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

a/k/a innocence

it's no "What Makes You Beautiful" but i like "Best Song Ever"

I think it's their best song ever. I even like the audacity of the nod to "Baba O'Riley."

"Can you give me a rough, ballpark figure [of the number of people you've slept with]" is a question that a grown-up asks of another grown-up, then... you really need to think about your concept of adulthood.

Unable to access ILX all day because it's blocked by the library's new porn filter (!) but fair point, "grown-up" was the wrong word if you think it implied approval. I just meant that he's an adult who has sex. Enjoying your posts itt, csm.

i think zayn is probably second in the Hot One stakes and at some point was probably first - what pushes harry ahead of him is tabloid hi-jinks and celebrity friends

Do you mean officially or for you personally?

"officially" i guess

okay that makes sense - I read it the other way first and was surprised by the idea that tabloid hi-jinx would have such a big impact for you.

Zayn is like astonishingly beautiful but all the people I know who've talked about 1D seem to fancy Harry, i really dgi.

Unable to access ILX all day because it's blocked by the library's new porn filter (!)

library filter otm

I'm so all about Zayn.

Anyway, cis is killing it itt

ikr

for me liam is the Hot One but i am unashamedly into conventionally good-looking men. but zayn before harry obv

Liam would be fine were it not for his purple lipstick

Is this one Liam?

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29400000/-Liam-Payne-one-direction-29445872-1280-1024.jpg

Cause I have a co-worker who gets told he looks like him a lot. No purple lipstick, though.

Harry has a sexual aura and is also the dominant personality in 1D. Teenage girls can sense these things.

It's not about looks, it's about body language.

Harry reminds me of that guy from MGMT. The one with the hair. Anyway, he does nothing for me. I feel like you could find a couple dozen guys like that walking around Coachella.

tavi gevinson (I know, I know) tweeted something about harry styles looking like beethoven and now I can never not see it

everyone else in the room can see it http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5300000/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-portraits-classical-music-5377632-500-464.jpg

New song rules. Love when they extend the chorus and you get those sixteenth notes on the hi-hat (or some percussion instrument) - I THINK IT WENT OH-OH-OH/I THINK IT WENT YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!

why the "I know, I know" caveat w/r/t gevinson? does she not hold caché around here?

i'm not aware that ilx has any particular stance on tavi's cachet or lack thereof?

an admission: i have not heard the new 1d song yet, i think because based on gifs on tumblr it seems to just be the experience of putting your fist in your mouth so no-one can hear you hyperventilate.

I realised the other day that I hadn't knowingly heard a 1D song, then I listened and realised I'd basically heard all of them.

Regarding the debate upthread, not all threats are the same because not all groups of people feel equally threatened. Which is why Stella Creasy calls the police on hers while GQ are able to put up a blog post and laugh about it, the gulf in perception is enormous.

(does she not hold caché around here?)

I basically have no idea who does and doesn't and because of this I have to automatically use a caveat about liking anyone's work. INTERNET TASTE POLICING IN 2013 BOYS AND GIRLS

that's cool. it just sounded like she had a history of being ragged on here from the way you phrased it. of what i know of her work, she's always came across as a prodigiously talented and intelligent person to me.

Ppl love Tavi

<3 c# major. great posts!

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Is Harry considered cute because he looks like a Christmas Claymation elf come to life?

lol @ hermey styles

http://www.newnownext.com/one-direction-dolls/08/2013/

http://media.salon.com/2013/08/ku-bigpic-620x412.jpg

Oops.

did we forget the lessons of the korean air thing that fast?

Some seriously dodgy vocals on this performance at the Teen Awards the other day. Harry sounds like he's pushing out a painful shit and Nail clearly has never heard the song before. The best part is the look of panic on the face of poor Louis as he's about to do his solo. People have been commenting on the fact it looks like he says " Oh shit" as he realises it's his turn to sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2H89ulLtqk

It's pretty obvious these guys are in desperate need of a break, shame they have a new movie and album to promote in the next few months that will probably do them all in.

harry's sort of singing this song just like i sing 1d songs at karaoke

Just when I thought hardcore 1D fans couldn't get any more disturbing, there's this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/16/one-direction-fans-documentary-larry-shippers-suicide-rumours_n_3766001.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

ehh, maybe i'm jaded by actually having grown up among adolescent girls, but wild rumours are pretty par for the course?

there was a big spate of pseudicide/suicide-rumour a few months ago when either harry or louis tweeted "harry is bullshit" and people went into frantic damage mode, in fact i thought we'd talked about that on ilx before?

if you are interested in 'spaces on the internet where teenagers tell each other to kill themselves' the larry-elounour ship war is pretty rich in awfulness.

tweeted 'larry is bullshit', i mean

haha that would have been amazing

it was a whole year ago! wow, what an evergreen:

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/72016044.html

haha that would have been amazing

― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Friday, August 16, 2013 2:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

'harry is bullshit' probably would have been glossed as a lovers' tiff or something, idk, the kids will brook no contradiction of this tru love story

i love that they've internalised the "boy bands are mere puppets of dastardly record labels" narrative so deeply that they refuse to accept any sign of the boys' agency and yet in a completely opposite way to the usual one

in a way it's no different from rockists who refuse to believe that pop singers write their own songs, it's just something to bolster a certain idea of the world

assuming the suicide rumours are untrue, i feel like - as amusing as some of the more hot-headed beliebers and directioners can be - the mock bafflement/fear exhibited on the part of the adult mainstream media is getting a bit absurd. the internet allows teenage ridiculousness to be a lot more viewable than before but i'm pretty sure everyone of my generation remembers girls in school being absolutely distraught and calling the take that helpline when they split up.

i love that they've internalised the "boy bands are mere puppets of dastardly record labels" narrative so deeply that they refuse to accept any sign of the boys' agency and yet in a completely opposite way to the usual one

yes!

although the "they are being kept in the closet by THE EVIL MANAGEMENT" narrative was apparently also beloved of the much smaller group who were convinced that Elijah Wood was dating one of his Lord of the Rings costars - i guess it's the most satisfying of reasons.

a girl at my school once gave an assembly about what it was like to have epilepsy, and one of her stories was about the time she had en epileptic attack because Take That split up.

I love that sentence.

xp Well of course it's because it's more visible. Adults are only a hashtag away from the bewildering intensity of teenage fandom. There's nothing mock about my bafflement - teenagers are baffling to their own parents let alone strangers. If you click on the hashtag even some 1D fans are pissed off about this because it makes them all look bad. Whenever something (the doc, the GQ feature) presents fans as unbalanced fanatics some of them retaliate by playing to the worst stereotypes.

Moving beyond pop music and considering the recent case of the female games designer who quit because of death threats based on a six-year-old interview, or the shit that George RR Martin gets from his weirder fans, it seems absurd to deny that some strands of fandom are unhealthy.

Beatlemania was heavily documented. I just really dislike the narrative that this is 'a new phenomenon', everybody but some serious magazine seems to get it. Also, contemp for 1Ders and beliebers usually reeks of sexism the same way hatred for football fanatism usually reeked of classism.