I am someone who has always liked boybands and that is partly because I could enjoy them for what they are/were. The good boybands have 3, 4, 5 solid singers who are good at harmonising and make fun, catchy music, and some nice ballads, often some good dancers thrown in. Apart from a notable few, the individual merits of the singers don’t necessarily live up to the group voice that comes from the boyband as a whole. I believe the best boybands are the ones who take more ownership of their songs and their sounds. The way they are looked down on is something I have always found annoying and elitist, mostly because it is a way to also look down on the largely-female fanbases. As a whole, the individual careers of former boyband members are very limited. In that sense, the former One Direction members have actually done well, especially when you consider how one individual was falsely pushed forward as the only real talented one and shoved down your throat, and how the people behind that inflated individual limited the careers of the others. A lot is said about the manufactured nature of boybands but the very vast majority of successful artists are manufactured, or at least their success is. Labels choose artists to make famous, to put money behind, to get played on the radio, and then shelve other artists who they think could be competition. How is that not manufactured? And that take ignores the very real talent you can find in the artists in those boybands. Not all, because there are some individuals from boybands throughout music history who have not been all that great, but definitely some. I thought all the One Direction boys were good enough individually to be good solo artists and that was never truer than with Louis. His solo music makes me happy. I want more for him and believe his music deserves to reach the gp because it is amazing but I can also be proud of what Louis has accomplished, how he has had to fight for his solo career and he did so, when it would have been much easier to rest on his laurels. We will never know just how bad it got for Louis behind the scenes and what he had to compromise on to have a career but I am so proud to see him grow and become the artist I always knew he could become. Faith in the Future is one of my favourite albums of all time and I love every single song. I never skip any of them. I am proud of Louis and what he has accomplished despite what he has been through
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I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw or a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently
it's SO funny that when asked what he had to do to prepare for his role in IWTV Sam Reid says he had to learn how to play the piano, learn to speak French, Italian, and English with a French accent. Bailey read IWTV religiously and added her own comments, and kept an actual fucking journal she wrote entirely as Claudia. meanwhile Jacob Anderson, when asked the same question, just responds with “oh nothing, i was already emo”. icons and legends only
I ain’t never gon’ have a family of my own, am I? No sons, no daughters. I’m your family, Louis. You should just throw me in the incinerator and make another one. And what a waste that would be. I have two centuries walked this Earth and can report, you have no twin.
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louis has always been this way but you had to dig deep for it. In 1d circus he was never the focus. He never had a management team building up his profile while in band. He was busy taking care of the band behind the scenes. Whatever fan moments happened were never marketed. It was infact not cool to be a louie girl in 1d era. But that's what has always set us apart. Those who loved him, loved him to death. Still do. This Louie shit is really for life😅. Once you get to knw him you can never get over him.
That is the truth.
Louis’ intelligence — not just wit, but real smartness— was always there, always working.
His compassion and tendency to watch out for others was always there too. His commitment to charity and fairness.
Louis’ fundamental decency as a person, tied in with his humility and self-deprecation. He checks his privilege constantly, doesn’t overstep.
His warmth and happiness, the way he embraces his life.
None of this was marketed in 1D. His huge personality was pushed to the margins. But eventually, all of their personalities were stripped away when they were separated, and Louis remained himself.