Harry changed his Header and Icon and added a website, also changed his IG Icon and added the website and also changed his Facebook layout today 😍😍
ever since he was just a pup they’ve stripped him down and built him up into the commodity, this Harry Styles ™ brand while not letting him be harry styles. they took this boy and plastered his face with every woman in a 100 mile radius calling him horrible things. they made up this persona of who they wanted us to see as Harry Styles ™ - slow, stupid, cocky, too good for his bandmates, womanizer etc. and they’ve tried to portray him as those things with a large amount of success. and harry styles, beautiful, lovely, amazing harry knows this. he knows that everyone will see his tattoos, see his eyes, and know it’s him from all of that. so he’s taken it and he’s fucking used it. he’s standing there staring into souls with those green eyes screaming, “alright, you think you ‘know’ me? just you fucking wait.”
Remember when Steve Aoki so proudly and publicly called Louis Tomlinson “ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING DUDES ON THE PLANET”?
How it must have irked all of Louis’ industry detractors and haters that a global superstar DJ - known to be one of the most hardworking, creative, respected and multi-faceted artists in the industry, who is his own massive brand - has given such lavish praise and a strong endorsement of Louis both as a person and an artist. Just as Louis has always deserved.
Make no mistake, Steve and Louis’ collaboration and friendship is major and is pure magic itself. But to have Steve Aoki’s endorsement and professional praise? The music industry took notice. 100%.
This Savan thing reminds me of a quote I heard about SNL: If you don't write your own stuff you're not going to get on the show. Savan didn't write for Louis, he didn't let Louis shine. So what did Louis do? He wrote his own songs. He got on the show. He proved time and again he is talented and deserves his spot. And Savan couldn't handle knowing someone he dismissed ended up shining brighter than he could have anticipated.
Savan wtf
It honestly baffles me how Savan spoke about One Direction and Louis in particular.
I mean come on man even if you didn’t say his name directly you dropped enough references but ok
The thing that cannot get out of my head is that Savan was there from the first day. He practiced with them and mentored them and how he speaks about them now makes me realize some stuff
The way Savan talks about Louis and the way Ross reacts to it and immediately knowing who Savan is talking about makes me certain about the fact that Savan is not shy to talk about Louis like this at all. I don’t want to imagine what he told other songwriters and people in the industry about Louis with his biased perspective. He made clear in the interview that he doesn’t believe in Louis’ talent as a singer nor songwriter.
How it was Louis’ fault he had to end the creative relationship with One Direction. How Louis didn’t ‘recognize the development he did for the boys in the industry’ etc. That Louis pushed him away because he raised his voice the loudest. So basically Savan is talking about Louis as a loud talentless brat who doesn’t appreciate and recognizes anyone who will work with him?! wtf
Louis is the complete opposite of all of that. He has the most songwriting credits of all of them. He does shout outs to the people he works with and shares pics of the songwriting process. He tries to use his platform to give young songwriters or artists a voice.
Honestly. He is the most insecure and doubtful singer, because from day one his own vocal coach who should have given him confidence and help him with vocal development told him he wasn’t good enough for a solo. Even after the bands success.
Savan spoke about how the third album decided that he will no longer work with One Direction because of creative differences. And what was the third album? Their biggest success. With MM they actually made music. And who wrote most of the songs? Louis. And who got magically more solos on MM after Savan left? Louis. He works his butt of and still get’s so nervous about everything he does, is incredibly humble about his success and still doesn’t believe in himself enough to not be baffled when people enjoy his writing and singing. Because from day one his mentors and guys in expensive suits told him he wasn’t good enough.
The creative differences weren’t that One Direction wasn’t talented. It was because Savan held them back - because he was so focused on creating mindless mainstream pop and pushing them into a corner that he missed what One Direction was about and what they could create.
I have always asked myself why Louis didn’t have at least one solo during the X-Factor and Savan kind of answered that. He didn’t like Louis and didn’t believe in Louis from day one. Savan was so invested with the typical boyband from his earlier years that he projected all of that onto One Direction.
He immediately put everyone into these categories, building up Liam as the dreamy lead who has the perfect mainstream voice, Harry as the cheeky lovable guy with a little bit of a rough voice who will go solo first and will have the most success anyways, Zayn the mysterious badboy with the harmonies to die for and Niall and Louis as the backup singers who will be forgotten soon.
Savan was a huge part in creating these archetypes for One Direction from day one because the industry has always worked like that until then. Even a blind man can see how much all of these industry guys worked on fitting One Direction in to a boyband stereotype, they had to work hard on that.
