Earlier this week the world went crazy over rumours Harry Styles was leaving One Direction to kick-start his solo career. Luckily it was all lies.
But last night, Liam Payne admitted he too has been working ALONE in the studio without his 1D boys – Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik.
Cue mass panic.
However, it turns out nobody needs to worry (again) because 20-year-old Liam was actually penning a ‘banger’ of a dance track for 1D.
Sharing a snap of him heading home after his studio session on Instagram last night, he wrote: ‘Just going to bed been studio written a pure banger for you guys who like dance more info to come.’
Could this pave the way for a whole new One Direction?
Either way, fans are already excited with one commenting, ‘Can’t wait!!!’, while another could barely handle the news, writing: ‘Stop making me love you more than I already do. Love ya Liam.’
Another was more interested in his looks, saying: ‘You’re so emo.’
Summer is here! We’re holding out for as much sun as we can get, and we thought we had all of our summer essentials ready, but there’s one thing missing.
If we’re planning on spending all summer drowning out the sound of our parents nagging and the neighbours cutting the grass then there’s only one thing for it – a top One Direction playlist.
We’ve picked our favourite One Direction summer tunes which will sit proudly at the top of our ‘most played’ playlist this year. So, feast your ears on these…
1. Best Song Ever
There’s really no other song that will do the job better than this one. After all, it’s the best song ever.
2. What Makes You Beautiful
Can One Direction please take us to the beach so we can stand in front of the sea flipping our hair for them?
3. Summer Love
The clue is in the title, really.
4. Live While We’re Young
We’re young, we’re living and we’re certainly going to make the most of this summer. Are you with us?
5. Alive
‘Don’t look back, live your life, even if it’s only for tonight.’ One Direction have really got this whole living to the max thing down.
6. I Would
Nothing gets the party started quite like a good sing-along to this little number.
7. Kiss You
Just because everyone wants Harry Styles to be kissing them on the back of a motorbike. Am I right?
8. Happily
Are we going to be ‘happily’ bopping along to One Direction all summer long? Yes, yes we are.
9. Stole My Heart
Skip back to One Direction’s Up All Night album and we’re sure you’ll remember this party banger.
10. Up All Night
If there’s one thing that’s good about the summer holidays, then it’s being able to stay up all night and sleep all day. So, this is perfect.
What’s your favourite One Direction summer song? ;)
So far: - 61 album and single no.1’s worldwide - The last album, ‘Take Me Home’, was no.1 in 37 counties - Their debut album, ‘Up All Night’ became no.1 in 17 countries - The only UK band to have their first 2 albums debut at 1 in US - The first British band since The Beatles to have 2 no.1 albums in the same year in the US - Winners of 2 Brit Awards in 2012 for ‘Best British Single’ and 2013 for ‘Global Success Award’ - Awarded 3 MTV VMA’s and 3 MTV EMA’s - Received NRJ award for ‘Best International Group’ - Won 3 Billboard Music Awards for ‘Top Duo/Group’, ‘Top New Artist’, ‘Top Pop Artist’. - 2 x Sunday times bestselling books - A sold out 2013 UK Arena tour - Over 18.5 million Facebook fans and 71 million combined followers on Twitter
This year: - World stadium tour announced for 2014 - Launched their own fragrance ‘Our Moment’ - Set to release their movie ‘This is Us’ in cinemas worldwide - Their new single ‘Best Song Ever’ releasing 22 July 2013
Meet Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson - together they are One Direction. It’s hard to believe that just three years ago these five boys hadn’t even met each other. But with the help of the biggest television show in the UK, The X Factor, their millions of loyal fans and some killer songs, One Direction have become a global phenomenon. And this is their incredible story…
Get ready to never look at One Direction in the same light again.
Imagine if Harry Styles, Zayn Malik and co, were not the embodiment of manufactured pop perfection and instead, were full-blown heavy metal rock gods…
After all, when you think about it, there’s not much between attending one of their shows and say, one of Lamb Of God’s, right? YouTuber somethingtowatch decided to put the theory to the test and with a surprising outcome.
Moshing? Check. Electric guitars? Check. A screaming Harry styles? Er, check.
While it’s not exactly What Makes You Beautiful, syncing One Direction clips to this does strangely work.
Expect a new One Direction album later this year (Picture: Eric Gaillard / Reuters/Reuters)
From Up All Night and Take Me Home to Midnight Memories,
One Direction’s sound has continued to develop further
through each of their albums, and it can only carry on
in the same ‘direction’.
We’ve gone from some pretty cheesy pop, to some more cheesy pop,
to a surprising but awesome new pop-rock style.
Keeping up with their trend of releasing an album every year,
they’ll bring out their fourth record later in 2014,
and it’s set to be their best yet.
