Between that date and their last live performance (so far, one can hope) on December 31st, 2015, they released five albums, toured the world four times - twice playing stadiums - and left a trove of Top 10 hits for a devoted global fan base that came to life at the moment social media was redefining the contours of fandom. July 23rd marks One Direction’s 10th anniversary, the day Simon Cowell told Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson that they would progress on The X Factor as a group. It’s a midtempo headbanger that captures the essence of what One Direction is, and always was: One of the great rock & roll bands of the 21st century. It was never a single, but became a fan-favorite live-show staple.
“Better Than Words,” closed One Direction’s third album, Midnight Memories. “And if you’re sort of winking at it, laughing at it - we were probably joking, ‘What if “More than a feeling”? Well, that would actually be tight!’” “Songs in general, you’re just sort of waiting for an idea to bonk you on the head,” Ryan says from a Los Angeles studio, with Bunetta. Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely DanĮvery Super Bowl Halftime Show, Ranked From Worst to Best Most of it was mumbled - a temporary place-holder - but there was one phrase: “Better than words …” A few hours later, on the bus to another city, another show - Bunetta and Ryan can’t remember where - Liam asked, maybe having a laugh, “What if the rest of the song was just lyrics from other songs?” At one point, Liam got up to use the bathroom, and when he re-emerged, he was singing a melody. The second takes place a few years later: Another hotel room in England - this one in Manchester - where songwriters and producers Julian Bunetta and John Ryan were throwing back Cucumber Collins cocktails and tinkering with a beat. The first will be familiar to any fan: Songwriter and producer Savan Kotecha was sitting on the toilet in a London hotel room, when he heard his wife say, “I feel so ugly today.” The words that popped into his head would shape the chorus of One Direction’s unforgettable 2011 debut, “What Makes You Beautiful.” Whereas the camera often zooms in and out on the 'present day' band, often either side of the black and white clips, I think this is symbolic of perspective and the zooming in/out is the director changing out perspective on the band - hence why it comes before and after.A bathroom figures significantly in the origin stories of at least two classic One Direction songs. On the majority of the shots of 'the past,' the camera stays pretty still as if it is just an observation - somebody looking in on/at One Direction and their career.
#One direction 1 video diary code#
The second technical code that is a use of Binary Oppositions is the use of the camera. Because of the dullness of the black and white filter, when the shot moves back to the boys singing to us, it feels almost more fresh, the colour seems brighter and it just generally feels more in the moment and more pleasant. A mixed bag of emotions and, regardless of how they feel about it, knowing that everything is going to be different now One Direction is finished. In colour theory, black is evil and white is good, the use of the filter could be a message of the mixed emotions about One direction and it being over. The music video uses black and white to show to make the old clips stand out more and really bring home that change between then and now. The first of which being the use of colour, or therefore lack of. Either way, the use of black and white makes the rational "Directioner" emotional.īinary Oppositions are used in this music video through the technical codes.
I say unspecified because some viewers will find the "throwback" shots happy and a celebration of their 5 years together and others will find them sad and a sign these times weren't the happy times they seemed to be. The use of black and white is an intentional move from the directors in order to, not only differentiate between the past and present but also to, provoke an unspecified emotion in the audience. Between Niall's vocal and shot dominance takeover, there is more clips of the boys in Black and White. For fans that have followed them from the beginning, just these few seconds of shots will have given them an extreme feeling of nostalgia - setting the tone for the rest of the video.
#One direction 1 video diary series#
The rest of the first 17 seconds flip between a modern day (at the time) Harry singing into the camera and the series of events that followed it, them finding out they have been put together and their first hug as a band. The opening shot, a black and white clip of the original 5 members stranding on the X Factor stage waiting to find out whether or not they're about to become a band.
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