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18,Ziam and Larry are both my otps, A bit more attention to Ziam cause it's hella underrated, They are real and will always be real.

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Simon Cowell/ The Industry

Hi there, a lot of people know the struggle when antis ask about closeting. We give then proof, but it is never enough. This masterpost is made to show people that closeting exists and that pr relationships exist too. You will also see interviews of Simon Cowell himself and other things that has been happened in the music industry for ages. Have a good and instructive time! (This post is not meant for the One Direction fandom only, various artists are being talked about and causes that might include your idol too. )

1. How to dispel gay rumors?

"The most effective way would be for me to create a longterm PR relationship."

This is Simon's former publicist Max who passed away in prison in 2017. This documentary was published in 2002. Simon is the creator of The X Factor. He created One Direction and Fifth Harmony. They all had to (and still have to) follow the rules of these guys and their teams. Max worked for Simon and his artists until at least 2012. (He died in prison 2017.) Guess when all the fake girlfriend stuff started? End 2011/ begin 2012. He basically admit to do what Larries have been saying the whole time.

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2. Hiding in the music industry.

“The machine of the hiding is insane and inhumane. It's gonna keep going until somebody who has something to lose stands up and says 'I am gay', somebody big." Please watch the whole video.

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3. How does a label work? Abusive.

"I have NEVER heard of a label who does not sc**w an artist."

"We, the label, don't feel like pushing your records anymore, or we don't feel you're gonna sell, we're not gonna let you go. We'll just kind of put you on the shelf over here and we won't really let you work, but we're not gonna let you leave either."

Please watch the whole video!

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4a. Not being able to escape a contract (Rebecca Ferguson).

Rebecca Ferguson was a contestant around thr same time as One Direction were. She signed a contracts with Syco Music and Epic Records. 1D has the same label. After a while she signed to Colombia Records. Guess with whom 1D was/is signed? Yes.

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4 b. 1 Jojo's story.

"Many different lawyers told me that I would never be able to get out of this contract. That I should find a different career." JoJo spent nearly a decade fighting her record label and won. She couldn't release music anymore because she didn't "legally own her own voice".

4 b. 2 She also went on a hiatus.

Yes, a hiatus for 10 years. Does this sound familiar? 1D? No? Yes. Jojo needed to gain back the right for her OWN voice. She went on a 10 year hiatus, and after her lawyer found a loophole she could leave her label and sign to a new one. She could not sing any songs, because her label had her under their control.

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5. Change of image.

This boy talks about how the label can adapt, change and alter your image. You have no say in this. You can not decide who you want to be as a person. The label does that. Sounds familiar? *cough* cough* Louis, Zayn, Niall, Liam and Harry.

6a. Pr relationships.

As you have read, the label closets the gay person and gives them a fake girlfriend to parade around with. This does not only happen to gay people or people who are married/dating someone from the same gender. This also happens to gain publicity. Here are a few videos about celebs talking about it.

This is from a person who worked in the industry for several years. Her name is @aismadeintheam from twitter.

This is how you promote a pr relationship... this is written by the biggedy secret keepers of Hollywood. Some were editors from In Touch and others were specialized in crisis managment.

B. Austin Mahone about PR relationships: "I think everybody is been doing that for years."

C. Chely Wright and her heterosexual image.

She is the same blond woman in the 2nd video. The guy says "She went to fairly extensive length to paint the image to me that she was man crazy." At 29:57.

7. Being private.

Some of you tend to think it is impossible to hidr everything from the media. That is not true, love. Here gou have Gigi Hadid talking about it. People can hide whole relationships, Larry and Ziam, for example. Now you must think "if she can hide so much, why did Gigis racist video come out?" That has to so with her becoming popular by the views. Bad publicity is still publicity.

"If we're trying to hide it, we just hide it. There's so many ways people can just do shit without any of you finding out." Gigi told the world that it's possible to hide a relationship from fans / paparazzi. At 4:50

8. Homophobia

This part is going to bbe about homophobia and people who confirmed the label abused them. I know I have talked about it in the previous parts, but these are also important, my loves.

A. Lance Bass

"Bottom line is what the record labels look at. They just wanna make money. And if this artist isn't going to pull in this many fans because they are gay, they are not gonna support him this much. And I see that with so many people." Lance Bass.

"It was very torturous because I didn't want people to find out who I truly was. I thought especially in the 90s that if anyone knew I was gay that my life would be over. People would hate me, N’Sync would be over. It was a lot of pressure. You become very lonely."

