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 5:34 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah "young volcanoes" could totally be on this album

i'm very impressed at how they've managed to avoid most of the pitfalls of boyband maturation - no attempts to go solo, no attempts to go macho, etc (and whatever your personal taste in dreaminess nobody's gone chris kirkpatrick on us). but while it's interesting they're moving towards folk balladeering rather than r&b balladeering (maybe there's more precedent for this in uk boybands), these guys just have too many ballads for my tastes.

― da croupier, Monday, November 24, 2014 5:40 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's definitely something that's too mumford about them -- even down to, like, harry's hat obsession -- but there's still a certain... essential boy band-y lightness to their ballads that i really like. in that certain sense they sort of feel like an updated version of the backstreet boys to me.

i mean compared to bsb by album four it's just refreshing that they aren't aggressively trying to let us know what horny players they are while one jumps forward spewing melismas at the end of every song

their peak backstreet boys moment will always be "they don't know about us"

THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE UP ALL NIGHTS
THEY DON'T KNOW I'VE WAITED ALL MY LIFE
JUST TO FIND A LOVE THAT FEEL THIS RIGHT
BABY THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT US

I'm trying to think of what would've been the equivalent of a boy band's going Pyromania in 2000 -- skinny ties before the Strokes?

Hanson bringing out more Blues and Southern Rock influences on This Time Around?

Weird that we're talking about "no attempts to go solo" and that the band is in a good place when the only press I've read surrounding this album makes it sound like the band has maybe a year or two left before a split / haitus

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/15/one-direction-boy-band-exclusive-interview-
http://jezebel.com/every-member-is-extremely-talented-a-somber-one-direct-1659825135

also the order is clearly zayn > harry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> louis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> niall >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> liam

even if it all ends tomorrow with one setting a hotel bed on fire and another recording an album of acoustic covers, making it THIS far without such antics would be impressive enough

THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE UP ALL NIGHTS
THEY DON'T KNOW I'VE WAITED ALL MY LIFE
JUST TO FIND A LOVE THAT FEEL THIS RIGHT
BABY THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT US

― prolego, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:23

peak larry anthem <3

Isabel cole should be here to defend properly the beauty of all the boys.

I mean...this Is the most beautiful face i've seen on earth: http://38.media.tumblr.com/c1d50f5d39fdf882c708cd458d6751f6/tumblr_nc1xlzCWjm1tv7sj3o3_500.gif

And it's impossible to be more cute than this: http://38.media.tumblr.com/e57e609479ec4aece83d2064f361e563/tumblr_nfed07t09E1rxkzk5o1_500.gif

Really, don't make me start : http://40.media.tumblr.com/e3231abed4776d1cc60deebd9bea5c9a/tumblr_neae8x6Wwk1qzf95yo1_1280.png

This Is basically porn http://38.media.tumblr.com/bf6a34e9c35333c0da001067665c6f39/tumblr_ne4dgxf5Ho1ripc0no7_r1_250.gif
Or this http://41.media.tumblr.com/4a0f08f6a7a0b7a955c43e9d46f3fe5a/tumblr_na200aSPXd1qedz19o1_500.png

Sorry.

niall's hair is the worst

Weird that we're talking about "no attempts to go solo" and that the band is in a good place when the only press I've read surrounding this album makes it sound like the band has maybe a year or two left before a split / haitus

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/15/one-direction-boy-band-exclusive-interview-
http://jezebel.com/every-member-is-extremely-talented-a-somber-one-direct-1659825135

― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, November 24, 2014 6:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The media has been predicting their split since their debut. Everyone expects it because it's so built into the conventional boyband arc. So they treat every moment of conflict as a potential breaking point. It's weird actually how hotly the media at large seems to be almost restless with anticipation for it.

I suppose One Direction's different enough from previous boy bands to consider their trajectory might differ from their predecessors. They are less single-oriented, more album oriented (that's probably the reason why Midnight Memories sounds less uneven than Millennium, the downside to this being nothing in their catalog is as explosive as Everybody, Larger than Life, The Call or Bye Bye Bye). They're less about the dancing and more about the songs and singing; one could assume that may help in a future transition into maturity. I can hear some Coldplay, some U2 in them, which makes me think they are to those bands what the Cheiron generation was to Bon Jovi, in the sense they captured the arena rock from the previous generation and distilled it into pop singles. The possible advantage to One Direction being that their particular type of arena rock influences may be more suited for displaying adulthood.

i'd argue bon jovi did a pretty fine job distilling arena rock into pop singles as it was - part of my problem with one-d's floor stompers is their relative smoothing out of what was already pretty damn smooth.

oddly enough, their inability to dance was actually one of the reasons i couldn't take them seriously initially. just five reality contestants hopping around awkwardly next to each other, reading the Non-Threatening Boys language given to them. That it's gelled to the the degree it has makes me wanna tip my hat for cowell for finding some collective chemistry that wasn't particularly obvious to me.

are there any album cuts one should check out if i love "kiss you" and "best song ever," i'm not fully on board with "midnight memories" and "steal my girl," and couldn't care less about the dorm-serenade ballads beyond noting some Sensitive Lad lyrical touches?

