One Direction's Swan Song
From left: Are 1D’s Niall Horan, Styles, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson saying goodbye? One Direction’s Swan Song (For Now) WITH THE SUDDEN DEPARTURE OF ZAYN on its last album, 2014’s ballad-heavy Four. Here, when the Malik in March, One Direction, one of the boys once again go trawling the ’80s for inspiration, they swap biggest boy bands in history, officially became a Journey-style power-schlock for songs like “What a Feeling,” foursome. This naturally bolstered the Beatles a soulful soft-rocker strong enough to be someone’s third- comparisons fans have been making since 2011, favorite Hall & Oates jam. “Walking in the Wind,” from the when these new-millennium long-haired British album’s deluxe edition, is Paul Simon’s Graceland for beginners. lads topped the Billboard 200 with their debut Best of all: the booming stadium-doo-wop oddity “Never ONE DIRECTION album, Up All Night. Theirco) three subsequent Enough,” which amazingly blends “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Made in the A.M. studio LPs also reached No. 1, and with with Phil Collins’ “Sussudio.” Columbia/Syco “Perfect” — the second single from Made in the As for Beatles-biting bits: Opener “Hey Angel” pairs A.M., their fifth album — the formerX Factor psychedelic guitars and strings with a kind of John-and-Yoko U.K. contestants notched their fifth top 10 debut on the Billboard sentiment (“I wish I could be more like you/Do you wish you Hot 100, breaking a record held by the original Fab Four. could be more like me?”).
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