Still don’t know how anyone listened to Walls when it came out and was still under the impression H&L were still together/or at least in a stable, healthy relationship. That album is full of very clear Larry songs that are break up songs/singing about an ex you aren’t over. So was H’s.
I don’t know where they’re at now. Based on musical evidence and recent actions it seems like they’re still in some sort of angsty back-and-forth. Makes me sad.
But more than anything it makes me so confused that anyone looks at their albums full of break up songs and says “oh, they’re still together in a happy stable relationship”. Baffles me to no end.
Like, you analyze the songs enough to recognize they’re songs about each other/their relationship, but you ignore the implications of the songs/the other lyrics??
The release of their first solo albums was directly what made me no longer a Larrie. I guess I’m a Houie now. Being a houie is such a weird liminal space. I still believe in Larry as like, a thing that happened. But now thinking about their relationship just makes me sad.
What community do I fall into? I don’t know. There isn’t exactly a community of Louies that are houies. There’s Larries, there’s hets, there’s the solo Louies that dislike harry and think he’s toxic. But I’ve yet to see a fan group of houies who just see their solo songs as what they are, and acknowledge the complicated mess of their current dynamic.
Acknowledge that they got together as teenagers and it’s extremely common for people who got together at that age to break up in their mid twenties. Because you’re a different person in your 20s than you are as a teenager. People grow apart. Acknowledge that it doesn’t seem like, at least in the past, they were very good at communicating. That the age they got together combined with the life they lived while in 1D didn’t exactly create a great environment for a healthy relationship.
I don’t see discussion of their current dynamic, of what led to we are now. Louis said pretty explicitly in Walls that they’ve been [at the very least in a very rocky relationship] since 2018. NO analysis of the lyrics of Too Young, no reading between the lines. There are only communities of people who think they’re super happy together, or ppl who don’t acknowledge Larry at all. No nuance.
So where do I fit in the fandom? No where. That’s a contributing factor behind why I rarely participate in the fandom.
