![]() The catchy Diana, meanwhile, is a naked rewrite of at least three songs of some vintage, not least Don't Stand So Close to Me. Most Directioners will already have heard the Mumfords-inspired Story of My Life, in which some sort of romantic contretemps finds the boys in a darkroom in the video, developing photographs (a mysterious practice that may have to be explained to their fanbase). Here, this new taste for Def Leppard comes tempered with some even more grown-up fare: a Mumfords nod, a Police tribute and a flaccid one co-written by Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody (Something Great). Lady Gaga struggled a bit to carry off such a major pop-to-rock volte-face on Born This Way, but one of the theories about why Katy Perry is doing so well has something to do with her propensity for guitars. Its dynamics seem to be targeting some notional American heartland at least 30 years older than 1D's fanbase. And yet that doesn't quite prepare you for the extended soft-rock passages, the Joan Jett-ish thrust of Zayn Malik's Does He Know? or the sheer Van Halen-like bombast of the title track, one of two touring-band anthems ("Way too many people in the Addison Lee!"). The band forecast that Midnight Memories would be "rockier" than their previous efforts, which have largely cleaved fairly close to the bright'n'breezy Swedish school of pop-plus-doe-eyed balladry. (And what does Louis Tomlinson actually mean when, on Happily, he asks his ex whether her new boyfriend "feels his traces" in her hair?)Īdmitting the existence of sex is not the only overt sign of looming maturity on One Direction's third album in three heady years, one that looks certain to cement them as a global phenomenon. Poodle-rock guitars complete the picture of band slipping their hands out of yours and into their trouser pockets. "I wanna see the way you move for me, baby," it goes, as goaty a lyric as these nice boys have ever essayed. On Little Black Dress, One Direction turn from excellent boyfriend material – caring, devoted, well turned out, easily hurt – to something more akin to one-night-standees. In Germany the song reached number 91, number 7 in Italy, number 5 in Netherlands and reached number 4 in Spain.Īrtist’s age on Release Date: One Direction band was active for 4 years when they released this song.Ĭover Versions: The Vamps – Chloe Adams – Richie Takao – Crystal – Emma McGann – Jumblekye – SamRick – other Youtubers covered this song.Then there is the small matter of the vanilla leering, which takes place on the main album. Around the world ‘Midnight Memories’ reached number 45 in Australia, number 4 in Belgium, peaked at number 2 in Denmark and reached number 3 in Ireland. Songwriter/s: Julian Bunetta 0 Jamie Scott – John Ryan – Louis Tomlinson – Liam PayneĬhart Rankings: In the US, the song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the UK it reached number 39 on the Official Charts Company. I think what’s more reminiscent of the Leppard thing is the production, the sound, the vocals, the reverb and the way it’s assembled” Or, it’s also just when you’re young and that’s when you kind of have all your experiences.” In 2013 allegations that Def Leppard had asked their lawyers to look into the similarities between ‘Midnight Memories’ and ‘Pour Some Sugar on Me’ In an interview with Billboard Magazine, guitarists Phill Collen and Vivian Campbell that they are not pursuing any legal action against the boy band, Campbell said: “The chords are one-four-five. We have so many memories of just being in the studio or being after a show or being in the back of the bus or going to one of the guys’ places and hanging and writing. ![]() It was between midnight and 5 in the morning. And midnight memories are where most of the memories of this record were made. In an interview with MTV News, co-writer Julian Bunetta explained that this song personifies the five guys’ lifestyle, he said: “It’s the title of the album and it just happens to fall in line with Up All Night, Take Me Home. In an interview with Seacrest during a pre-release Q&A, Liam said that ‘Midnight Memories is the most significant part of album, he said: “This was the first song we wrote on the new album and it set us on course of what writing the rest of this album was going to be. Now the boy band are at an age that they know what fun is to them, and “Midnight Memories” is clearly having fun and state that people can be critical of them, but just letting it roll off their backs so they could have so much fun. ![]() This happy song is about partying, getting crazy, and hooking up.
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