Post 27: Freaking Out About Friday (1-29-14)

The fandom has been buzzing this week because One Direction announced that they are releasing their video for Midnight Memories on Friday. Videos are always really exciting because there are all the antics that come with a One Direction video, along with the excitement that comes with trying to break the Vevo Record.

This week the One Direction official Twitter account has been releasing gifs from the video to give a sneak peak. It always makes me really excited for the video because they give us peeks of all of the action that's going to happen in the video. I also really like the song "Midnight Memories" because it's the title song of the album and really sets up the sound for the entire album. Here are a few of the gifs I've seen so far with some of my own added commentary to go along with it.

Why are they riding scooters and why are they so slow? It reminds me of those supermarket scooters.

 

At first I thought it was smoke, but now I'm thinking baby powder and I'm so confused.

Who does he want to call him and why does he remind me of a Greaser from The Outsiders here?

 

Now they're on a boat. Why are they on a boat and why is Niall flashing a Titanic type pose?

"We have arrived!"

 

 



I find the fandom so much fun when a new video comes out because everyone is posting reaction videos, ranting on Tumblr, spamming on Twitter, trying to break the Vevo record, and overall, just freaking out. All I know is, I'm freaking out and I'm going to be freaking out even more on Friday.

Friendly warning: the video comes out at 4 P.M. GMT which is 11 A.M. EST so I'm most likely going to end up watching the video in Journalism. Don't be alarmed if you hear any strange inhumane sounds coming from my direction (One Direction).

Post 26: One Direction and Little Mix on Tour Together? (1-28-14)

Lately I've seen rumors surfacing that Little Mix is going to be going on tour as the opening act for One Direction's Where We Are tour this year. I'm trying not to get excited over it yet because rumors are called rumors for a reason and if it's not true, I'll get too disappointed.

There are a few things that I'm wary of. First off, I feel like Little Mix and One Direction would have conflicting fan bases. I could see Mixers purchasing tickets just to see Little Mix and then leaving after Little Mix performs. However, I think there are quite a few fans that like both and would be delighted if Little Mix opened up for One Direction.

Some people are saying Little Mix's tour dates conflict with One Direction's tour dates, but from what I've seen, they end their tour with Demi Lovato in March, and One Direction's tour starts sometime in August. So this could be possible. There is a possibility here.

It's strange because I don't even like Little Mix that much. I like a few of their songs and I think they're all gorgeous and very talented, but that's about it. I think it's very cool because both groups were formed in the same way. Both groups were composed of solo artists on the X-Factor who didn't make it as solo artists and then were both put into groups. Well, the groups made it, didn't they?

Also, maybe it's a bit of the fangirl in me, but Zayn from One Direction is engaged to Perrie from Little Mix, so they would be touring together, and that would just be amazing. Anyone up for a tour wedding?

Post 25: Grammys Grumblings (1-27-14)

As many people know, the Grammys were last night so a lo of people are bound to be talking about it. I'm here to talk not about the Grammys, but something that people have been talking about: the fact that One Direction was not nominated for a Grammy.

I didn't really care (I think my mom was more upset than I was) but a lot of fans were upset about that. I looked at an article and it said that there's a weird eligibility period where albums are not eligible for this year's Grammys unless they were released between September 2012 and October 2013. So Midnight Memories would not be eligible because it was released in November 2013. What confuses me though, is Take Me Home was released in November 2012 so that would be eligible. Maybe it just wasn't good enough.

This fandom has been pissing me off a little bit lately. They get so angry about stupid things and they're giving our fandom a bad name. I feel like I'm pretty chill. I think people need to stop getting so hung up on stupid things like Grammy nominations. So one Direction wasn't nominated for a Grammy, so what? They were nominated for a bunch of other things. 

I honestly think that people are kind of blowing it out proportion. Yeah, it stinks that they we're nominated, but there are plenty of other years to win Grammys. 

Post 24: My Own Superlatives (1-24-14)

Today the Seniors in my school are doing Senior Superlatives and naming the people in our grade as "Best Dressed," "Cutest Couple," etc. I decided to do my own Superlatives on here, but for One Direction.

Louis: Class Clown
I pick Louis for Class Clown because even he said that he was the rowdy boy in school. On tour he's always making jokes and pulling pranks on people. He's very funny and always wants to make people laugh.

