![]() ![]() There's a lot of stuff where, in terms of people we work with like the record label who are always doing different jobs - it's now like we've all worked towards this.It's about to come out so everyone's a bit nervous,” Harry told Australian radio hosts Fifi and Jules. “This is the bit where everyone kind of experiences the same feeling. ![]() Speaking about Midnight Memories recently, Harry admitted that the group were nervous about releasing the new record, despite it being their third. The first single off their upcoming album Best Song Ever shot straight to number one over the summer, so there’s high expectations for the band’s follow up. However, each perfectly formed little nugget of pop makes its way into your head just in the way you’d expect from a 1D album, and I hope they keep making them like this.Įven if I will still be listening in secret.Following the announcement of the single, the lads shared the story of their lives by treating their fans on Twitter to a few embarrassing – but incredibly cute – childhood pics. Some tentative rock influences do dart in now and then, notably in ‘Little Black Dress’, but you can’t listen to the album the whole way through without getting bored of the sound. It’s to their credit that the boys have had more creative input into this particular album, with Louis and Liam apparently writing most of the tracks themselves.I think their main issue is simply repetitiveness – they’ve cracked their sound and they’re keeping it, but perhaps keeping it too consistently. Some of the tracks even have an (almost)meaningful feel, such as ‘Half A Heart’. Stream songs including 'Midnight Memories', 'Story of My Life (Live X Factor Performance)' and more. 85 Midnight Memories, the third full-length from the 'X Factor'-formed quintet, follows up on what worked best on last years 'Take Me Home,' and tosses in some proficient new ideas to keep listeners eager for the bands continued evolution. ![]() I challenge you to find a more uplifting getting-ready-to-go-out song than ‘Best Song Ever’ after a dull day of essay-writing. Listen to Midnight Memories - EP by One Direction on Apple Music. The first two tracks, their latest singles ‘Best Song Ever’ and ‘Story Of My Life’, really show off their feel-good pop vibe. With this new album, they’ve not really attempted to move away from their squeaky-clean sound, but some sort of weird post-punk One Direction album would be so wrong. Not to mention that any 1D purchase inevitably puts more cash into Simon Cowell’s grubby little hands.īut one thing is hard to ignore that, though their success may be manufactured and image-driven, they’re still making great pop music. I generally dislike manufactured pop, and it’s pretty much universally agreed that artists with proper integrity write all their own songs and play their own instruments. The question you’re probably asking at this point is “WHY?” A few months ago, I’d have asked the same thing. This whole situation culminated in an ‘ironic’ (read ‘completely serious’) viewing of their film, This Is Us, in September. After that fiasco, I found myself quite regularly using private listening mode in order to hide my secret addiction. I realised this after receiving several texts asking why my Spotify profile showed that I’d been listening to One Direction for the past hour. I’m not a 13-year-old girl, but I have to confess that at some point during the summer, I somehow became a closet ‘Directioner’. After all, most 13-year-old girls would give it a five star rating before they’d even finished listening to the first song. A review of a One Direction album needs to be accompanied by a bit of context.
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