Link: https://youtu.be/KNRlLQR3Pj4

B. Jonathan Knight

"If you let the world know you are gay you are gonna ruin your career, your managers' career, your label is gonna lose money on record sales. There was so much on my shoulders as kid." Jonathan Knigh.

C. Markus Feehily

Mark Feehily reveals he went into therapy to deal with fear of coming out. "I suppose I became paranoid that press were gonna be after it, I was really scared so I thought the only thing to do here was just to get in the closet, lock the door and swallow the key."

D. Ellen Page

"I felt uninspired and sad. I felt like it was absolutely effecting my work. How are you gonna feel creatively motivated when you feel like you're just living in a way that is not true. A part of me also felt guilty."

Link: https://youtu.be/xG6HBdTtS4s

9. Pr Extreme; Fake Wedding

A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatised sexual orientation of one or both partners. The term dates from the early 20th century and is used almost exclusively to characterize certain marriages of public celebrities in the first half of the 20th century, primarily before World War II, when public attitudes made it impossible for a person acknowledging homosexuality to pursue a public career, notably in the Hollywood film industry.

During the early days of Hollywood, a gay actor or actress had to keep their sexual preferences hidden for fear of ruining their careers. To give the appearance of being straight—and often at the insistence of their agents or studio—homosexual entertainers would sometimes marry a person of the opposite sex in what was known as a ‘lavender marriage.’ 

Link: https://historydaily.org/famous-hollywood-lavender-marriages

Gay stars have been masking their sexuality under the cover of heterosexual relationships since the first days of film. "Lavender marriages," as they were called, began as a response to big studios including "moral clauses" in their stars' contracts. Gay stars picked wives, often actresses and celebrities themselves, in order to hide their sexualities and keep fans lusting after them onscreen.

Link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgm873/why-famous-women-marry-gay-men-david-gest-liza-minelli

These marriages were arranged by Hollywood studios between one or more gay, lesbian or bisexual people in order to hide their sexual orientation from the public. They date back to the early 20th century and carried on past the gay liberation movement of the 1960s.

b. Faking a child

Faking a child is impossible according to some people. Well....it is not, love. Please read this carefully.

Celebs who FAKE pregnancies: Hollywood fertility doctor lifts the lid

Jodie Marsh's new documentary uncovers a new way of having a baby, where healthy women are handpicking surrogates so they can keep their fig

Link: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/celebrities-who-fake-pregnancies-hollywood-6781083

Shocked Jodie was in disbelief as she asked: “So some have used a surrogate then stuffed a pillow up their jumper?”

Dr Sahakian confirmed it as he said: “We are talking about well-known women.

“It would be taboo for them to admit they used a social surrogate. I have had a couple of patients who pretended they were pregnant, yes.”

This goes further, because Sean Combes was not the father of his supposed baby. The woman accused him of being the father. After seeing all of these things, including Gigi Hadid saying that celebrities can do ehatever they want, how is it possible that Sean Combes could not do this privately? How? This is again a tactic to get people to read an article. All of it is fake.

I would like to add Louis Tomlinsons situation in here, but it would not be right. Briana Jungwirth was never even pregnant and we caught her stealing pictures of pregnant women. She also posted 7/8 months pregnancy throwback pictures of herself with a flat stomach. Plus, we all know the truth is going to come out. It will be another attention seeking episode just like Sean Combes'.

10. Contracts are tough.

From the previous parts you can see that people are not allowed to be who they are. Sometimes they are afraid to come out and sometimes they do want to come out but they can not. Here is a very brave message from Lauren.

"Read your contracts. Because of all the contracts I've signed, I can't say a word."

Here is a link of Lauren saying thing about her label and shading them. https://youtu.be/h7GUZbNmV2s

Lauren was a member from 5H. 1D was signed to the same label. Which means they can also not speak about stuff like that. If Louis, Liam, Harry, Zayn and Niall can not tell you that they are gay etc. openly it is NOT because they do not want to come out. They judt can not say it. If they will you know what the label will do. They will shut them up forever, loves. It takes a very brave lion heart to pick up or to wear the sign of the LGBTQ+ community and to show who you are. Louis, Harry and the rest of the boys did that while they are going through hell. Never think they want this, they do not.

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This is it, my dear. This post has got all the proof you need in order to understand what is happening. I hope you have learnt a lot from this, if anything is wrong please just tell me. I will help you. If any of you have further questions, I will gladly answer them, my dears.

