#howsyabum

[bearmustard]

Hahaha I suppose I'll let you have it. Would rather have the rugby World Cup anyway ;) hope you're surviving this hell of a promo week so far haha!

I’m an AFL girl all the way, so you can have your rugby. I’m even barracking for you guys in the cricket this year (the Australian team are arrogant fucks)

[bearmustard]

CLARE. Don't do this crowded house thing with me. Stop poaching from NZ you filthy ockers hahahahaha

Ahem. 2/3 of Crowded House are Australian. They were based/came up through the Melbourne music scene in the 80s. I’ll give you Split Enz, and you get Neil Finn, of course, but Crowdies are OURS. 

[persimmonlions]

ah gahd I would love for louis or Harry to give years and years a promo tweet! Kings is a banger! Also, I was thinking about what is next for the boys this year.. What would your thoughts be on a collaboration? Would it be something we would likely see? I can think who with or if it's even possible by yeah

Years and Years is great; they deserved that Sound Of win. King (link) is so lush. Imagine Zayn or Liam putting out an album that sounded like their Soundcloud.

I’m hoping all of those unreleased writing collabs Harry and Lilo have done will be on the fifth album. Logistically I don’t think a single feat 1D or 1D feat someone would happen, but I would love to see 1D with different openers on different legs. If the rumour about their OTRA opener is true, this will be my fourth time skipping the opener in a row :( As it stands now I’m only going to get the openers I want once 1D manages to age up its demographic or some British faux-indie band’s US team gets desperate enough.

I don’t know if you want my opinion on individual collabs as well? Liam has been doing some very solid remixes and we already had that Cheryl song. I think he needs to experiment more musically but I’m hoping for some future pop smash collabs there.

Also, I think Zayn and Naughty Boy collab is imminent. They’ve been in the studio a lot, so there's likely more than one song coming. 1D has a lot obligations that preclude Zayn from releasing this solo and NB’s overdue for a new album so there might be a lead single feature? It could also be for someone else; NB’s main collaborator Emeli Sandé is also overdue for an album.

[thebritishboyfriends]

Hahahaha my dad does this "new edition" "one correction" lol

HAHA I LOVE IT. My stepdad also used to call Heath Ledger “pink lemons” SO I JUST. 

[persimmonlions]

Ooooh Michael Cragg has done a 1D piece for i-D! Thought you might be interested given your popjustice interests :)

Apparently i-D has the worst mobile site so it took a while to load: link

Good parts: it starts off by highlighting 1D’s break from the boyband trajectory—a fourth album with all members intact and still raking in cash, what novelty! It goes so far as to say: “In fact, in a Q4 struggling in the wake of Adele going AWOL, FOUR is one of the most important releases of the year.”

Cragg smartly highlights the success of SOML and, noting the lack of no 1 singles, 1D’s social media-reliant strategy. (Cragg, disappointingly, thinks SMG is a stand-out track. Somehow most music journos do!?)

Anyway it’s great to see another culture snob site cover 1D favourably. Thanks for looking out for my Popjustian interests!