The band’s songs are in first person and usually addressed to girls, specifically girls named Diana and Olivia.
It is hard to believe that the boys of One Direction have the romance problems they sing about, since they have a whole world full of girls willing to be with them.
While some individual songs could potentially lift your mood, the whole album together creates a solemn and sad mood since the songs all have to do with different types of failed romances.
If listening to the whole album nonstop - all 17 songs - it all sounds like one drawn out song about heartbreak and love. The new songs are all unique in their own way, but they only sound unique when listened to one at a time. READ Broadway's Revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof' Spotlights Themes Still Relevant Today For the songs “What a Feeling” and “Olivia,” the band brings the word pop to a whole new level, and in the process leave listeners bobbing their heads and tapping their foot to the catchy lyrics. While sitting on the bus on the way home from school, listening to the song feels like everyone should grab their guitars and rocking chairs and do the hoedown on the front porch. The new album did hold a lot of surprises like the song “History,” which has a country vibe with acoustic guitars. 13 release of “Made in the AM,” the eager earphones of fans were filled with sounds of guitars and the grown up voices of the band. Maybe the band would finally take their music in another direction, appealing to more than just fainting and blushing teenage girls. The band surprised radio listeners with a song filled with beat drops and a hip-hop aura which led to much excitement for the upcoming album. The song was definitely unexpected since it was not like their usual pop romance ballads. The first sneak peek the fans had of the album was “Drag Me Down” which was released with a bang on radio stations around the world. Read the full interview in Dazed magazine, out now.As the Zayn Malik era ended for One Direction this past spring, another door opened and it was time to release their 5 th album, “Made in the AM.” The four remaining members of One Direction, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, and Niall Horan, needed to prove to their fans that they still deserve to be on top of the charts even without one of their members. Those lines are becoming more and more blurred.' 'And I think what's exciting about right now is you can wear what you like. Speaking in an interview accompanying the striking new images, Harry said: 'To not wear because it's females' clothing, you shut off a whole world of great clothes. Posting one of the shoot images to Instagram, he shared the tongue in cheek caption 'bring back manly men'. #BringBackManlyMen.'įollowing the backlash, Harry poked fun at Candace's tirade, with another feminine shoot in Variety magazine. 'Showing me 50 examples of something won't make it any less stupid. 'I'm impervious to woke culture,' she said. In retort of one responder claiming she was '50 years behind on culture and education', insisting male artists – such as Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Kurt Cobain – have been 'crossdressing' for decades, Owens wrote: 'PSA: Mining pictures on the internet of men in dresses is not going to suddenly make me attracted to men in dresses. Real women don't do fake feminism,' she continued. 'Terms like 'toxic masculinity', were created by toxic females. 'Since I'm trending I'd like to clarify what I meant when I said 'bring back manly men',' she wrote in response to the backlash at the time. In what she described as 'the steady feminization of our men', in a thread of tweets Candace addressed the controversy her comments since provoked and sought also to reiterate her stance on the matter. While the Grammy winner opted to shake things up with his sartorial choices, donning a ball gown and a custom Gucci jacket, the activist took umbrage to the singer's shoot, writing: 'There is no society that can survive without strong men … bring back manly men.' Slam: His Vogue headlines sparked a debate when it was released, with right-wing commentator Candace Owens hitting headlines by blasting the styling and the 'steady feminization of our men' (pictured in 2019)