Sooooo I'm all-in on One Direction fandom now. All three of my computer desktops are now Nick and Harry. I have a YouTube playlist of my favorite One Direction songs. If the last week is any indication, I'm going to spend my summer chinhandsing at interviews and live performances. Anyway, no one else is super excited about it with me, so here's a post of things:
- This is a video of an interview with Niall Horan and Shawn Mendes that could double as the beginning of a Sean Cody video. They talk about how they became friends, which started with "DMing all flirtsy" according to Shawn, and Niall says, "I love you, Shawn." Approximately fifty percent of my Tumblr dash was comprised of this video for a full twenty-four hours.
- When I was first reading some fic, I asked on Twitter if Louis is actually jerk because he kind of seems like one in fic, and the two people who answered said yes. But then I read a bunch of Nick/Louis fic. And then I watched a bunch of music video behind the scenes things and discovered that baby, clean-shaven Louis was THE PRETTIEST THING EVER, which (a) is appealing and (b) explains a lot about this fandom.
- I read this interview with Louis this week, and then watched a bunch of live performances. One of the points of the article is teasing out the reasons Louis is pursuing a solo career instead of sticking to the management side of things. It's so clear from watching live performances that he loves it, and I'm fascinated that that isn't one of the reasons in the article. Does it seem to obvious? Does he not quite realize it? Is it the tender part that feels too vulnerable to expose?
- Speaking of live performances, the directions frequently have color-coded bands on their mics. Harry is solid green, Liam is solid red, Louis is solid blue, Zayn is solid yellow, and Niall is the Irish flag stripes. I don't know what to do with this information.
- I'm fascinated by the live performances of Louis and Bebe's "Back to You." He's clearly slightly baffled by what he's supposed to do when she goes in for a hug at the end of the song. I also watched one where the camera was on Bebe pretty much the whole time, even when he was the one singing. I mean, part of it is that she moves around and he doesn't, but I'm highly amused by the idea that Bebe is a bigger star than a member of One Direction.
- Miss You is my favorite Louis song. I love the part where everything drops out and he says, "Shit," and then the music starts up again for "Maybe I miss you." I'm also obsessed with the way he says the word "love." I don't have the musical or linguistic vocabulary to talk about how interesting I find the mix of his accents - his singing voice, the way he half says, half sings that "we were in love / now we're strangers" verse, and the way he talks in interviews are all different.
- Speaking of interviews, there are a few interviews where the directions manage to be smooth, but I'm really surprised by how many of them are kind of a mess. If nothing else, anyone who ever interviews them absolutely needs to give them each their own mic.
- Don't give Harry things in interviews. He has a tendency to throw them over his shoulder and off into the set. (I've seen him do it in two different interviews.)
- Are there rec lists made by adults? Because somehow a lot of the fic is just not what I'm looking for, and I think part of it is that the highly-kudosed things all appeal to a much younger group. I've definitely read a couple of things that I would have loved when I was twenty, but are just not quite what I want at thirty-eight.
- Possibly the worst thing about the fic is that this fandom doesn't use canonical AU tags, which makes it really hard to filter out AUs. I want to read full-on falling in love in the midst of being in a boy band fic.
- I'm kind of obsessed with this picture of Nick and his mom. There's something about the way he's standing that I love, and I also enjoy that they're in front of a giant mirror and his mom is doing her makeup in the tiny mirror on her compact.
- This is a video where Nick shows off what I googled to find out is a legit designer necklace, but is also a thick chain with a padlock, and I one million percent need the story where he's showing off because his dom gave him a collar.
- Once upon a time, One Direction was on Graham Norton with Ian McKellen and, unsurprisingly, Harry flirts with and cuddles up to Sir Ian. I would read that fic.
- This picture of Nick gives me alllll the I'm a lesbian but I want to climb into his lap and cuddle feelings.
- Harry is on a world tour and he hasn't worn the same stage outfit twice.
- There's an interview I'm too lazy to google for you where Liam says that at one point a producer told him that he could look at each of the other members of the band and see exactly what kind of music they would make, but that Liam could make a variety of kinds of music. Having watched some live performances and a couple of videos, it seems completely obvious that Liam would make the kind of music he's making.
- Side note: Liam and his partner legitimately named their son Bear.
- I love Liam's Bedroom Floor, and then I kept hearing Maroon 5's "Wait" on the radio and thinking, "That sounds kind of like "Bedroom Floor," so I looked them up on Wikipedia and they have two of the same writers. I was very proud of myself for recognizing that. I also listened to some One Direction songs that people suggested I might like and didn't make it more than about a minute into "18" before I thought, "Is this an Ed Sheeran song?" I was right about that too.
- Nick is leaving The Breakfast Show at the end of the summer. He'll still be on the radio, but this still feels like a get into a fandom, the fandom gets cancelled situation.
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