Here are a few things I hope you have learnt:

1. Closeting still exists.

2. The label changes the image of a person.

3. Escaping a contract is very difficult.

4. You are stuck if the label does not want you. They own you and you have to wait for years to get your voice back. (That is why 1D is on hiatus)

5. You have to do everything the label says.

6. The Industry is VERY homophobic.

7. Privacy exists in Hollywood. Everything you see is for public purposes.

8. Faking pregnancies and weddings is a normal thing to do.

9. When you are gay or in a gay relationshop, your label puts you in a longterm relationship.

10. Bearding exists.

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This is a very sad post. If you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community, always remember that you should NEVER be afraid to hold the hand of the person you are in love with. You are loved, and perhaps you do not know it, but we stand behind you. Always. Gay is okay and so is the whole LGBTQ+ community. You are the color in this dark, empty world. Never forget that, loves.

Credits to owners of the videos and also @totallylost4you on twitter.

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(Read from bottom to top. This guy is a photographer and studies media PR and marketing.)

Modest! Failgement strikes agaIN

[thingsicanchangethingsicant-dea]

This will be VERY long.

So my friend writes a lot of management agreements (not specifically to the entertainment industry) and said there are some common clauses that will be in them all.

For the sake of discussion on some points, I may refer to a band’s management team as the Owner, and the band as the Property they’re “investing in.”  The reason I say that as opposed to saying managing at some points, is because it’s not like the band would have written the contract to have the other party manage them.  Rather, the management company would have written it and the band agreed to put their careers basically under the management team’s investment.  Remember, the management company expends a lot of time, energy and money to get the band built up so it truly was an investment where they incurred cost until it became profitable.

Okay so basic clauses:

1)  Indemnification - Basically a release of liability should certain things happen.  Let’s say a member of the band/property gets in an accident.  There would be some sort of clause precluding the Owner from being a party to any lawsuit from the other party - i.e. the band/property own responsibility for their own personal actions.  

2)  Management Fee - This could be a percentage, a flat fee, a minimum, or even an increasing percentage each year of the contract.   It’s paid from the property to the manager and/or vice versa depending on the contract terms. 

3)  Outline of responsibilities of both parties - What each must perform for the other.  Think of it as “terms of service.”

4)  Contract term - the initial length both parties agree to abide by all terms of the contract.  There will also be an outline of what happens at the end- i.e. the contract goes “month to month” unless a new contract is negotiated or termination by either party is given.

5)  Right of termination - both parties have the right to terminate the agreement should either party “breach” the terms outlined or do something unlawful.  Ferguson most likely tried to play this angle by saying that what she viewed as “mistreatment” violated the “terms of service” of her contract.  Breach can be extremely hard to prove, and most of these cases end up in court .  Cases built around some sort of “discrimination” tend to be viewed more sympathetically and parties do not want the case to ever see the light of day and will tend to try to settle behind closed doors.  i.e. if Ferguson could have proved that her management was not living up to the terms based on some sort of discrimination towards her over another act.

Most contracts, unfairly as it will seem, will give the following additional termination rights:

- During the original term, the “Owner” can terminate the agreement with a specific period of “notice given” and a “termination” fee paid to the property.  

- During the original term, both parties could mutually agree to end the contract without penalty to either (this would require a separate termination agreement with all parties signing it)

- After the original term, either party can terminate the contract with a specific period of “notice given” and no fee is incurred or owed

You’ll note there isn’t even an option for the property to terminate the contract during the original term- not even for a penalty.  Some contracts may give that right, but it would be with a very high penalty listed, to make it almost guaranteed the property wouldn’t choose that option.  It sucks, but that is how it is.  By not specifying a penalty amount, the Owner can basically go to court and sue for unspecified damages.  In Ferguson’s case, we don’t know if the agreement outlined a 20% contract break fee, or if that is just what the lawsuit was filed for.

Okay, so here’s the interesting thing.  The ‘original term’ is really a valuable part of the contract for many reasons- even to the Owner.  We focus a lot on how the band is tied up for 5 years, but so is the Owner.  Think about it this way.  A team signs a band for 5 years.  They spent a million dollars in the first year promoting then, releasing an album, etc and net only 500k back.  They’ve lost 500k and determine it’s not worthwhile to continue.  They can’t just walk away, either.  The contract makes them pay that “termination fee” to the band because basically they are “opting out” and causing “harm” to the other party because they have wasted a year of their time, etc.. have to start over.  We have no idea what that termination fee would be in a contract like this, but there likely one of some sort.  So yes, the Owner is taking a chance that things will work out- if not they are the ones losing a lot of money.

That being said, many contracts are written with more “annual” terms. However if you go into that “annual” range with the Original Period then you open the door for the band/property to terminate earlier too (as the original period where they are locked out from terminating the agreement is shortened).