What do we know about it so far though?
In their previous albums, we’ve seen tracks penned by stars such
as Ed Sheeran, Kelly Clarkson and McFly’s Tom Fletcher,
Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter. In their more recent releases,
the One Direction boys themselves have started to write tracks,
something they’re going to be doing even more of for album number four.
Although the previous album has only been out for a few months,
the boys have already been working with many exciting writers
for their new record.
Niall has reunited with McFly’s Tom, Danny and Dougie to write some music,
following the success of their Midnight Memories tune
Don’t Forget Where You Belong.
On March 18, he tweeted: ‘Last night I wrote a song with @Dannymcfly @dougiemcfly and @tommcfly’
Then, one day later, he wrote: ‘Just wrote another cool song with danny,dougie and tom!What a laugh that was!’
So, that’s not one, but TWO songs written by Niall and McFly! Exciting! So, that’s the return of McFly confirmed for the album, but are there any new writers?
Well, the boys have revealed they’ve been working with some other names. Irish rock band Kodaline recently teased that they’d written an ‘unrequited love song’ with Harry, while Zayn has been working with producer Naughty Boy and his long-term collaborator Emeli Sande.
So, that’s Niall, Harry and Zayn all working with different people – What have Liam and Louis been up to?
Well, they both headed off to LA to write songs, teaming up with long-time American rockers Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte member Benji tweeted about the work, revealing that 1D’s ‘new album is crazy’.
So, that’s a bit of an idea of who is writing, but WHAT are they writing?
As we said earlier, One Direction’s musical style has developed from pop to a sort of rock-based sound, specifically in most recent album Midnight Memories. Tunes like Little Black Dress and Alive surprised us all – If we didn’t know it was One Direction singing, we’d probably have never guessed!
We can expect this new style for the boys to continue, especially as they’re working with rock artists such as Kodaline and Good Charlotte. But could we be getting a more urban sound alongside it?
Producer Naughty Boy could introduce a new twist to the band’s music, and there’s also a rumour that Zayn is going to try his hand at rapping! A source told The Sun: ‘Zayn’s loved getting creative and is fast gaining confidence to try out new things musically. He even plucked up the courage to try to give rapping a shot. Everyone has been impressed with the results. The results sound similar to Drake.’
Sounds interesting, right?
No matter what new musical direction the boys wander off into, there’s still likely to be some classic 1D style tunes on the album. Even on Midnight Memories, in between the adventurous new rock tracks, there were still songs like Best Song Ever, Don’t Forget Where You Belong and Does He Know?, which could have easily slotted in on Take Me Home.
So, that’s pretty much all we know so far!
It leaves us to wonder what the album will be called though…
Following the trend of Up All Night, Take Me Home and Midnight Memories, the fourth album could quite easily be called That’s Not My Baby or something like that.
We’re sure that whatever One Direction ends up putting out, it will sound great and be adored by Directioners.
Harry Styles has yet again proved he’s the kind-hearted gentleman we had him down as.
The 20-year-old was put to the test by Matt Healy (son of Denise Welch and Tim Healy and lead singer of The 1975) on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 breakfast show during the latest round of Call Or Delete.
The game sees celebs prank call their high-profile contacts live on air and when he was called up, Hazza didn’t disappoint.
After a quick apology for the early morning wake-up call, Matt said: ‘I was just wondering, this is going to sound ridiculous, but I’m trying to get in touch with Niall…
‘Basically I need £5k, I’m in Chalk Farm (north London) and I’m having an emergency… it’s actually quite a serious situation.
‘I’m in a phone booth and a bloke is pointing at a picture of [Take That’s] Mark Owen. It’s actually quite threatening.’
Taking the matter very seriously indeed, Harry replied: ‘OK, well, we’re in Bristol. But let me go and I’ll get my assistant to call you and she’ll sort it out.’
We can’t quite imagine Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan behaving in quite the same way. Can you?
Exclusive: The Voice hopeful Rachael O’Connor wants to be a star to get close to her idols One Direction, she revealed.
But before the boys rush to get a restraining order against the 17-year-old, she has promised she is ‘no stalker’.
‘I am obsessed with 1D,’ said Rachael, of Derry in Northern Ireland.
So how will she react if she meets the boys?
‘I wouldn’t be like “I love you, marry me”,’ she said.
‘I’d act really cool and hopefully they’d want to be my friend.’
It seems she harbours hopes to be most friendly with Liam Payne, 20.
‘He’s become the bad boy. He’s just cool,’ she said.
Rachael’s ‘no wild child’, however. She played good-girl-gone-bad Sandy Olsson in a Grease stage show recently and admitted: ‘I couldn’t strut. It isn’t for me.’
