But honestly, you'd probably be happy with any of them. The perfect man would be a combination of all five of them, but perfection like that doesn't exist. I've highlighted what all of their dates were like below, complete with a photo to imagine yourself in the scenario. Now it's time for you to choose your own 1D guy. Of course, nothing can be perfect and each date ends in disaster, but I'll let you watch the whole thing to see what goes down. Each girl has a completely different experience - although it could be one girl dating all of them no judgement here - as the evening goes on. It starts out with Zayn Malik's romantic dinner, then shows us Liam Payne's carnival fun, Harry Styles' ice skating rendezvous, Louis Tomlinson's scenic drive, and Niall Horan's game night. In the choose your own adventure vid, you get to see date nights with each of the guys. All five members are credited with writing “Summer Love” – a surprisingly rare instance across their discography – and it feels fitting that one of their most truly collaborative efforts should turn out to be their best.Deciding which British boy band member you should date probably keeps you up at night, but don't worry - One Direction's "Night Changes" video will tell you your perfect match, once and for all. The band’s most favoured themes – nostalgia, bittersweet memories, young love, friendship – are all present and correct. It doesn’t really fit at the end of the album on its own, it’s an impressive and rather moving pop ballad with some of the band’s best vocal work, including those superb harmonies on the chorus.
Perhaps not the most obvious choice for number one, this enormously underrated track from Take Me Home has a title that belies its disarmingly mature approach, from the lyrics to the romantic production filled with sweeping violins and tender guitars. Meanwhile that driving, synth-pop backing track is a dead ringer for “Style” – Swift’s song widely believed to have been written about Styles himself (if the title wasn’t enough of a clue). He references knights in shining armour and a person “looking for someone to write your breakup songs about”.
Harry Styles gets top marks for sheer audacity with this blatant riff on a classic song by his ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift. Malik’s vocal performance here is particularly impressive, but each member gives the track their all.
Yet after five virtually non-stop years, it was clear that even these energetic young lads were beginning to run out of steam.Ī defiant song that has 1D paying proper tribute to all the great boybands who came before them. They won more than 200 awards, including seven Brits, four MTV Music Awards, seven AMAs and six Billboard Music Awards. They have sold 200 million records worldwide, and as recently as 2019, achieved 3.6 billion streams across Spotify, YouTube and other platforms. Over the course of five studio albums, “the boys” made music history on multiple occasions, smashing industry records previously set by The Beatles and achieving that rarest of feats: breaking America.
While their potential for success was noted by many at the time, no one could have predicted the phenomenon they would become. After initially auditioning as solo artists, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne became One Direction. Ten years ago, five aspiring singers were grouped together by Simon Cowell to compete as a boyband on the then-popular reality show, The X-Factor.