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harry at the hslot18 basel show when he introduced medicine for the first time:

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“There was a lot of loneliness. On the days that you have off, there’s not actually anybody around to hang out with that often, and also you don’t really want to go outside. I developed like a really bad case of like agoraphobia, which you know was not nice. I think we all suffered from that quite a lot. [I: So your life kind of shrinks as it’s expanding] Yeah and you can do anything you want, you can buy anything you want, you can do anything, but you don’t really know what it is you wanna do, and you haven’t really got many people to do it with.”

— Liam on what his mental health was like in 1D for Killing It Podcast

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sometimes it hits me just how much one direction did in only five years. they fit four tours and did 326 shows in just five years. to compare, taylor swift has done 399 shows in almost twice that time, excluding the reputation tour. beyoncé has done 442 shows as a solo artist since the dangerously in love tour in 2003. just let those numbers sink in.

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this isnt meant to be a cutesy like “oh :’) look at how much they accomplished :’)” thing. this is just me being absolutely baffled by how extremely overworked these boys were. im proud of everything they’ve done but these numbers are scary.

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since i woke up missing them yet again, just wanna add that they released 5 studio albums in as many years. taylor swift and beyoncé each put out 6 studio albums in twice the time that one direction did (for beyoncé it’s longer). that’s just not normal, you dont churn out albums while you’re in the middle of touring the last one. not to mention, their teams did such a crappy job of promo after the third one and their sales weren’t half of what they could have been if they hadn’t essentially been burned out. no fucking wonder they all began to loathe it and had to stop, catch me being bitter about it until the day i die

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oh and ONE MORE THING for everyone who’s saying that they’re done as a band because they hated it at the end. they didnt hate the band, they hated the nonstop work and no room to breathe and no sense of autonomy that came with the band. there are bands that have been around for decades and they haven’t been active constantly. it’s okay to take breaks occasionally so they don’t burn themselves out completely and the boys needed a break from one direction, not from music. they’ll come back one day and whenever that happens, it’ll be on their terms and it’ll be explosive and i personally just cant wait tbh

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Liam Payne about any special plans for the 10th anniversary of One Direction

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shit, maybe I miss you

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“[I: So how many times did you end up dunking it?] Not many! He was so good. That guy was so good. And luckily my timing was good, you know for cuing the crane and the speed of the boom and the speed of the drop and the way the water interacted with the room at certain speeds, I rehearsed it a few times with nobody in the room. I went okay I got this. So we wanted to hit certain parts of the song at certain depths, but you didn’t really know where that depth was gonna be because people float. So I’m sort of eyeballing and like with my finger telling the guy with the crane to speed up, who was you know 50 yards away in his crane. So um, but it worked. There’s one cue where he sings and we’re above and the tank just, he disappears under the water and the water just goes into his mouth and he keeps singing the song even though he’s full of water, at a key moment, and we nailed it on the first take, it wasn’t really, it was nothing more than luck.”

— Assistant Director Michael Dignum on working with Harry for the Falling music video