Check out "Diana" and "Little Black Dress".

pox 1d deep cuts in that vein:

stole my heart
tell me a lie
they don't know about us
i would
heart attack
c'mon c'mon
strong
diana
stockholm syndrome
no control

+ bonus bonus tracks: stand up, nobody compares, change your ticket

thanks!

Adding to that list, Loved You First and Nobody Compares are also up there. Little White Lies is also a potentially great song ruined by "Blurred Lines"-level lyrics.

"Diana" and "Midnight Memories" are awesome; the latter is Fisher Price "Pour Some Sugar on Me."

yeah i thought "sugar" was kiddie-friendly enough

i'd argue bon jovi did a pretty fine job distilling arena rock into pop singles as it was - part of my problem with one-d's floor stompers is their relative smoothing out of what was already pretty damn smooth.

Yeah, I'd agree in that Bon Jovi did a fine job themselves. "Larger than life" is more of a sibling to "Livin on a prayer", rather than a descendant/evolution.

oddly enough, their inability to dance was actually one of the reasons i couldn't take them seriously initially. just five reality contestants hopping around awkwardly next to each other, reading the Non-Threatening Boys language given to them. That it's gelled to the the degree it has makes me wanna tip my hat for cowell for finding some collective chemistry that wasn't particularly obvious to me.

The first time I saw/heard One Direction I was sort of impressed, I suppose, it was in the Olympics closing ceremony and they were the best thing there by far. They sang What Makes You Beautiful, which is still my favorite and the one thing in their catalog that sounds as explosive as anything from the Cheiron/Maratone era, probably due to the Rami involvement.

However, after that I got more or less the same impression. They definitely didn't have that imposing, monolithic thing the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC or Britney had, which was I was looking for in a boy band. The lack of dance routines made them look weaker in stage. In hindsight, they were evolving into a different thing.

are there any album cuts one should check out if i love "kiss you" and "best song ever," i'm not fully on board with "midnight memories" and "steal my girl," and couldn't care less about the dorm-serenade ballads beyond noting some Sensitive Lad lyrical touches?

I'm only familiarizing with Midnight Memories and Take Me home, but C'mon C'mon sounds amazing. In their latest, I'm enjoying most tracks except for 18, though I suppose my favorites are Ready to run, Where do broken hearts go, Night Changes, No Control, Fireproof and Clouds. Change your ticket is my favorite of the the bonus tracks.

that one direction can't dance never really stood out to me, since they're part of a wider pop landscape where dancing well (if at all) is less valued than it's been in a couple of decades. i'm not sure whether that's due to sheer laziness from labels and artists, a pushback against the image of rigorously hyper controlled pop that bsb & britney embodied or a result of r&b's fading dominance over pop music where the mj/janet dancing template was the standard, or something else? it's an interesting discussion i think.

Credit to whoever decided to make a cute joke out of their bad dancing in almost all their early video clips.

made a playlist of my forever 1d jams and i haven't really listened to any other music since

guess this is the end

petition for new board I Love One Direction

tracklist or stfu

feel like it's not done yet i'll get back to you

http://i.imgur.com/XzF0WR0.png

imo "still the one" is the best fucking song in the world

add "what makes you beautiful" as a bonus track

i just bought the movie

I endorse this tracklist.

feel like i can't accept a playlist that doesn't include "through the dark"
when the night is coming down on you
we will find a way through the dark

really, every album after their first one has been incredible and each has like eleven 10/10 songs on them so not sure i could make a playlist. like, midnight memories is unfuckwithable from beginning to end. take me home is ridiculous if you switch the amazing bonus tracks ("still the one", "nobody compares", "magic") with "summer love" and maybe "over again" and "last first kiss"

my POX would maybe be:
kiss you
rock me
they don't know about us
you & i
don't forget where you belong
through the dark
something great
fireproof
clouds
change your ticket

also "little things" actively KILLS me