Zayn: Most Calm, Cool, and Collected
I think Zayn would be a good fit for this category because he's very chill. One time in an interview the boys had to describe each other and they described Zayn as "relaxed, chill, chill, and relaxed." He's always very calm, and I think it's a very good quality to have when you have such a crazy job.

Liam: Most Musical
Liam auditioned for the X-Factor twice when he was in school and also went yo a lot of gigs on weekends just to sing. If they had Senior Superlatives at Liam's school, I'm sure he would win this. He's very serious and passionate about music and he deserves to be in this category.

Niall: Class Cutie
Niall is just adorable. He's very happy go lucky and makes everyone laugh and smile. They boys have said that if they're having a rough day, Niall is the one to make them feel better. There was one scene in their movie when one of the boys was talking to the camera and Niall just sticks his face in the camera, holds up a football (soccer ball) and screams, "Football!" He's very adorable.

Harry: Class Flirt
No doubt about it, Harry is the flirt of the group. He's very charming, cheeky, and flirty. One scene during the movie he went back to his hometown and went to a field. Then he started walking towards these woods and said, "I had my first kiss in these woods... up against a tree... It got pretty heated." Now that's a flirt if I've ever seen one.

This was just a fun little thing I wanted to do. Sometimes it's hard to imagine the boys being in High School because they're older now, but doing things like this makes it a little easier to imagine.

Post 23: Tumblr and Tyler Oakley (1-23-14)

The other night while all of the Twitter drama was happening between Liam Payne and Tyler Oakley, I saw that a lot of people were posting their opinions about it all on Tumblr. So I joined in and spoke my mind.

 

Then on Sunday I was randomly looking through my notifications and I saw this:

That made me really excited. A lot of people say that Tyler Oakley stalks his tag but I didn't really believe them. Well, I do now. I thought it was pretty cool that he saw what I had to say and liked it (literally and figuratively). Sometimes it's really hard to be in the public eye and take criticism but I think he accepted my criticism. I was not rude, I argued both sides, and gave them both the benefit of the doubt. I feel that's only fair.

I was kind of confused as to why I was so excited that Tyler liked my post. People seem so into these things lately. "Follow me," "Like my post," "Reblog." It's almost as if these things we get from celebrities are badges of honor. "Oh yeah, I have 4 out of 5 members of One Direction following me." People seem to measure their worth these days by numbers. Number of likes on a selfie. Number of followers on this social media platform. Number of reblogs. Number of celebrity followers... number... number... number.

Maybe it was always like this, just different. Actually meeting the celebrity as opposed to getting them to follow you. Actually getting an autograph as opposed to an electronic reply. Maybe in a few years it will just get worse. "I met Justin Bieber's hologram today." Let's hope not. I think one of each celebrity is enough for now.

Post 22: Promotion for a Parody? (1-22-14)

So a while ago I had seen a video saying that One Direction was going to be on Sesame Street. I was extremely excited about this because after seeing Tom Hiddleston on Sesame Street with Cookie Monster, I thought celebrities on Sesame Street was pretty cute. 

Then today I see this video:

I really hope that it's only a promotion because it cut off quite suddenly and I really want more. I hope all of them end up singing because it's a pretty big pet peeve of mine when not all of them sing. I think they all have great voices and I want to hear them all equally.

I kind of hope that they do something else other than singing. Maybe they'll teach British words to a few of the characters while Niall sits there looking angry and slightly confused. Now that is something I want to see.

Post 21: Duck Dynasty, Drama, Directioners, Drama, and a Little More Drama (1-19-14)

Normally I only write on school days,

but it's a long weekend so I'm not sure I can survive that long without blogging. Alright, the main reason I'm really writing this post is because there has been major drama. It started off with a little bit of Twitter drama but now it has escalated into a hot mess.

Saturday night Liam tweeted this:

Now, it's a pretty vague tweet. If no one knows who he's tweeting to, it's Willie Robertson from Duck Dynasty. I don't watch the show so I didn't really know anything about the tweet, nor did I really care, until a lot of buzz started generating.

Tyler Oakley, a YouTuber, tweeted this:

So I had to do my research because things were starting to get nasty and I had absolutely no clue why. 