Of course the overall concept, even before any of the boys had even auditioned for the X-Factor was “to find a band of boys who are marketed as your everyday schoolmate and could be your best friend and also maybe your boyfriend but still fit into the boyband corner” Hardy made that clear. (So fuck Simon and “his idea” to put them in a band. This in itself is a scam because it was decided to create a bad like One Direction before the boys even auditioned individually and the producers decided before the live shows who will be “called back on stage to be put in a band after the solo acts were decided”)
That Savan is talking so fondly about Harry is not a big surprise. From a certain perspective is he absolutely right. Harry has without a doubt the biggest star potential, has mind blowing talent and could take over the world in a heartbeat. So pushing Harry and supporting him in the industry by raising his profile and introducing him to the right people is the best business move possible. Harry always had and still has the highest profile in the band and the biggest credibility of all of them. That’s not a secret.
But putting a person down to lift another one up is not a nice thing to do. I’m sure Harry would agree with me here, also his actions over the years disagreed with a lot of this.
I don’t know why Savan is so bitter about Louis and One Direction. He has enough success without them and their royalties. Maybe it’s because he was wrong about them from the start. That Louis actually had talent and Savans biased mind wouldn’t ‘recognize his development’ in and for the band. That Harry is still not a mega super successful solo artist like Savan anticipated (maybe that’s why he was making sure he is ‘such a good friend’ of Harry, because his album is coming soon and having the right friends in this industry is key IDK)
Long story short, I am so incredible disappointed and saddened by Savans words and attitude towards One Direction. How he labels them as a not credible artist still and looks down on them and their creative and artistic abilities.
This was a new interview, which means he has heard Midnight Memories, FOUR and Made In The AM and still discredits them. No “boyband” has ever made such a drastic development. In writing, singing and genre and their success nowadays is deserved, well deserved. Unlike the time during their first two albums when they had to sing mindless and carefully manufactured mainstream pop when Savan was still part of the creative process.
But that’s just my opinion I guess.
(And Julians hey remember the interview he did and he talked about how he hated the first two albums and he was making real music with the boys now and how he doesn’t care about the previous songwriters lmao. Not that Julian is my favorite because he can be a pain in the arse but I definitely like him more than Savan.)
Savan...my dude.
Ok, some context.
- Savan Kotecha: Very well-known and successful songwriter who has worked with a ton of acts, including a lot on One Direction’s first 2 albums (”One Thing,” “Kiss You,” “Up All Night”). He worked on the X Factor the season the boys were on, too.
- Ross Golan: Songwriter who wrote “If I Could Fly” with Harry for “Made in the A.M.”
So it’s kind of like, the old guard meeting the new guard of songwriters and talking about One Direction a little during this longer podcast.
After talking about not breaking acts like Ariana and the Weeknd, but helping them surpass their middling chart performances and break into real Top 10 of the Top 40 Radio market:
Savan: But, yeah, we didn’t break an act. And even though One Direction is not, like, a credible act, the way, the-the meetings I had with the industry, because, whether or not all the boys recognize [laughing] the development I did for that band from day one, everyone that was around it that was in charge of it, they all saw it, and that spread within the industry. And the tremendous success obviously.
Ross: Is that why you pulled away from them, or is it just sort of like, they grew up-
Savan: They grew up.
Ross: And do their own thing, because they want to go and try to be more credible and-
Savan: Yeah, I think, like, it was a lot in the very beginning. And I’ll take a lot of blame for some of the stuff in the very beginning. They were a manufactured boyband. That’s what it was. They weren’t all hustling musicians trying to make it. They were on a TV show and, and we purposefully, and I was open about that. Like ‘you’re gonna hate hate the music that you do in the beginning.’ Like, I was open about that. You’re 17, 18 year old boys, you’re not supposed to like what a boyband does. Historically, that’s just not how it’s gonna go. And that’s what happened, but it blew up. And yeah, I think by album 3 [Midnight Memories], yeah, not all of them, there was definitely one or two-one especially-that was like, kind of bitter about the fact, that, you know-
Ross: They were a boyband?
Savan: -and he was not the talented one. He wasn’t the singer, and he wasn’t the star. And you know which one I’m talking about…
Ross: Of course.
Savan: And he then started having something against me and against that process, I think. And, you know, maybe we could have been more inviting in the creative process during album 2 [Take Me Home] and not been so…authoritative, but. What happened is that, also, I knew the from day 1. They would cry on my shoulder, because I was with them through the show, and development. No one knew what that thing could be, and who could sing lead, or what that was. And that was me helping shape that thing. And especially the first record. You know, the label wanted, there was this, like, Stargate [another production team] reject Rhianna dance-y song, that they really wanted to do. And I was like ‘No, that can’t be the direction.” ‘Cause, like, they were like my little brothers. I had a lot invested, in like, my time, and emotionally in these kids and their parents and everything.
