it took me months to realize that their name was "One Direction" as 2 words
In the UK we call them Wand Erection.
― Dermot O'Leary, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been (snoball), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
I've called them 'One Dimensional' from the off.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
clever
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
we really haven't discussed this? http://tomorrowthemag.com/articles/slash-and-burn
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ship Happens
― Dermot O'Leary, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been (snoball), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
fascinating story, seriously
― teledyldonix, Monday, 19 November 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
i first posted this in the best music writing thread but for the sake of completeness it belongs here too
http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/38958539772/one-direction-little-things-did-you-know-that
― lex pretend, Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Isabel rules
I also liked this tumblr post from Sabrina http://onedirectionstraighttohell.tumblr.com/post/21064929759/right-so-i-saw-this-message-this-morning-when-i
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
love that OWOB piece. OWOB has been really good in making me read stuff about bands/artists I couldn't care less about.
Wish I cared about One Direction tbh, but they look too young for me to ever find attractive, and their songs well... zzzzz. Can't even muster the ~outrage~ abt those supposedly misogynist songs.
― Roz, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
this new single. oh my god.
― monotony, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
this new single = i have finally cracked and installed tumblr savior. TOO MANY GIFS.
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, i'm happy for everyone, it's a good song, it's almost as good as 'hip to hip' by V, but i'm not up to all that capslock feels shit right now.
― c sharp major, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
there's something about that song I can't quite place - the way it stumbles along - that reminds me of the slight awkwardness to 'More Than Words'...? even though I suppose it's structured conventionally enough
― Chris S, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8522/8520551784_66a6bc3b97.jpg
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 2 March 2013 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
I can never remember the names of the other two (Louie and Niall). Also that picture subtly illustrates the five members' relative status in the group.
― These goons are from Galactor and who gives a s*** (snoball), Saturday, 2 March 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
The top says "ONE DIRECTION buried in the sand". It's on a lakefront mural that gets repainted every year. Last year someone painted a mermaid with what I can only imagine is a Rihanna head. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/6913235804_6418a21c3e.jpg
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 2 March 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I always knew Rihanna was a mermaid
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Sunday, 3 March 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
Louis is the only one I care about
I sat in a cafe a couple days ago watching Czech MTV and when One Direction "Kiss You" came on, in the context of Three Days Grace vids and w/e, it was like a manga come to life. Is 1D a secret K-pop band? It was very sweet.
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Which one is Louis?
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
The gay one
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 3 March 2013 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
Paul Morley prefers Harry Styles to Jake Bugg.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
I had to google all three of those names just now
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 3 March 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
mrrrr that was an annoying article tbh
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 3 March 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o63lcWu6kY
― Spectrum, Sunday, 3 March 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
Paul Morley otm
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
Paul Morley's just trolling really, but that's cool. It is kind of annoying that the people most likely to whinge about One Direction hold up the likes of Jake Bugg as somehow in opposition to them. Bugg's obviously talented - or as much as a teenager in hock to a very narrow idea of the possibilities of song can be said to be talented - and might potentially one day do something interesting, though now that the Noel Gallagher crowd has its weight behind him I doubt it.
One Direction obviously have nothing to do with music as we know it, but in these times when charts don't matter and TV doesn't matter and everyone is basically following their own noses in terms of listening, who gives a shit? The only times I even notice One Direction is in Morley-style pieces and when I see their posters and calendars all over the place in high-street headphone shops that will soon be closed for good.
If I were Harry Styles - who I guess isn't seriously into any kind of music at all and doesn't dream of making the perfect 45 or anything - I'm sure any criticism that I was fake and manufactured would be easily brushed off in the context of my (presumably) making loads and loads of non-fake money and shagging loads and loads of very real lassies. (No doubt Jake Bugg is enjoying these things too, though more solemnly.)
― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Styles' X Factor audition, as a solo artists (the whole band auditioned as solo artists and Cowell had the masterful sense to put them together) it was as an 'authentic' 'alternative' 'rock' singer, actually.
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
He auditioned with Stevie Wonder's Isn't She Lovely, which is kinda cool but hardly signifies 'authentic', 'alternative' or 'rock'.
― Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
(No doubt Jake Bugg is enjoying these things too, though more solemnly.)
Amazing
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 3 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
<i>If I were Harry Styles - who I guess isn't seriously into any kind of music at all...</i>
that is kind of a wildly presumptuous statement to make about almost anyone, much less someone who is actually in the music industry
― katherine, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
He was in a band called White Eskimo before auditioning for X-Factor, IIRC. Still, I think Niall may have been the most *musically* driven before joining the band.
