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One Direction.. I dont get the fuss over them at all |
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One Direction.. I dont get the fuss over them at all
I mean seriously. I remember watching them on X Factor all the way through and only got that far with the help of backing tracks. yet because of their following on Twitter they seem to be doing well
and no they are NOT they next Backstreet Boys or Nsync :yawn: |
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I think they're vastly overrated and their songs aren't all that good. What Makes You Beautiful is extremely annoying.
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The Hollies they certainly ain't. They're not even Take That.
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They'll come, they'll go - they won't leave a noteworthy mark on music or "the Industry", lets just be grateful of that!!
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I think they're OK although some of their fans are so obsessed it's scary
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People are talking about how hot they are, how great they look etc. Not how good their music is, that's what the fuss is.
However, What Makes You Beautiful & One Thing are extremely cheesy but incredibly catchy. Think they'll last longer than people are writing them off. |
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I think they are ok
A lot better than The Wanted |
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Gordon Smart, ('The Sun'), features them in his 'Bizarre'
Column about 4 or 5 days a week. He seems to see them as some sort of 'New Beatles'. Not that he's said that, but it is just the hype that he makes about them. On Saturday, he did a double page spread about them. He'd been sent over to Canada, to do a big report on how their North American promotion is getting on. He wrote about them as if it were 1964, & he'd been sent over to report on The Beatles making their first USA visit! There is far too much fuss about them. Like The Wanted, they are not even consistently big in the UK. I've seen it all before - 'Biggest since The Beatles!', fuss about the Bay City Rollers in 1974 & 1975, about Bros in 1988 & 1989, & so on. It never lasts more than 2 or 3 Years, & even then, most of these Acts are not that huge outside the UK. (Although Bay City Rollers Documentaries make out that they had 18 Top 5 Hits in the USA - when it was 1! 'Saturday Night' - No.1 in early 1976). |
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They are basically for pre-teen girls to scream over.
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agreed
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I can totally see it myself.
Put it this way. If I was 15 again I could see myself being totally obessed with Harry and that is what it comes down to for all boybands really. |
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I can totally see it myself.
Put it this way. If I was 15 again I could see myself being totally obessed with Harry and that is what it comes down to for all boybands really. ), it's more 11-12 year olds that are obsesssed, seems to me
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Really? I'd have thought you'd be a bit old at 15 (even for Harry
), it's more 11-12 year olds that are obsesssed, seems to me |
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Really? I'd have thought you'd be a bit old at 15 (even for Harry
), it's more 11-12 year olds that are obsesssed, seems to me
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and no they are NOT they next Backstreet Boys or Nsync :yawn:
I can see what the fuss is with One Direction (although I cannot stand them), but they were only put together to make money and they've definitely reached out to their target audience. They're there to make money for Simon Cowell or whoever they're signed with, nothing else. |
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Really? I'd have thought you'd be a bit old at 15 (even for Harry
), it's more 11-12 year olds that are obsesssed, seems to meBut having said that the pre-teen fans are most likely to buy the dolls and the 1D bedding , whereas the 'older' fans are most likely to buy tour tickets.
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Really? I'd have thought you'd be a bit old at 15 (even for Harry
), it's more 11-12 year olds that are obsesssed, seems to me ) But looking at all the newspaper pictures and you tubes viewing stats it seems they have a lot of fans from early teens up to mid twenties.I can understand the attraction Even at my mature age I can tell they are good looking boys and more importantly they all seem to have great personalities. IMO every girl needs a band or artist to obsess over . It is a rite of passage but what makes one band a girl's idol and another not who knows. I suppose it is a bit like chemistry it is either there or it isn't. I wish them well and hope they are a success across the pond. I wish we Brits weren't so hung up on not enjoying someone else's success. It isn't harming anyone and negative energy is not good for the soul
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Not really, a huge part of their fanbase is 16-18, basically people at sixth form. And some fans who are the same age as them 18-20 (and much older!) I think it's a bit of a stereotype to think their fans are only pre-teens.
But having said that the pre-teen fans are most likely to buy the dolls and the 1D bedding , whereas the 'older' fans are most likely to buy tour tickets. |
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Not really, a huge part of their fanbase is 16-18, basically people at sixth form. And some fans who are the same age as them 18-20 (and much older!) I think it's a bit of a stereotype to think their fans are only pre-teens.
But having said that the pre-teen fans are most likely to buy the dolls and the 1D bedding , whereas the 'older' fans are most likely to buy tour tickets. |
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I loathed them during X Factor, I called them No Direction (Not very original, I know) because they really didnt jel wll during their performances and one of them (Zayn, I think) kept messing up notes and dance moves which set them all off a bit.
But... They've made catchy, fun, teenager pop music that kind of translates into the young adult market. I haven't really seen them perform anywhere on TV properly since the X Factor finale, but their videos are alright. The "One Thing" video in particular struck me as being very The Monkees meet The Beatles. Fun. |
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IMO every girl needs a band or artist to obsess over . It is a rite of passage but what makes one band a girl's idol and another not who knows. I suppose it is a bit like chemistry it is either there or it isn't.
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Theyre the new beatles, thats for certain
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I think they're really good, they've improved loads since TXF and I've liked every song I've heard by them. They're all good looking aswell, so that's a bonus.
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Im glad youre coming around buddy
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