it seemed to me, you lived your life, like chin stubble in the wind
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/25/one-direction-confirm-zayn-malik-has-left-the-group
First Jeremy Clarkson gets fired and now this! #bestdayever
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
it's always a good idea to italicise useless Guardian comment box posts otherwise people might think it was you that wrote that
― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
zayyyyn
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm loving Twitter today
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― prolego, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
The comments section is pure gold
someone set up a tumblr with those quotes
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
good luck being a "normal 22 year old", super-famous guy
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
he left the group to marry me
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
given the pace of constant tours and albums that they've kept up the last 4 years, i can imagine being an unemployed rich guy who merely gets recognized/photographed as he goes about his business would seem pretty appealing
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
it hasn't hurt Jon Knight anyway, not when Zayn can join the reunion tour in 2031.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
this is the saddest day of my life.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
farewell, Directioneer with the best hair miss you boo
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
http://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp/docs/2014/01/One-Direction-Fragrance-1954241.jpg
― Nourry, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
RIP
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
listening to "spaces" on repeat and crying :'(
― prolego, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/25/zayn-malik-quits-one-direction-social-media-fans
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
man these articles are written to bring the crank hits.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
and it's working! (fwiw i am not against or for this band/group/assemblage of young britishers/whatever the proper term is)
A search for the phrase “IM CRYING” yielded the most pathos-drenched view of the despair, with between four and six tweets per second, most in capital letters. Some users claimed to be crying at school, others spoke movingly of crying in cars, crying in public or crying in the bathroom.
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
would've sworn the first to leave would be harry!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
still more dignified than the anguished hysteria of middle-aged men over the jeremy clarkson sacking
― prolego, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9p2cTXo.png
I'm in favor of a little Soviet style touching up of their past tbh
― 龜, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Did you shop horns onto second-from-the-left too
He's got horns
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
:'( bye favorite
but i am glad he is doing what he wants, i'm sure wriggling his way out of the group and their contractual obligations must have been extremely tough
― dyl, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
isn't it not-so-subtly implied in the PR that he got kicked out, not left on his own
― katherine, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
more like dumb direction
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
like, this came two days after a cheating scandal, plus the cited reason is "stress" which is celebrity pr-speak for drugs, booze, etc. I'm all for taking fans seriously but at some point feet have to hit earth again
― katherine, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
i dunno considering what their recording and touring schedule has been like it seems pretty plausible that he just got tired of the lifestyle and wanted out
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
good luck being a "normal 22 year old", super-famous guy― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
CJ Fam knows his pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ToBXzgNjZE
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
was the 'cheating scandal' serious? i didn't pay much attention to it
― dyl, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
obviously we don't know for sure but j0rdan otm i think, their management has run them into the ground (they're literally never not on tour or recording) and to be honest i'm surprised something like this hasn't happened sooner what with the intense nature of their fanbase and the scrutiny that comes with that.
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 26 March 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
the band can not go on without his adlibs, i'm devastated
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 March 2015 06:47 (nine years ago) link
is Lance Bass still in orbit?
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 26 March 2015 06:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/26/without-zayn-malik-one-direction-four-goofy-white-guys-shouting
"Malik’s function in the band was in some ways obscure or invisible. He didn’t write for the band often, and when he did he usually appeared among a galaxy of co-writers on the group’s most gelatinous ballads (Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne are responsible for the majority of the group’s internal songwriting). His modesty and the economy of his expression gave him the reputation of the “quiet one” and the “mysterious one” among the boy band taxonomies. In the One Direction documentary, This Is Us, he features minimally compared to the rest of the group; when the band takes a break from their aggressive and interminable touring schedule, Malik is depicted in isolation, in a room he’s decorated entirely with graffiti. In another scene, he streams by the camera on a Segway. His smile seems to materialise slowly and almost imperceptibly across his face, composing itself atom by atom."
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
no control!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
seriously Brad this is awesome
when the band takes a break from their aggressive and interminable touring schedule, Malik is depicted in isolation, in a room he’s decorated entirely with graffiti
zayn malik, the rust cohle of one direction
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
*scrolls down* why does the guardian still have one of the worst comment sections on the internet idgi
― dyl, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
like, this came two days after a cheating scandal, plus the cited reason is "stress" which is celebrity pr-speak for drugs, booze, etc. I'm all for taking fans seriously but at some point feet have to hit earth again― katherine, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki dunno considering what their recording and touring schedule has been like it seems pretty plausible that he just got tired of the lifestyle and wanted out― J0rdan S., Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― katherine, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, March 25, 2015 5:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my (baseless) theory is that he's been trying to get out since shortly after the beginning but wasn't able to until he breached a morality clause in his contract w/the cheating scandal
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
or he just got tired of terrorist 'gags' or stupid people like those in the guardian comments boxes
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Thursday, March 26, 2015 12:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
i like this theory
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
"an enduring image of One Direction is of Malik in the Night Changes video, the soft and intricate cascade of his hair merging with a dense knot of spaghetti"
this is so beautiful <3
― prolego, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i don't think there was any morality clause lol - he's already cheated on perrie publicly before so this is nothing out of the ordinary - but he's clearly hated the whole experience for sometime and was recording with naughty boy solo a few months back, so he probably just used the uproar to cite stress and get out now.
― prolego, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
although there's already a broad consensus within the directioner stanbase that their management keeps them in loveless closeted relationships so this could feed into those theories.
― prolego, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
which of the Directioners would Zayn have been boinking on the sly?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
[insert slash fic]
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/InzwfFm.gif
― prolego, Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
A: Harry Slyles
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Thursday, 26 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/zayn-malik-quits-one-direction-hundreds-of-workers-demand-compassionate-leave-following-band-members-exit-10136603.html
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 26 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link