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Midnight memories 1d album8/15/2023 ![]() The tracks were revealed with a mixture of hints and fill in the gap questions. On October 11, 2013, One Direction revealed the track listing for the album via a "#MidnightMemoriesTrackQuiz" on Twitter. The early access was only available to those people who had a membership with the online version of the newspaper. The artwork was released early exclusively by tabloid newspaper The Sun's Twitter account. On September 17, 2013, Niall tweeted that he will be playing guitar on some of the tracks on the album. Later, the full video was posted on Instagram with Harry spelling the whole name of the album, Midnight Memories. The official album title was revealed on September 6, 2013, after Zayn tweeted a short video with Harry writing out the word "Mid." from alphabet letters. The track listing for the album was leaked on July 2, 2013. The album was announced simultaneously with news of the band's third world tour, the Where We Are Tour. However, each perfectly formed little nugget of pop makes its way into your head just in the way you’d expect from a 1D album, and I hope they keep making them like this.Įven if I will still be listening in secret.One Direction began work on their third studio album while embarking on their second world tour, the Take Me Home Tour. Some tentative rock influences do dart in now and then, notably in ‘Little Black Dress’, but you can’t listen to the album the whole way through without getting bored of the sound. It’s to their credit that the boys have had more creative input into this particular album, with Louis and Liam apparently writing most of the tracks themselves.I think their main issue is simply repetitiveness – they’ve cracked their sound and they’re keeping it, but perhaps keeping it too consistently. ![]() Some of the tracks even have an (almost)meaningful feel, such as ‘Half A Heart’. I challenge you to find a more uplifting getting-ready-to-go-out song than ‘Best Song Ever’ after a dull day of essay-writing. The first two tracks, their latest singles ‘Best Song Ever’ and ‘Story Of My Life’, really show off their feel-good pop vibe. With this new album, they’ve not really attempted to move away from their squeaky-clean sound, but some sort of weird post-punk One Direction album would be so wrong. Not to mention that any 1D purchase inevitably puts more cash into Simon Cowell’s grubby little hands.īut one thing is hard to ignore that, though their success may be manufactured and image-driven, they’re still making great pop music. I generally dislike manufactured pop, and it’s pretty much universally agreed that artists with proper integrity write all their own songs and play their own instruments. The question you’re probably asking at this point is “WHY?” A few months ago, I’d have asked the same thing. This whole situation culminated in an ‘ironic’ (read ‘completely serious’) viewing of their film, This Is Us, in September. After that fiasco, I found myself quite regularly using private listening mode in order to hide my secret addiction. ![]() I realised this after receiving several texts asking why my Spotify profile showed that I’d been listening to One Direction for the past hour. I’m not a 13-year-old girl, but I have to confess that at some point during the summer, I somehow became a closet ‘Directioner’. After all, most 13-year-old girls would give it a five star rating before they’d even finished listening to the first song. A review of a One Direction album needs to be accompanied by a bit of context. ![]()
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