Ross: Because of the show.
Savan: Because of the show. And the U.K. show is really intense. You become family. It’s three months, and, I love those kids.I will always pick up the phone if any of them call. Even like, that one. And I remember with, like, Julien, I had to convince some of them that, like, ‘you should go in with Julien, he’s really good.’ And agree to go in with him, and like, I think like, and, and when they did, I mean, I’m really happy for Julien in all that.
Ross: Oh yeah!
Savan: Because I think, like what he was able to do, because he came from a different perspective. Like, I came from ‘these are kids from a show and I’ll tell you guys what to do,’ because in the beginning, that’s what I had to do. And I think, for me, it was then hard for me to see them in a different way. And I think they needed, especially a few of them, like needed, people who could see them in a different way.
Ross: Right.
Savan: And it’s kind of hard for me to see them-it was hard for me to adjust and see them in a different way. They’d be like ‘yeah, I’ll give you musical-yeah, you have musical credibility.’ ‘Cause I already had a bunch of hits with them, with people, and for me, it was like ‘you guys didn’t know what you were doing in the beginning, so why-.’ For me and looking back, I’m sure my process was like ‘but of course they don’t know what they’re doing or saying. they’re just from a show!’ You know what I mean?
Ross: Right.
Savan: And I was wrong. I was wrong to think that way, because they’re, they’ve grown into like, especially some of them, have grown into like really knowing what they’re doing. I mean, like Harry’s a fantastic writer.
Ross: We did that song. Harry and Johan [Carlsson] and I did that song [”If I Could Fly”] it was shocking how good he is.
Savan: He’s amazing.
Ross: [talking over Savan] And these kids are now working with the best writers, been on tour with the best artists, and been on tour throughout the world, you know, and your developing years spent, spending those four or five years listening to amazing writers…if you’re open-minded, and you know, these kids all should be really good.
Savan: Yeah. And at the point, it was like, yeah. And you know, it was also just the social thing, where like I had a baby during the second album. I couldn’t be around, hanging, going on tour with them, and doing that thing with them. If you haven’t had this yet, but when you like, help an artist start from the beginning and you guys are close, you start going on tour. There’s a lot of other people, they start meeting other artists and other writers. And there’s a lot of people that want to go get in there, and be in your position, and that happens, and that becomes, like, this mind fuck. So, with Harry, it was really interesting. Harry always-especially since album two-you really saw he’s a really fucking good writer. Like, we did a song together, like for the third album [”Happily”], the only thing we did for the third album, and he was just-the song “Happily” which I’m really proud of, and I think he is, as well. He was-it wasn’t like that thing, where like, writing down for the artist, he was like fucking great, like bringing ideas. So that was cool to see. But I think, especially, with like one of the particular members, it was hard to see that person, and like take that person the way he wanted to be seen, and he became, like, the loudest voice of the group. And at that point, I just told the label, it became kind of like unhappy for me to feel like, ‘why’s he doing that?’, like, so for me it became just this really heartbreaking thing, that like, he wanted, they wanted to move in a different direction. And I felt like ‘I don’t wanna lose sleep over this.’ It really felt like I can’t see it in a different way than I’m seeing it. So I think they made the-it was right for both of us. Put it that way. To not continue creatively being-
Ross: That gave you time. First of all, cutting out things that are negative as a songwriter is essential.
Savan: Yeah…
[chatter about a bad artist relationship Ross had]
Savan: Yeah…and like, Harry and I always stay in touch. Me and Zayn, at the time, were always in touch. And that…it was always, sort of like, this loving relationship. And obviously I brought Harry into our camp, and like, Johan, and you guys starting working-you guys write great music together. And I’m so proud of him. And I haven’t heard Zayn’s solo stuff, but I’ve heard it’s really good.
Ross: Do you like…have you though about working with…[Zayn], or is it sort of like, that train has sailed [laughs]?
Savan: Put it this way. For any of those boys, if they ever reached out to me and wanted help, I would, in a heartbeat, do it. Just because of loyalty. If Zayn ever said ‘look, i need your help,’ or ‘can you come listen to stuff.’ He doesn’t need me, from what I understand, it’s really good. I don’t think they want to go to me, I don’t think. I mean, maybe Harry’s different, because we’re kind of closer, and we’ll see what he does if, you know, if all that stuff. But like, um, probably until the Weeknd, I understand why Zayn wouldn’t want to. They only know me as the guy who did their early stuff, which, you know, is not the stuff that they’re proud of. Even though they know I did other stuff. I mean, Harry understands that, because he understands the music business.
Ross: But the Weeknd gives you a credibility…it opens such a big door. Like you said, Ariana opened the door for the Weeknd.
