One Direction is a British-Irish boy band that gained popularity on the show The X Factor.
SARA EDWARDS: Late last year, I declared that I didn’t like One Direction because they suddenly started showing up on my Tumblr dashboard and Twitter Feed randomly. I didn’t know who they were or what genre of music they were, I just didn’t like them. When I got tired of seeing everyone talk about them, I gave them a shot. So I looked them up, listened to a song, and found myself listening to their whole album. There are more than several reasons why I like One Direction.
First, the accents. Do I need to further explain? Accents just win overeveryone automatically, no lie. Especially strong British accents, just another thing many people find attractive, including myself. Enough said.
Second, they’re attractive. There are hundreds of bands out there, and One Direction is one of the few I know that every member is good-looking. That was probably the main reason why I acknowledged that I didn’t like them beforehand. But when I scrolled through photos of them I was just thinking, “Seriously? Why are all of them gorgeous?” Looks aren’t everything, but they are a bonus.
Another reason why I love the guys of One Direction is because they have great voices. They’re all different, which is great because who would want a band full of the same singing voices?
Lastly, they are five awesome and comical guys. While they were on X Factor, they’d upload weekly video diaries to YouTube. They weren’t just the normal videos updating you on the latest news; they are utterly random and humorous. They are probably the post humorous people that I’ve ever heard of.
NELSON: One Direction is a group of no-talent losers between the ages of 18 and 20 with fans who are on average 13 years old. They are the most overrated group ever. They have one popular song and now all of a sudden they are “the best group ever”? Actually, they have plenty of songs but people have never heard of any of those besides What Makes You Beautiful.
One reason I don’t like them is that they’re totally manipulating their target audience of insecure teenagers with their lyrics. In What Makes You Beautiful, for example, they say, “You're insecure, don’t know what for.”
Second, their lyrics are not very creative. They sing the same words over and over again, because they don’t have the talent to come up with their own. One Direction does not always write their own lyrics, and their lyrics are very cliché.
One Direction doesn’t have real talent; it’s all studio noise. They sound like a bunch of auto-tuned kids. They don’t have real talent. They can’t be a band because they don’t know how to play any instruments.
Finally, I don’t have any problem with pop music - just not the way they do it.