Alright. So Willie's dad made so anti-gay remarks, and Tyler is inferring that because Liam said "he supports their family values" that he supports the anti-gay remarks. I can see where Tyler is coming from, but I honestly think it's a bit of a stretch. I think Willie was thinking of adopting a kid, maybe he supports that. Maybe he supports the way Willie is handling the bad press he's getting through this. The tweet was so vague so it's easy to jump to assumptions. Now, Tyler should of stopped there, but of course not. Why stop there?

Hold it right there, Tyler. Liam said absolutely nothing about supporting bigotry and homophobia. It's a very vague tweet and it's really hard to make assumptions based like that. If you constantly make assumptions based on very vague things, you're going to live a very unhappy life.

Alright now this pissed me off. No matter what Tyler does, no one should ever tell him to go kill himself. He is a man with feelings and he was just trying to defend something he believes in. He is openly gay but he's also a huge Directioner so it's not like he was trying to start things on purpose because he hates Liam and wants to get him in trouble. 

I understand that you support the LGBT community but that tweet was so vague and you're assuming things and completely blowing this out of proportion. 

As this was going on, I see a tweet from Jack (thatsojack) to Tyler.

For those of you who don't know what he's talking about, in One Direction's music video for "Best Song Ever," they had alter egos of sorts. They were themselves in the video but they also dressed up as people from a major Hollywood company and did a bit of an acting skit. Liam dressed up as Leroy, the choreographer:

That's what Jack was talking about. Then he didn't stop there.

Thank you for being rational, Jack. At least someone has a head on their shoulders. Jack is also a Directioner, and he may be gay but I'm not totally sure so don't quote me on that. I do know that Jack supports the LGBT community so he's not being homophobic or anything.

Liam tweets this to explain and as I saw on Tumblr, some people were pissed off because he didn't officially apologize. What is he apologizing for? He said nothing about being homophobic! People need to stop assuming the worst in people. 

This kind of pissed me off a little. I love Tyler dearly, but who does he think he is? Liam didn't say anything about being homophobic, so I don't really understand what he means by "being accountable for your words" maybe you're the one who needs to realize that your "words have more weight than you realize" because you blew this whole thing out of proportion and look what happened. 

I thought it was over. Liam stayed on Twitter for a little while and replied to fans, Tyler stayed off the radar for a little while, and I went to bed figuring that everything was done and I would have an awesome blogpost to write on Tuesday.

With me thinking about writing about all this drama, maybe I should have realized that if I, an aspiring journalist wants to write about Twitter drama, then the real ones probably do too. I woke up to this.

(All tweets should be read from bottom up)

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Well this has turned into one big hot mess. That's the one thing I don't like about journalism. Journalists look for stories and they go where the drama is, but a lot of times the stories hurt the people they're about. Liam is going to get bad press about it, and I'm sure his little tirade on Twitter isn't helping. He probably shouldn't have gotten so angry publicly like that because that can be used against him. No twisting his words this time because the tweets are all there. 

Liam's sister tweeted the above tweet in a last ditch attempt to salvage what was left of her brother's reputation in this blow up but I think it's just a little too late. The damage has been done. 

However, a little later I saw this:

This upsets me and I totally believe it. Liam has been on tour practically the whole of three years. Whenever he's off tour he probably just wants to catch up on sleep and hang out with family and friends. He probably doesn't really watch tv. So he was watching Duck Dynasty, admired the way Willie raises his family despite all of the media and this growing business, and decided to tell Willie that he liked that and supported those family values. He had no idea that Phil, Willie's father, had just recently had gotten into controversy for anti-gay statements. "I can't do anything right, can I?" That remark broke my heart. This is a boy who has messed up time and time again through no fault of his own and he's just trying to live as normal of a life as possible without offending anyone. That's apparently not possible. 

I don't even know what to say. The amount of drama that exploded in a few hours over one probably poorly worded tweet is pretty sickening to me. Tyler is getting death threats, Liam's reputation is being soiled, people are taking sides and there's drama, and I just want to take refuge in a fandom where there is no drama and I can be peaceful until this all blows over. 

Post 20: Niall's Knee (1-17-14)

Recently, Niall had knee surgery to fix problems he had in his knee because of a soccer injury or something like that. He wrote these tweets on the matter. (Read from bottom up.)

Then photos surfaced after his surgery which was in the United States.

As long as he'll be okay for the upcoming tour, I'm fine. I guess he needs knee surgery considering he does a whole lot of this on stage.

Why does Niall need knee surgery? Hmm , I wonder why.