OT4 rant - WTF was this concert?! I watched the video you reblogged of them screwing up You & I. How many times have they sung it? Unprofessional. Having water fights, soaking each other and playing wheel barrow like children doesn't excise not knowing their own songs. I'm stunned by what I'm seeing. And the Larries suddenly praising Liam like he just arrived on planet Earth for the first time - no. Just no. Fans may love funny 1D moments but it's should be a music concert, not a comedy show.
I lean toward thinking the shenanigans with the songs were intentional, for whatever reason. But they always do goofy stuff like wheelbarrows, handstands and pyramids. That’s cute. It’s fine.
We’ll see if the media picks up on it. This is from a Norwegian website that reviewed tonight’s concert.
It has been claimed, in competing media outlets, there are 30,000 people here tonight. It cannot possibly be. If the capacity is 31,000, as has been stated, we can perhaps say 23-25 000?
The audience seems to be able to live without the missed Zayn Malik, One Direction’s dark and mysterious “bad boy” who left them in March - probably to grapple with a shot at a solo career.
Another song that drowns in an unfocused performance.
About “Stockholm Syndrome”:
Louis Tomlinson is just mumbling.
Group members continue to struggle with a violent fear of physical contact, they are constantly moving away from each other, which makes it difficult to focus on something or someone.
Singing separately, and once again it is the squeaky Tomlinson coming out worst of it. The always smiling Horan exhibits certain qualities - he can certainly have a future as a troubadour in British nurseries. Payne and Styles are charismatic.
Tomlinson crumbles completely during his brief verse, but will be forgiven again.
About “Through the Dark”:
Payne has a somewhat nerve-racking tendency to break out in laughter every time he sings the first verse alone, and this is more Mumford & Sons- ish average. Tomlinson’s vocals fail once again - the boy cannot sing, you know. But he is good to pour water over the head of Payne. Which he does.
About “Story of My Life”:
…but the audience sings it more fervently than the four onstage. The above showing signs of wear now.
The pause before the first encore is long. Some begin to walk toward the exits.
Well that was brutal. There were some kinda nice things in there if you read the whole article, but the overall tone was extremely underwhelmed.
As for Liam, I do like it when people appreciate him in general. And I love that he shouted out the “always in my heart” sign knowing that his boys couldn’t. But this fandom is fickle. At this point I don’t think their appreciation is terribly sincere. It should be sincere because Liam is a gem and he’s a trooper because he’s going through it rn. Liam is fantastic.