Savan: Yeah, and then, the whole, letting the One Direction thing go. It was a year of trying to find myself again. It was a super intense few years. And I lost a lot of confidence during that time. And it was Max [Martin] who helped me get out of the funk.
There’s a lot going on here. I don’t know if the person he repeatedly references in the group is Zayn or Louis or Liam. He names Harry and Zayn by name later in the interview, and talks fondly of them and working together again. So I think the person he has conflict with was likely Louis or Liam. Neither of them wrote much with Savan on songs that made the first three albums. I tend to think it was probably Louis he had creative differences with, because Liam’s stuff is more R n B sounding, which is more Savan’s chosen style. Louis’ stuff is all acoustic/rock/EDM. It’s never that rythmic pop sound. So I can definitely see them having creative differences around Midnight Memories time.
I think they talk the most about Harry and Zayn in this interview, because at the time it was recorded, Zayn’s album wasn’t out and Ross co-wrote “If I Could Fly” with Harry, so they had a shared, positive writing relationship.
Savan takes a lot of subtle swipes at the band and Louis, especially. There’s definitely a lot of bitterness wrapped up in being pushed out (by Louis) and replaced (by Julien), and that definitely lends itself to the “Praise Harry!” and “Fuck this unnamed member who is totally Louis” tone of this interview.
I hate the concept of the call out culture that exists on the internet. But I also really hate when people lie, and I hate the repercussions of people lying and I hate the manipulation and fear that comes from it. And I hate that people I know were manipulated and left something they otherwise enjoyed because of those lies. So when I wake up to far to many questions, fears, and concerns because of a post that someone that I firmly disagree with and believe is lying made I am going to try my best to respond to those lies and manipulations in a civil manner. So I did reblog some posts, and respond to some anons today where I normally try to bite my tongue but this time I felt it was necessary.
But, no matter what or who you believe going to someone and wishing ill on them, their friends, their pets or their family is never ever ever acceptable. If you do that you need to seek out help because you have some much bigger issues going on in your life. At the end of the day the people I am most repulsed by today are the chicken shit cowards who go on anon and threaten people and say terrible things to them about the people they love. I have received so many of those messages over the past year that I have lost count. No matter how thick your skin is, no matter how much you think you don’t care getting a message like that is one of the worst things you can experience.
Can we just try to be decent people? Try to do unto others as you would have them do unto you? Please
I’m sure this is a pointless post and will have no greater effect because disgusting humans will continue to be disgusting but please I beg of you realize that just because you disagree with someone doesn’t mean you should try to cause that person pain.
We’re told One Direction singer Harry Styles is in the Lords today.
He’s a guest of Labour’s Lord Winston, whose son has directed several of the band’s videos, and was also introduced to shadow Lords leader Baroness Smith of Basildon.
No word yet on whether he intends to stick around for eight more hours of the Lords debate on Brexit… - BBC
Harry and Liam took to Instagram to post their feelings and thoughts about today’s tragic event in Orlando. We, too, at @onedirectionnda are thinking of all the loved ones, family and community effected by this senseless tragedy. It’s important that we stand together and offer whatever we can to support one another through this difficult time. -CL,YM&MP
@DanWootton Fuck You #justsaying
Zayn had four other people beside him for five years. I understand that it can be frustrating during interviews (because they are always chaotic) but they distracted from him and most importantly distracted him when he needed it.
I respect Zayns choice to go solo (I don’t feel exactly the same about how it went down but that’s not important right now) Having a creative mind is wonderful. Having five creative minds in one place is as well!! But it can limit you. All of the boys had to adjust. Especially when a label is censoring you.
Choosing your art before a compromise is not a crime.
But not having your best friends around you that lift you up, pat you on the back if you struggle, reach out for you when you feel like drowning is tough.
I know Zayn choose to leave. But that doesn’t make it easier.
Having anxiety is not an “excuse” !! Anxiety is a power you can’t control.
this is where harry and louis run into each other’s arms after a long time apart
harry and louis sleep here amongst other things
harry cooks here and louis initiates food fights here
harry and louis play football here while louis teases harry
this is where harry and louis have midnight skinny dips
#WeLiveTogetherDealWithIt
I've seen a few blogs speculating that Harry is a partner in Full Stop. Do you think it's likely?
I think it’s very likely. I don’t know if we’d ever find out if he is or not, but it’s something I’ve thought he might take from the ‘Taylor Swift handbook to handling your career’ because she owns her management company ‘13 Management’ in partnership with her manager. So I really wouldn’t be surprised if he has some sort of stake in the company. I mean, he did add the full stop to his name on twitter back in like SEPTEMBER 2014…coincidence or were they already taking small steps to setting stuff up for their futures even back then…?