― jaymc, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
Cowell had the masterful sense to put them together
Or Nicole Scherzinger did, if you ask her.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― approx. david bowie (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lotta rumors (and, as a consequence, slash-fic) about Louis & Harry, tbh.
― jaymc, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's an unfair assumption based on judgments about the type of music they make and where that music finds an audience to presume they themselves don't care about any kind of music at all. Also, in what way *should* they care and why? As a group whose average age is probably not even 20, I'm not sure what kinds of concerns or opinions about music any of them are supposed to have that would satisfy a guy like Morley or why they should be concerned with doing that in the first place.
― Greer, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
Louis is easily my favourite member. Anyone who can go through the live shows on X Factor without singing a single note on stage deserves some kind of credit. His audition was the only time I actually heard him sing, his vocal was quite something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAs5Ei6Bfms
Also his grinning face when he mimes along with Harry at the judges houses is classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5UQD61Tg3E
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 4 March 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
Harry strikes me as one of those guys who *would* care about whether other people think he is authentic or not.
The group has a "egomaniac annexes four nice guys who have yet to realize what has happened" vibe to me.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 4 March 2013 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
If I were Harry Styles - who I guess isn't seriously into any kind of music at all...that is kind of a wildly presumptuous statement to make about almost anyone, much less someone who is actually in the music industry
The "Harry's House" playlist on Spotify:
Jay-Z - 99 ProblemsJustin Timberlake - Cry Me A RiverRolling Stones - SatisfactionQueen - Don't Stop Me NowDaniel Powter - Bad DayBlack Eyed Peas - I Gotta FeelingJustin Timberlake - SexyBackMichael Jackson - ThrillerToploader - Dancing In The Moonlight
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
yes, you're right, people who like songs that are popular are not as seriously into music as you.
― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:39 (eleven years ago) link
One Direction obviously have nothing to do with music as we know it
raised an eyebrow, thought "ooh here we go"
If I were Harry Styles - who I guess isn't seriously into any kind of music at all and doesn't dream of making the perfect 45 or anything -
BOOM - lolled a little, not as great as it could've been, entry level trollery imo
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I don't care whether Harry is "seriously into" music or not and it would actually be weird if he was. Most people who get seriously into music do so around university age and he hasn't had much free time since he was 16.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
my eleven year-old daughter is seriously into music, as i remember being at her age.
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
boy bands really make a lot of people behave like complete morons huh
eyeball kicks most of all
― lex pretend, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
altho tbf neither of his knew who Xenakis was at this age so credibility called into doubt i guess
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
like seriously read what you're saying it's just embarrassing
― lex pretend, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
If I were Harry Styles - who I guess isn't seriously into any kind of music at all and doesn't dream of making the perfect 45 or anything -BOOM - lolled a little, not as great as it could've been, entry level trollery imo
I guess. I'm not actually that bothered by people dreaming of making "the perfect 45", if they even still exist. We're all ridiculous in our own ways.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
Christ, here comes the nitwit brigade.
Pretty sure I'm saying the opposite of what you think I'm saying, but I'll read it again just to be sure.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
you were just making assumptions about a correct way of engaging with music that doesn't stand up, i guess. hence the raillery. but, y'know, One Direction make music and some people really like it and some people don't care and they are all valid expressions of people's engagement with music.
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
the underlying talk of "seriously" liking music is misguided cos it implies that only "serious" music can be liked "seriously"
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 March 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
I used "seriously" as an intensifying adverb in a clause as carefully composed as to begin with "I guess". I understand there is always a kind of squeamishness on these threads, but the idea that I said anything about "a correct way of engaging with music" is daft and completely in your own head.
Being "seriously into" something (a colloquial phrase that itself suggests a lusty disregard of received notions of quality) doesn't at all imply that the object of interest is serious. I am seriously into muscle cars. I am seriously into my summer rhythm. I am seriously into him. Again, though, I acknowledge your right to be squeamish and I ought to have done more to anticipate it.
Whether Harry Styles is "seriously into" music or anything else at all is of no concern to me and does not affect how much I value his existence - or even his music! I idly speculated that music outwith his own career might not be a great passion of his - and his playlisting Toploader does seem to bear this out - but who knows?
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 4 March 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
w/e, mr defensive
― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Monday, 4 March 2013 12:27 (eleven years ago) link