Liam is back and in excellent form! I have missed chatty Liam, he is such a chill pleasure to virtually hang out with. He went live to answer questions about his performance and joke around. He trolled fans in his response to a question about collabs- āIād love to do one with hmm⦠Niall⦠and Zayn⦠and Harry and Louis,ā he teased, and joked that ātheyāre here! Behind this curtain! Haha no⦠we could have put them in virtually! Probably would have gotten cease and desist letters from their managersā¦ā and considered who would send the first letter. āZayn,ā he giggled, but then added that in fact his next upcoming collab is āwith myself, tonight!ā (hmm sounds dirty when you put it like THAT Liam!) And about the performance? Liam agreed that itās very confusing but said heād make things easier on us by naming virtual Liam; heās Kelvin. He said he (Liam not Kelvin) has ābeen away for a while, been having a bit of timeā and then immediately added that in fact heās been rehearsing and working on this performance a lot but that āitās the only thing Iāve been doing.ā He said IDK when is LP2 coming- āwhen I can get to LA and workā (because he doesnāt like writing on zoom), that heās currently working on a song for a film but that he canāt tell us anything about it but that itās with some old friends heās known since he was 17, they were the first people 1D worked with, that heād consider making a visual album, āmaybe a cartoon or something⦠maybe even an NFT, who knows!ā A man in touch with what the fans want, always (well except for the NFT thing), he fulfilled my wish and demonstrated making faces to program Kelvin, and he shared a picture of his mo-cap feet like SEE they look like TINY SNAKES right? And then asked people to trend tinysnakes and the fans dutifully obliged. Look out you guys, itās a tiny snake habitat!
And the performances? Well first there was the avatar-only one and I finally understand why he kept saying heād be anywhere you wanted him in your house, sorry- I think other people got it all along and I just⦠didnāt⦠but anyway itās like a pokemon go thing were tiny Liam Kelvin is just perched on your dirty laundry or table or whatever you point your phone at. ANYWAY, virtual Liam is awkward and weird and not a very good lipsyncer, but real Liam sounds amazing and looks terrific and the contrast only draws more attention to how well Liam holds the space on stage and how good he looked, in particular when they put the avatar and Liam together for the main event. He/ they sang Midnight, and it sounded great and was a big hit besides, the papers loved him as the show opener and were into the gimmick.
Louisā new friend Sergio Aguero talked about DMing with him on his recent twitch stream (Sergioās). Being Argentinian he ofc just starts talking to him about mate (the Argentinian tea, not bros, pronounced like mah-tay) which I have to say is dead on brand for every Argentinian I have ever met; you think Louis is serious about his Yorkshire but heās probably met his beverage obsessed match here! Anyway so Sergio is like do you like mate, and ācheck out my tea stuffā (and sends him a picture of the traditional gourd and straw drinking apparatus) and Louis is like āidk what that is mateā which is hilarious because what it is⦠is mate⦠which is spelled the same⦠which Sergio tries to explain to his viewers but anyway yeah thatās the tea! Lol. He said that Louis has reached out a while back (but he didnāt know who Louis was until he was like āI was in One Directionā) and invited Sergio to a footie match in Portugal (to play with Louisā famous people league team weāve heard about before I bet) but he couldnāt go and they just started chatting now, after Louis messaged again; Louis was in Mexico but theyāre gonna hang out when heās back in the UK, and Sergio will give him some mate! LMAO OF COURSE he will. Louis will absolutely hate it but I would LOVE to see him try to be nice about some unfamiliar bitter herb water served in a gourd that sounds like PURE GOLD tbh.
Anne Marie talked about the Niall teaser pic for their collab. She said sheād wanted to work with him because āI just love his voice and heās Irish, you know, heās hotā, lol, and that ā he was just playing guitar, playing piano, and I was like wow youāre actually talented cause you never know whoās actually talented these daysā and āwe wrote like three songs and they were all brilliant.ā Will we ever hear the other two songs?? I mean Iām fine to start with just the one, anytime now, but something to considerā¦
Falling won an ADG Award, the members of the Art Directorās Guild apparently feeling that Harryās leaky piano was better than the competition, Taylor Swiftās leaky piano, and the tabloids picked up on twitter chatter about Harry going blond for My Policeman (because the character in the book is blond some people think he will bleach his hair) and then everyone talked about it more because the tabloids said so IT MUST BE TRUE. UM, are you even hearing yourselves? They donāt know shit people this is a feedback loop here.