English With One Direction: July 2017

Friday 21 July 2017

Louis' promo

Louis arrives at BBC Radio, 21st July

Nick: They keep saying: don’t ask personal questions. Louis: They’re great aren’t they?

Louis on "Back To You":

Louis comparing fans promo work to his teams': “They’re loads better than them lot out there.”

Louis' reaction to Niall's comments on him:

Nick: Did you see or hear what Niall said about you on the radio in Australia?
Louis: Yes, I did.

[Niall “I thought it was a very honest interview. I thought he was brilliant in it. But he knows that none of us every thought that, or think that. He’s an unbelievable guy, a great singer and someone that if…if…y'know, I’d say that we would have lost the plot along the way if we hadn’t had Louis. He was a very very very, extremely vital member of One Direction.”]

Louis on his tour plans:

“If I was speculating, I’d say the second half of next year.”

His plans for the album: “Ideally it’s coming at the end of this year, but I don’t want to put myself under too many time constraints and end up in a position where I have to put two fillers on it. I’d say about 50 [songs written for the album]. It’s a lot of work.”

Louis on the favourite song on his album:

Louis for Heat:

Louis about Harry in Dunkirk:“I haven’t seen it yet, no. I’m very very excited for him, very proud of him. I mean it’s… amazing to see. I think we all knew he liked that kind of thing, but yeah i suppose it wasn’t that much of a surprise to us. And look, I hear he’s great, it obviously makes sense.”

Louis for BBC:

“Like I said to my best mate, Oli, I want there to be songs on the album that I could play to your mum, and she could listen to it and take something away from it. Maybe she doesn’t love the song, but lyrically she’ll understand something about me. This is something that - for me, anyway - it doesn’t feel like we have enough of. A lot of artists use words because they sound nice, or because it works for the science of the song. Again, that’s why bands like Arctic Monkeys are so great. They don’t work on any script or any maths or science. They just say what they feel. If it doesn’t rhyme, it doesn’t matter. If it sounds awkward, it doesn’t matter. I think, especially with being lucky enough to have a big fanbase, I want to say to them, “Look, lyrics actually matter, and I want to show you why”.

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“I’m not very good at fashion but there were a few TV opportunities. But unless you are someone like Harry - who is immensely talented in so many different areas - I think it’s really important to stay in your lane and do what you do well. Having said that, the idea of acting sounds quite exciting to me. The idea of playing the ultimate rough chavvy - it’s like me being everyone I always wanted to be in Doncaster! But I’d rather get the music 100% right, rather than 90% right while trying to dip my toe in something else.”

And on Harry again: “I might wake up in the morning with me bowl of cornflakes and look on twitter and see … Harry stood next to Tom Hardy on the red carpet, I mean, it’s just unbelievable … we’re all just so proud of each other.”

Thursday 20 July 2017

"Back to You" Teaser

Harry on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Harry Styles Makes a Wish to Host The Tonight Show:

Wednesday 19 July 2017

Harry & Fionn on the Today Show

Bonus:

Louis for Noisey Music

Every sentence he speaks feels considered, and he sits with such casual ease in front of a camera that he barely needs any direction from the photographer at all. He already instinctively knows what angle to turn his face so that the light reflects off his jaw, and he can change into a fresh outfit in the time it takes to adjust a camera lens. He never complains, he just seems to do it without thinking. It’s quite remarkable to witness.

“During the last year of One Direction, in particular, I definitely went a little bit… west,“ he tells me now, raising one eyebrow before taking a sip of coffee and lighting another menthol. “I kind of realised we were going on this hiatus and I thought ‘I’ve been very sensible for this whole time’ and that’s not really me, so for a year or so we definitely had a good ‘party stint’ and I got it out my system, in a way. There were definitely those days when it felt as if touring was relentless, and if you want to tackle it from a party point of view it can be really fun, but it does make the whole thing even more draining. It’s just such a difficult feeling to come off stage and have this amazing buzz and then be like…'so what now?’ You can’t just sit on the tour bus and chill.”

“But I think it was obvious to everyone that we were always five best mates on the road; it was real nice. And as time went on, we all began to understand each other. There are often misconceptions, but we’re all such good mates. If you look at the X Factor final, when I performed my song with Steve [Aoki], all the boys came to support me, and I didn’t know until a couple of hours beforehand. It wasn’t one of those stupid fucking celebrity things where it’s like, ‘lets all get in a picture and put it on Instagram and show everyone that we’re best mates’ – we didn’t even put it online. There are always those little things that people don’t hear about.”

“You think it sounds good? And not predictable?” Louis asks, leaning forward, putting me on the spot. I tell him that it’s super catchy, that I’d probably listen to it out of choice and not just because I have to ahead of an interview. “Good, good,” he leans back, seeming satisfied with my answer, “because it’s so melodically different to what I was used to, I wasn’t 100 percent sure on the song initially. But after playing it like three times, I became really excited about it. I think it’s really cool.”

“In ten years’ time, the most important thing for me is that I’ll deliver a good album people connect with.

After that — who knows?’ he mused. ‘I’ll set a new target. As soon as you feel comfortable, it’s a dangerous place to be in. That keeps my drive up, keeps me going.”

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