So none of this proves anything about what is going on with the boys, but I found it interesting to note just in terms of what we see all the time.  If there’s truly a five year contract, realize the first few years were likely more costly to Modest, and now they’re reaping the benefits.  1D got the benefit the first few years, and now is paying.  If it was a shorter contract, they could be on some sort of month to month term or an annual renewal.  Why would they do it?  Well, as people have said.  We don’t know how expensive other options are.  We don’t know if perhaps a change isn’t worth it during the midst of a World Tour.  Perhaps certain points were renegotiated that everyone thought was more tolerable.  Or perhaps a new agreement is still being worked out somewhere else.  We simply don’t know.   Should we be seeing a renewal period, it would seem likely that more 1D friendly terms were written, opening up Modest to more chances of a “breach.”  However, given events of recent weeks, Modest certainly doesn’t seem to be scared of pushing their limits so either a renewal situation is out the door, they know the time will end soon and just are convinced no one will sue them anyway (as everyone will just want to be done with it), or Modest feels they’re just simply untouchable.

On to another point - There has been a lot of discussion recently over how Modest could claim “image rights” on Louis.  That would fall under the terms of service clause- where Louis has basically given rights to his image to Modest during this time. 

Now here’s the thing- Modest is going to argue that it’s not just Louis paying money to the Rovers to buy them.  Louis can use his money to buy what he wants, right?  Well, not exactly.  Louis can go buy a lamp and the lamp isn’t going to be able to turn around and say “hey, Louis Tomlinson owns me, anybody want to come and turn me on?  It’s only $5 a switch.”  That was a terrible example, but you get the point.  

The Rovers are a “living” entity.  They absolutely can, and will likely, gain additional money and funds because they are owned by THE Louis Tomlinson.  So Modest can step in and claim the Rovers have a choice- either give them a cut of the profits (again I would think this is limited to the time they’re under contract to perform management services) OR the Rovers cannot broadcast or even comment on the fact that Louis owns them.  That’s pretty impossible to do given the news is everywhere, so yep- they can pretty much sit and cause an issue as much as they want.  It’s not fair, but it’s likely allowed under their contract and they’re playing it for all it’s worth.  The Rovers can simply prohibit Louis from buying a portion, or they can “play” with Modest and give a piece of the pie.

So does Louis have anything he can do?  Well, he could attempt to argue that Modest hasn’t been performing their duties for 1D for some time, therefore claiming they’ve “breached” their terms of service and therefore he shouldn’t have to fulfill his.  This would be extremely hard to prove given the success of 1D and how much money they have, and will continue, to make.  

He could try to argue that this purchase is outside of the scope of his terms of service, but again- unless there was very specific language built in about what they could or couldn’t do, it’d be very hard to prove.

But could he prove “discrimination?”  Let’s think about this.  If he can prove that Modest has allowed any of the other boys, or any other act of theirs, to engage in a similar endeavor without precluding it from happening over “image rights” he would have a strong case.  Now, I’m not sure if we even know what that would or could be because we don’t know all the side ventures of everyone.

But for example- let’s say another member of the band had started their own “trust” to purchase a lot of real estate.  And yes, they intended to eventually flip those homes and resell them, and guess what- the fact that they once “owned” the home would raise the asking price.  Would management get a cut of that?  Would management even have thought far enough ahead to realize that could happen?  Who knows.  They’d probably say it’s not the same “scale” as the other but- theoretically a court might not see a difference in that it’s two people still spending personal cash in “investment” type manners.  And if they didn’t preclude one from doing it, they can’t stop the other.

This is why you need high powered attorneys.

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Perfect! A*!

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But Zayn’s face when Liam was talking about his pants being stolen

Look at him

Talking about Liam’s pubes showing

After they show the pubes picture

Zayn

- what are you doing here

Wh-

Okay Zayn

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Liam talking about the girl wearing his pants -

Bit jealous?

But then Liam makes a joke about the pants and -

here we have Zayn in goo form

Science is amazing

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[thrustwithziam]

Are we going to ignore this? Zayn and Liam are togther at what looks to be a train station without any of the other boys..

When was this taken?

[thrustwithziam]

Liam's Hate T-Shirt

Inthis post I’m going to outline one piece of evidence that proves Ziam’s real every day for the next week.

I’ll list the discussions below:

Liam’s hate T-Shirt - 7/1/13

Deleted videos - 8/1/13

Ziam boners - 9/1/13

Award ceremonies - 10/1/13

Gay Clubs - 11/1/13

Patherine (may take longer) - 12/1/13

Danielle’s discussion about Zayn - 13/1/13

Today I will be discussing the relation that Liam’s item of clothing part takes in Ziam.

