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

I like One Direction because when I hear them, when I look at them, I realize how quickly they will be gone. How quickly I will be gone and I feel very grateful to be here. One Direction is all brevity, tender flowers, a reminder of mortality, a reminder to live with joy.

It's more that 1D reminds me I am going to die. Which of course, makes me a much better mom because, for me, at their shows, I feel certain nothing beside kindness matters when youth, life, beauty are so brief. 1D fills both my daughters and me with joy, with love. That comes back as kindness.

Samantha H., age 44 otm!

Bieber vs 1D was a question of who'd be #1 that week, not biggest sales week of the year, which Adele already has locked down off preorders alone.

that said, two of 1D's previous albums did more the first week than If You're Reading, so it's not out of the question at all.

"long way down" reminds me of "drops of jupiter"

I watched that James Corden carpool karaoke today - I've only ever listened to a few of the singles but I really do enjoy these blokes so I am diving into all of the albums. Four is my fave atm

Tim F nailed it way upthread -

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 2:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My boyfriend rankings are
1 Harry
2 Louis/Zayn
4 Liam
5 Niall...but 5 should be like 10 because Niall gives me grody 5ive/East 17 vibes.

Harry is much cuter now that he has long hair. That mid-length curl was not good

Anyway hi yes here I am, seems bananas that it took me this long to get down with these cute boyz

glad you're on board!

"What a Feeling" is so beautiful. I play it once a day.

yes! gorgeous. reminds me of Outside-era George Michael somewhat, if he bumped into Sade.

The bridge on Walking in the Wind may be the best thing Harry has ever done

This Is happening at its very good : http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/tagged/made-in-the-am

Yessssss I eagerly await the rest, thank you for this link!

bucket of tears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmp8CoZBIo

that video is so great/ridiculous/unbelievable

One of my least favorites on the album and I was kinda salty about this being chosen as a single, but wow. That video. All is forgiven.

;-[

This song is too wishy washy. Release fucking "What a Feeling" already.

"History" >>>>>>> "What A Feeling"

no

me: "release 'walking in the wind' as a single even though it's a bonus track idgaf"

i've noticed these guys, and all the boy bands, they love pointing atcha in videos.

no

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)

I'm with brad on this one, walking in the wind is the second or third best track on the whole damn thing

Yeah, 'what a feeling' is probably the best song from made in am. It is right above from 'wolves', 'temporary fix', 'walking in the wind' (why did they insist to put their best songs as bonus tracks) and 'perfect'.

What a feeling
Wolves
Temporary fix
Walking in the wind
Perfect
Olivia
Never enough
End of the day
I want to write you a song
Hey angel
Drag me down
History
AM
Love you goodbye
Long way down
If I could fly
Infinity

Why do you put Hey Angel in the middle? It's an easy #17 for me and I'm curious what it's defenders have to say that they like about it?

Also I'll be a lone defender of If I Could Fly rn i guess: I think its got a really well pieced together set of lyrics, great melody, everyone sounds super sincere on their lines, and the second to last chorus where all four of them take a line is just perfection. I can see that you guys clearly like fast 1D better than slow 1D, and If I Could Fly certainly is sappy, but I can't see why its so low in people's opinions here

Hey Angel reminds me Robbie Williams' millennium, which for me is a good sign, and it works perfectly as a first song for the album. I do prefer fast 1D, when they go slow they tend to a coldplayish vibe, but 'fireproof ' and 'night changes' are two of my favorite 1D songs and they're very slow, as you say. So... Yeah.

leaving this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3d6GntKbk

it's got more of a ryan tedder vibe than i was expecting

yeah it's kinda wack... the chorus is all wrong

i think it's aiiiight

but leaving one direction to do music like this kinda feels like extra hair splitting

hey its one of those blossoming vaginas

extreme hair splitting*

well judging on this he certainly internalized the structure of one direction's singles even if the window dressing is all different

Ever since that Fader profile Zayn did last fall (where he's spilling orange smoothie all over his chin on the magazine cover) revealed that he is an intensely uninteresting person, I knew that when he talked about the band holding him back from playing #realmusic etc I knew that his new shit was gonna be some nick jonas/chris brown/weeknd ripoff hybrid. And look at what we have here.

It's decent but

Have you guys read that interview? So much gag-inducing inflammatory bs. He calls 1D "generic as fuck" and then turns around and makes sure his first single sounds like everything on the radio. Like I said, you could tell this was gonna be the case, but hearing it now makes me taste the bile all over again

Yes but he's all grown up now. I mean, he swears and everything.

the song IS more 'adult' sounding (adult meaning moody) than the average 1D single, but its still pretty generic. which wouldnt actually be a problem if the chorus actually felt like one, and the paradise/war zone lyric didnt sound like nonsense. bit of a letdown. it sounds a bit over produced too.

What a tiresome song. It's like he wants to sing Usher's "Climax" and what emerges is a Tedder ballad.

even though i like one direction's music i thought his argument against their music was pretty cogent and understandable

yeah i mean clearly it's possible to sing on those records and want to do something different. i thought it'd be more different from One Direction than this is, though!

yeah especially cuz he reportedly isn't working with big producers i'm surprised he went so pop

Didn't work for Charlie Busted, did it?

well he's working with Malay so i guess i was expecting something slightly more Frank Ocean-ish

It's The Weeknd with less drugs and more Ryan Tedder!

well he's working with Malay so i guess i was expecting something slightly more Frank Ocean-ish

― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Friday, January 29, 2016 9:46 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

me too!

the mind reels at the idea of Zayn confessing in song dark thoughts to a cab driver.

Didn't work for Charlie Busted, did it?

ok i want this to fail spectacularly so i can have zayn's fightstar

i wasn't sure what to expect -- even from the interviews and such it wasn't clear whether zayn would actually be able to make any decent r&b like he seemed to want to. so no, this is not really a disappointment to me. it's actually pretty good. obviously it's aiming for the center of the pop audience with a chorus like that, but the production on the verses at least nudges the sonic palette outward a bit compared to what plays there. (on that note i am confused by the thought above that this sounds like everything else on the radio. like, where? obvious r&b 'influence' aside, nick jonas this is not. it's also clearly not 'trying' to be "climax" with a chorus that dramatic. nope!)

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