"Back to work," said Liam and I'm just gonna assume he meant me cause man, they are making a lot of work for me right now so thank you for noticing Lima so thoughtful!
Louis is of course the man of this week (though the rest are right behind him so next week is anyone's guess), KMM release is closer every minute and we're not to forget it- today we got a lyric tease and a glimpse of some visuals. "The devil in my brain, whispering my name…," Louis tweeted, and a picture of a pen drawing (road, hills) with lyrics (and release info) on it pinned to a board was posted to his instagram. Definitely looks like it could be from another lyric video in the stop motion style of the excellent TOU lyric video (and the JLY video)... And then, a minor German site posted a pre KMM article about Louis, mostly totally standard, except for at the end when it says, "A second song release is already scheduled. As Sony Music announced, the second single We Made It will be released on October 3rd." Some question the source's validity and for sure! This isn't official and could be drawn from (speculative) twitter gossip! But them just carelessly using info that was supposed to be embargoed until a later date is plausible as well. Louis did tell us to expect two singles in close succession, he teased a song called "** **** it" and said that song might be a single, Oct 3 is a Thurs about exactly one month after the KMM release date... I buy it. If it is real and is that song: one, VERY EXCITING, two, we've heard a clip of it! It's the song he posted a clip of in Feb of last year ("a new mix of something for the album.") (Oh my indeed.) And finally, three, it can be about whatever it's about but if he didn't want us to draw a link to Harry singing You're Still The One he could have changed the name and if he didn't know damn well we would he wouldn't have starred it out to save it up.
Liam posted a car selfie this morning titled, as mentioned, "back to work" and then sure enough, got right to it. He showed up at Capitol Records signing a wall, posted a handsome walking-down-the-street pic captioned "I hope you’ve all had a good start to the week," members of his team reposted that pic with the back to work caption, everyone's got a part to do to get the Liam promo machine rolling, he posted a fanart of this mornings selfie (the fast turnover!) and he followed Maya Henry (who then liked his post). We're told by "sources" that he and Maya have "been seeing each other for a while" but were waiting until Liam was promoting a new single to go public. Scott and Chris on BBC Radio 1 mentioned today that they wanted Liam fans to get in touch as 'something cool could go down'; one fan who texted in got a call back and was asked if she was free at 4pm tomorrow (um YES obviously) but given no other details. That show ends at 4 so whatever fan interaction happens is unlikely to be live tomorrow but we'll be hearing from him all week I think: another radio station says that he'll be popping by tomorrow... Tomorrow is also the GQ Men of the Year Awards, co-hosted by Hugo Boss: let's just say I wouldn't bet against him making an appearance but if you want to I'll put big money down in favor
Niall, also gearing up towards release, sat down and wrote an essay on twitter, wow. He writes about how he loves Flicker and how happy he was/is with it, and how appreciative of the response, and how touring it let him see what people responded to and work that into his process, and how excited he is to get the new stuff out. "What's the hold up then," he's asked, and he is like yeah yeah there's a lot that goes into this, and talks about all the different teams working on different parts of things. A good reminder of the iceberg that is a label release: months of work that have to be completed with us seeing only glimpses before the much smaller visible result pokes up out of the water for us to catch sight of at the last minute before we crash and die.
Harry liked a post about a fan's journey to feeling more confident with being gender non-conforming set to a HS1 vs HS2 timeline and a couple pictures from Harris Reed's new (gender fluidity themed) collection and took a fan pic back in London: don't ask cause I don't know, his hair was tucked in a hat.