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[chaoticfeels]

So this is the video that was deleted after an anonymous person pointed out something they thought was fishy going on.

It starts at 0:21 where Liam is kind of Leaning into Zayn a bit. He looks to Louis and then looks past Louis with an annoyed look as if someone is trying to get his attention and even Louis makes a face at 0:27. You can hear Liam’s big sigh of annoyance.

So the anon had said that basically they thought that maybe management seen Liam leaning a little bit too close to Zayn and made him move. Tbh that’s what it look like and we can never be sure. And the boys well at least Liam and Louis look pretty annoyed.

But according to another anon moments after the video was published by Cheshire it was deleted. And when you go back to the video here it is surely gone.

So if it wasn’t sketchy before it definitely is now. 

And I leave you all with this

Ziam is real bye.

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I think I should add that this isn’t the only video that has been deleted that had a lot of Ziam. Modest! is definitely out to cover up something.

[stoponedirectionsmanagement]

Thank you very much for having us in a post! :D

[stoponedirectionsmanagement]

Submitted by Anonymous:

Harry instagrammed this sign (x) and I just looked on the girl’s Twitter who made the sign and there’s one heart that’s blacked out and it said “gay” (x) and I’M LAUGHING

LOL! xD Thank you for telling us, Anon! xx

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This deserves a post all its own

Back when the Zayn cheating scandal appeared in magazines, there were those two mysterious pictures of Zayn, as I’m sure you know. I don’t think I even need to tell you how much that hurt Zayn. It’s obvious from the way that he acted afterword, and the fact that he literally hurt himself over it:

(x)

A lot of people believe that this story is fake, and was orchestrated by Modest. So then, where did those pictures come from? And who took them?

Here are the pics (which as you recall, were claimed to be taken by the girl in the article) in case you need a reminder:

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Why I believe there is something special about Ziam

okay so i see heaps of posts on larry and i have so many ziam feelings i needa let out and thought i’d make one~~ cause the more about them, the more people will see how amazing they are. 

this post will probably end up being about zayn and his obvious love for liam. i actually wanna kms at how much zayn is attracted to liam and liam is so dumb so he sits there with this face like HUH zayn just said something really sexual towards me but i think its normal right? RIGHT ;L  

before we start, i have very bad grammar, so i do apologize

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Oh Ziam

Oh Ziam.  I’ve heard many say that Ziam is lower key than Larry.  It seemed like a reasonable thing to say at first, but I’ve come to see after finding more and more gifs and pictures of them that they’re just as absurdly obvious as Larry.

I’ve put together some gifs and pics from my saved folder that make me giddy to the point of being angry because seriously? Seriously guys?  I just came out to look at some cute gifs and I feel attacked.

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[monerekho]

Remember when liam got the "we are the quiet ones" tattoo and we all knew it was about zayn but then you could see how zayn signs his 'Z' in his signature in the 'th' of the 'the' which means liam actually got his boys initial tattooed 😢

do i remember???? HOW COULD I FORGET????? 

first you have baby zayn and liam, on that couch, during that set of germany interviews right after that fateful day in vegas 2012, when everything changed for them.

which brings us to liam getting this tattoo

and you’ll notice the font for ‘th’ is a bit extra, until you remember zayn’s signature at that time 

which chris, paynegerouslyinlove, had outlined here 

and then you proceed to curl into a little ball and cry bc liam was so damn extra, he went as far as getting zayn’s intial, in zayn’s own handwriting, tattooed onto his body, on a tattoo already referring to zayn. cry with me now. 

[yziam]

Liam casually lying on his boyfriend’s laps during the interview and both of them constantly staring at each other. (x)

[yziam]

And as you close your eyes tonight I pray that you will see the light….cause I can love you more than this. (x)

Zayn singing to Liam and carassing his cheeks.

[onedirectioner28]

At 0:22, when the question “Who is the best looking” is asked. You can see towards the end (around 0:26) that Liam looks at Zayn and he reaches to grab Zayn’s arm and lift it !!! But the stupid direction of this interview decided to cut that part out -_-

[onedirectioner28]

At 0:22, when the question “Who is the best looking” is asked. You can see towards the end (around 0:26) that Liam looks at Zayn and he reaches to grab Zayn’s arm and lift it !!! But the stupid direction of this interview decided to cut that part out -_-

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HE’S WEARING THE SHIRT