![]() ![]() It's safe to say these boys have been very busy. He was even the winning judge, with Dalton Harris helping Tomlinson beat Simon Cowell's act Scarlett Lee. In 2018, Louis went back to where it all began: X Factor. There will be another 1D baby in 2020, with Zayn and supermodel partner Gigi Hadid expecting their first child.Īnd that's not it, Harry Styles also found the time to take a lead role in an Oscar-nominated film. Louis meanwhile has a little boy called Freddie! Liam's son is called Bear, and he co-parents with former X Factor judge Cheryl Cole. If you're wondering why Louis and Liam only managed one album each, well, they both became fathers. There have been two solo albums by Harry, two by Zayn, three by Niall, one by Louis and one by Liam. In the last five years they've been keeping busy as solo musicians. 2016 - 2020: Solo performances, movies, and babies ![]() Towards the end of the year the remaining members made farewell performances on the American and British X Factor shows, and a New Years's Eve television show in the US. It was revealed around the release of the album that the band would be going on "hiatus" in 2016 - in other words, having a long break. The album debuted at number one in a host of countries, but only reached number two in the United States, ending their perfect record of hitting the top of the album charts there. The boys filmed it at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Their first song, Drag Me Down, was out of this world. In July the group was back with new material, the first work without Malik. Is there anything they can't do? Well, 2015 would show that yes, there was something they couldn't manage. By the end of the year it had had almost 400,000 retweets. Everyone who has worked with us thank you.". Thank you to everyone who is involved in this. On 23 July he celebrated the group's anniversary by saying, "4 years. The record reached number one in the United States, making the group the only band in the 58-year history of the US Charts to have their first four records debut at number one.Īs if 2014 hadn't been busy enough, the band also found time for their third book, One Direction: Where We Are: Our Band, Our Story: 100% Official.Īnd if you thought an album, a tour, and a book wasn't enough, Harry Styles also managed to achieve the year's most retweeted tweet. They did however find time to record their fourth album, imaginatively titled Four. TMZ reports that he has broken up with Gigi, with whom he. But even from the missteps to the highlights to the nonsensical, every 1D moment is essential to their myth-making.One Direction spent most of the year on a world tour, playing 69 shows around the world. Zayn Malik is facing charges following a blowout fight with Yolanda Hadid, the mother of his longtime partner Gigi Hadid, last month. To celebrate their tenth anniversary, I’ve ranked every single song in One Direction’s catalog, which is one of the most consistent discographies in recent pop memory, and included an MVP for each track to recognize the standout member or moment on that particular cut. Their sound wasn’t about legitimizing themselves in order to be really taken seriously as artists, because the millions of young women who made them megastars were already doing that. That’s because the regard One Direction held for their audience was higher than that. There was never a sense of elitism from One Direction - even when their music moved toward electric guitars, it didn’t feel like it was to win over the people who wouldn’t think to look to a boy band for some of the last decade’s best rock music. Often described as an “edgier” boy band, they evolved from standard pop fare to interpolating the signifiers of classic rock, but excelled at both. Not that One Direction even needed that mythos to enhance their music - the songs were already excellent. Every post, picture, interview and gesture was dissected and analyzed along with the music, building a deep lore that’s just as essential as the songs. As the first big boy band of the social media age, they were accessible in a way those kinds of stars had never been before. Dating History: Louis dated Eleanor Calder after reportedly meeting through One Direction’s management company in 2011. The rest is h istory - and by history I mean their every movement from that moment on was chronicled by a fandom of dedicated Directioners. But instead of going home and trying again next year, they were morphed into a different mold - why not put these cute, flippy-haired boys together? After their shaky auditions of varying degrees of nervousness, it seemed evident that Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan wouldn’t end up being the Justin Bieber clones Simon Cowell was looking for when he put every cute, flippy-haired boy through to the next round. ![]() Ten years ago, five young lads were cut from a singing competition. ![]()
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