I'm also confused as to why Zayn is not universally agreed to be the obligatory "Hot One"
I'm saying.
Though the second part of your sentence is probably correct too.
I think a lot of fans maybe also equate big fluffy hair with innocence?
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I equate big fluffy hair with 1981.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
a/k/a innocence
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
it's no "What Makes You Beautiful" but i like "Best Song Ever"
― some dude, Thursday, 1 August 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's their best song ever. I even like the audacity of the nod to "Baba O'Riley."
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 1 August 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 1 August 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Do you mean officially or for you personally?
― Tim F, Thursday, 1 August 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
"officially" i guess
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 August 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Friday, 2 August 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Zayn is like astonishingly beautiful but all the people I know who've talked about 1D seem to fancy Harry, i really dgi.
― whateverface (c sharp major), Friday, 2 August 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Unable to access ILX all day because it's blocked by the library's new porn filter (!)
library filter otm
― whateverface (c sharp major), Friday, 2 August 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so all about Zayn.
Anyway, cis is killing it itt
― suggest bando (The Reverend), Friday, 2 August 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
ikr
for me liam is the Hot One but i am unashamedly into conventionally good-looking men. but zayn before harry obv
― lex pretend, Friday, 2 August 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Liam would be fine were it not for his purple lipstick
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 August 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Friday, 2 August 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
Harry has a sexual aura and is also the dominant personality in 1D. Teenage girls can sense these things.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 4 August 2013 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Greer, Sunday, 4 August 2013 10:07 (eleven years ago) link
tavi gevinson (I know, I know) tweeted something about harry styles looking like beethoven and now I can never not see it
― katherine, Monday, 5 August 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
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
― katherine, Monday, 5 August 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― timellison, Monday, 5 August 2013 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
why the "I know, I know" caveat w/r/t gevinson? does she not hold caché around here?
― monotony, Monday, 5 August 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Monday, 5 August 2013 08:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 5 August 2013 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
(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
― katherine, Monday, 5 August 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― monotony, Monday, 5 August 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
Ppl love Tavi
― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
<3 c# major. great posts!
― horseshoe, Monday, 5 August 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
^
― staind in the place where you live (crüt), Monday, 5 August 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
Is Harry considered cute because he looks like a Christmas Claymation elf come to life?
― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, 5 August 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ hermey styles
― staind in the place where you live (crüt), Monday, 5 August 2013 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newnownext.com/one-direction-dolls/08/2013/
― boxedjoy, Friday, 9 August 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.salon.com/2013/08/ku-bigpic-620x412.jpg
Oops.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 9 August 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
did we forget the lessons of the korean air thing that fast?
― we run zings, zings don't run we (The Reverend), Friday, 9 August 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
harry's sort of singing this song just like i sing 1d songs at karaoke
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 16 August 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
ehh, maybe i'm jaded by actually having grown up among adolescent girls, but wild rumours are pretty par for the course?
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
tweeted 'larry is bullshit', i mean
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
haha that would have been amazing
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
it was a whole year ago! wow, what an evergreen:
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/72016044.html
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
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'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
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Friday, 16 August 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Friday, 16 August 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Friday, 16 August 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― confusion is sexts (c sharp major), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
I love that sentence.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 August 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link