One thing one direction8/4/2023 Even as I write this piece, it is all I can do to not watch the video for “Steal My Girl” on a loop, as, you know, research. Most often 1D makes me feel light and lifted and full of gladness. Sometimes I feel sick afterward but most often not. I consume 1D in huge, voracious doses as one might a bag of Cheetos. I’m a trespasser disguised as a “mum.” In truth, I’ve logged hundreds of hours listening to 1D without my kids. It’s this last question that interests me most, because I, too, am here, willingly, happily, and I am not a girl. How many waitressing shifts, humid summer jobs, and hours babysitting does it take to hold these five boys aloft, to lard the fiefdom? How better might these girls’ energies be spent in humanitarian projects and education? And how best to understand their mania without dismissing it as a fault of their youth or gender? Tonight the mass of girls before me in the arena, swarming like insects, raises a question of economy. They’d fight any battle for their seigneurs. These girls build galaxies out of whole cloth. A third confesses she’d kill a cat, no, a goat, in order to meet the boys. Another girl says that if the boys asked her to chop off her arm, she would. The documentary film Crazy About One Direction records one fan admitting she got braces put on her teeth not because she needed them but because Niall had braces. They are honestly mad for love or whatever chemistry the band is brewing in their bodies. They are unembarrassed by their extreme passions. But I also love the hormonal girls who fill the ranks of 1D’s fans, Directioners. I love girls, my three girls in particular. One world tour ends in the States as the next starts up in Australia and every night that they perform, no matter the continent, a temporary city of girls appears. talent-show losers and squashed them into a boy band, 1D has become a massive weather system traveling the globe, chasing summer nights. In the five years since Simon Cowell plucked five teenagers from a slush pile of U.K. The boyfriends stayed away, as did 1D’s gay fans despite the lush homoeroticism of Harry, Zayn, Liam, Niall, and Louis strutting onstage in tight jeans. There are no boys at 1D shows except the boys. Most of these men are fathers checking sports scores on their devices, ignoring their daughter’s hysterical antics. A generous tally would have a hundred males in attendance. That’s 70,000 people in the New England Patriots’ home arena. One Direction has sold out Gillette Stadium. ![]() Tonight it’s late August all over the world. ![]() Though tonight Styles seems slightly off. The girls’ response is tidal, shrieking solid as a brick wall. He’ll lift the mic to damp, open lips, sharpen his blue steel, and bore a message of love into the sea of screaming fans. The heavy breathing and tossed, greased hair. Still, the Jumbotron tightens its focus as he prepares for another moment of intensity. ![]() Here’s to ten.Harry Styles has a cold or a hangover or a broken heart. to the boys, I love you so much, and I couldn’t be prouder of everything we achieved together. You did it all, and you changed everything. To all the fans, I love you, and I thank you with all my heart. Thank you to our crew, our team, and everyone else who helped us along the way. I just can’t believe it’s been ten years. And for that, I will be forever thankful. None of this would be possible without the support you’ve given along the way. ![]() I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with some of the most incredible people, and gained friendships that I know I will treasure for the rest of my life. I’ve seen things and places that I’d only ever dreamt of when I was growing up. The Adore You singer continued and said, “Especially in hindsight looking at it now, the last thing that I would’ve wanted is for him to have stayed there if he didn’t want to be there,” as reported by E!News.Īlso, on the 10th anniversary of One Direction, Harry Styles penned an emotional for his fans on Instagram and wrote, “I’ve been struggling to put into words how grateful I am for everything that’s happened over the last ten years. So, it’s hard for me to condemn it, ’cause I don’t.” Harry Styles said, “I don’t know if I could say it’s something he shouldn’t have done.
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