One Direction!
The highly anticipated third album, “Midnight Memories” from One Direction is exactly what lovers and haters of the band thought it would be. The album sold 237,000 copies in its first week and shot to No. 1 in the United Kingdom. With pop verses and choruses backed by a variety of instrumentals and five-part harmonies, One Direction showed the world what corporate-driven music can really sound like.
The album starts out with the incredibly modest “Best Song Ever.” The song is a dedication to a night where a boy meets a girl whose dad is a dentist. I’m not sure of the meaning behind telling us the father’s occupation, but I digress. The chorus goes, “We danced all night to the best song ever, we knew every line but now we can’t remember.” Even though the title is misleading, this is not the best song ever. It is a song about the best song ever. It is a tribute. That’s right; One Direction pulls a fast one on all of us by making a hit song with something Tenacious D was doing 11 years ago.
The album’s title track “Midnight Memories” shows off the group’s harder side. With prominent hard rock riffs, this song is straight out of the ’80s. But watch out, because this track is lyrically frightening. One verse goes, “Big house party with a crowded kitchen, people talk ‘shh’ but we don’t listen.” People need realize One Direction clearly doesn’t care about the “shh” you are talking about. They are throwing parties so crowded the average person could not navigate through the kitchen (a clear fire hazard), yet people are still talking “shh.” These singers obviously are a force to be reckoned with.
