At least with their previous effort Take Me Home, the singing felt a bit more genuine and the slower moments established a decent sense of emotion and atmosphere. Right from the peppy power pop of opener "Best Song Ever" to the slow closing power ballad "Better Than Words," almost everything is overly predictable in relation to the band's already-established sound. Unfortunately, it only comes off as stale and even confused we'll get to the latter description later though. Described by the band as a more rock-inspired album than their last two, you'd expect the album to be a bit more mature and interesting. This is all fine and dandy, however, because One Direction are now attempting to become more edgy with Midnight Memories. In any case, the music is certainly nothing special just your average run-of-the-mill teen/tween pop music. Perhaps the problem is more in the hands of The X Factor - the televised music competition they placed third in - as well as Simon Cowell for influencing the direction they'd take. It would be cool to see the boy band sound make a return, particularly if it's in the vein of early-60s Beatles instead, One Direction prefer to take the safest and most over-produced route to this endeavor.
yeah, I see exactly where the so-called "haters" are coming from.
While trying to spearhead a new generation of boy bands, they've only garnered a reputation of killing what chance for revival and relevance the scene could have (for the tremendous number of detractors, anyway). When you get down to it, One Direction could essentially be considered the equivalent of taking pop star Justin Bieber's radio-friendly pop and squeaky-clean tween image and transferring those qualities into five young men from the UK. "How did they strike a chord with so many people?" "What's their appeal?" "When will their careers end?" It seems as though these questions haven't been answered, but I can safely say that this boy band are no anomaly whatsoever and these questions will be (or are) answered quite easily. The success of One Direction has been described by many detractors as nothing short of an anomaly.
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