powerless to be born at the hands of British guys who look like foals.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
the hair is nowhere near as atrocious as the tats
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
i want zayn to hurry up w/ his rumored solo release
― dyl, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
Zayn's the cutest but it's like these dudes are at a Danny Wood level of C- cuteness.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
i disagree although i think three of them have similar raw look materials
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
so like if you're not into that look you're probably not going to be into them
― maura, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i think all of them are properly attractive except niall who is kind of a goober
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
liam looks the best right now tho
isn't that what "niall" means in Gaelic
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
― dyl, Monday, November 24, 2014 3:00 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
i still can't figure out the musical talent hierarchy w/ this group ... it doesn't seem like they've reached the nsync phase where it was like justin -> jc -> who cares
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
zayn is technically the best singer i think
he is also perfectly carved
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
anyway my favorite is louis inexplicably
by songwriting credit on this album we get
louis 8liam 7harry 4niall 2zayn 2
but no one's really itching to hear a louis tomlinson album i assume (ok except brad)? is zayn just getting a solo record cuz he's the prettiest face?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
harry is a predestined solo artist but i feel like it's a toss up b/w the other 4 as to who might emerge with a viable career
well, not who "might" because niall won't. but who has the talent musically to be a decent solo artist.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
zayn's adlibs are my fav thing in the world. there's too few of them on four.
― prolego, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
If it weren't for his atrocious hair, Niall would be the cutest
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, this piece seems relevant to the "who will go solo?" discussion: http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/changing-minds-nick-jonas-one-direction-and-rare-act-pop-transference
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
zayn co-wrote a few tracks for the album but they were all shelved. probably because the music direction he wants to go in is counter to the stadium rock ting they're doing now (which has been largely shaped by louis & liam).
― prolego, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
but no one's really itching to hear a louis tomlinson album i assume (ok except brad)
his songs are great!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
his voice is kinda thin, though, not sure i could take a whole record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Which songs are Louis'?
― Tim F, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah there's a reason he gets the least solos by some margin
a lot of his credits are cowrites with liam + producers, but on the new record: "steal my girl," "ready to run," "no control," "fireproof," "clouds," "spaces"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
"no control" would be one of their best songs ever if louis wasn't leading the chorus; as important as it is for the larrybait.
harry is self-evidently the solo star.
― prolego, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Haha that list makes perfect sense.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
nah i love the way louis sings the chorus
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
is Louis the other brunette with fucked-up hair and the stupid tattoo? IIRC he's the one who super-embarrassed himself on SNL
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
with fucked-up hair and the stupid tattoo
i honestly don't know
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
"no control" is dope, in an alternate reality they go off in that direction and make the good third strokes album that never existed
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I think so but dan that arguably describes three of them.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
louis is the one that looks like someone who gets stopped on the street and told he looks like harry styles
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I looked him up and yes, he's the one I'm thinking of
His part of the SNL performance of "Story of My Life" is hilariously bad
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
J0rdan u mad.
Not as mad as Alfred saying that "no control" is like anco but pretty mad.
― Tim F, Monday, 24 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
would love this if they also kept their fake queen jams and whatever "fireproof" is (amazing)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Hah, the verses on "No Control" do kind of sound like the Strokes. I don't know if they'd write a chorus like that, though.
― timellison, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
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, 24 November 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
who sang the anthemic sounds like "Diana" -- is that Zayn?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:36 (nine years ago) link
*songs
i'm very impressed at how they've managed to avoid most of the pitfalls of boyband maturation - no attempts to go solo, no attempts to go macho, etc (and whatever your personal taste in dreaminess nobody's gone chris kirkpatrick on us). but while it's interesting they're moving towards folk balladeering rather than r&b balladeering (maybe there's more precedent for this in uk boybands), these guys just have too many ballads for my tastes.
― da croupier, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 5:34 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah "young volcanoes" could totally be on this album
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, November 24, 2014 5:40 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there's definitely something that's too mumford about them -- even down to, like, harry's hat obsession -- but there's still a certain... essential boy band-y lightness to their ballads that i really like. in that certain sense they sort of feel like an updated version of the backstreet boys to me.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 24 November 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
i mean compared to bsb by album four it's just refreshing that they aren't aggressively trying to let us know what horny players they are while one jumps forward spewing melismas at the end of every song
― da croupier, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
their peak backstreet boys moment will always be "they don't know about us"
― prolego, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE UP ALL NIGHTSTHEY DON'T KNOW I'VE WAITED ALL MY LIFEJUST TO FIND A LOVE THAT FEEL THIS RIGHTBABY THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT US
― prolego, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to think of what would've been the equivalent of a boy band's going Pyromania in 2000 -- skinny ties before the Strokes?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 November 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Hanson bringing out more Blues and Southern Rock influences on This Time Around?
― MarkoP, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Weird that we're talking about "no attempts to go solo" and that the band is in a good place when the only press I've read surrounding this album makes it sound like the band has maybe a year or two left before a split / haitus
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/15/one-direction-boy-band-exclusive-interview-http://jezebel.com/every-member-is-extremely-talented-a-somber-one-direct-1659825135
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 24 November 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
also the order is clearly zayn > harry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> louis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> niall >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> liam
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 24 November 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
even if it all ends tomorrow with one setting a hotel bed on fire and another recording an album of acoustic covers, making it THIS far without such antics would be impressive enough
― da croupier, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link