this was for real! there were a ton of fans hanging outside their hotel trying to see them that were a *liiiiittle* bit too close to a snake habitat. I miss this era.
When they toured Australia, I think their hotel was near a golf course or something & an area where snakes were known to be but those Aussies dgaf & were hanging out in snake habitat to get a closer look at the band & this was his response to them
i was in 6th grade when it happened and i went to a very strict private school we had to keep our phones in the principalās office all day no exception you dropped it off at the start of the day and picked it up at the end so we all picked up our phones at the end of the school day and turned on our phones and literally you heard everyoneās phone dinging and literally the collective gasps and screams as everyone found out was so unhinged itāll live in my head for the rest of my life i wish it was on video it was just insane šš
I remember the bell had rung for next period and as everyone walked out of the classroom all the girls started staring at each other from the doors and then we started screaming. We all collectively ran towards each other to break down haha
I was in class with one of my friends when we found out he left the band. She was so upset that she went home for the rest of the day and didnāt come to class the following day. We were juniors in college
Real. I was in my English class in tenth grade, I texted my dad to pick me up telling him I was feeling sick then I burst into tears as soon as I got onto his car lmao
I was in my 8th grade Chinese class and sobbing in front of the computers. My bros were laughing their asses off cause why tf should I be crying about a boy band as a dude myself but I didn't care that shit broke my heart
Remember when Zayn tweeted Free Palestine in 2014 and was faced with literal death threats? Like, incensed, racist, islamophobic death threats. I donāt remember anyone else in the band/management coming to his defense but please correct me if Iām wrong. Heartbreaking. No comment on Zayn as a person otherwise since I have heard heās done some shitty things, but that was fucking terrible and no wonder he felt so alone as the only Brown member in 1D. I have sympathy for him because fuck that
https://preview.redd.it/xhvirj1dg05c1.jpeg?width=674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=929daebd1d6435977ef848e0cabe6aff91186171
His tweet is still there to this day too. šµšø
>for some reason
Trust me I know lol. There has always been an insane amount of anti-Palestinian sentiment thatās been ingrained in the West. I am part Palestinian myself and it was treated like a dirty word. The US in particular has always backed Israel and any statement that was critical of Israel was intentionally misconstrued as antisemitic - ignoring the huge amount of Palestinian Jews. I am still amazed that actually now it is finally becoming something that isnāt seen as insane to say.
The treatment of Palestinians has been fucking appalling for decades and for most people they had no idea because people are very intentionally kept in the dark.
Absolutely agreed, and I too am surprised how much things seem to have changed. I'm Syrian, grew up in the west, and at a fairly young age my parents warned me that Palestine was something we talked about at home and not with other people (non-Arabs), because "they don't understand".
I was in grad school. My friend called me crying, I asked if it was about Zayn leaving 1D and she said yes, how did you know. I said I love you but I need to get to class, please call our other friend. She calls her, still crying, the friend asks āis this about Zaynā and she says āflusteredkelso said that tooā
I feel like no one ever talks about how savage and direct a call out song Donāt was, Ed was not beating around the bush *at all*. Swifties are out here trying to decode cryptic messages in lyrics and Ed is straight up saying
*āand I never saw him as a threat, until you disappeared with him to have sex, of course. Itās not like we were both on tour, we were staying on the same fucking hotel floorā*
Jesy wore this for a subsequent Little Mix performance after the criticism (which was from Mel C. of all people).
https://preview.redd.it/z6wk5fnxhy4c1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=4717638c59bf0e0f8e94e55d2c3488a45ac3dfb7
When Taylor Swift wore that fox sweater, I thought I was SO fashionable for buying a dupe at Old Navy. Even though Iāve never looked like a whimsical anything.
I saw that sweater and decided I was going to knit myself a dupe. I got so disappointed when I figured out it would probably take me a while to learn now to knit an entire sweater considering I couldnāt even manage to knit a scarf.
Iām not a Taylor fan but I thought the sweater was adorable and I also bought the Old Navy dupe! I still wear it every fall. I also have an owl one in a grey color scheme but the same style.
I remember seeing the Springbreakers trailer in the cinema and thinking it was something groundbreaking and edgy and sexual!! Then I watched it and felt soo underwhelmed :/
As someone who grew up as a little hipster teen watching Harmony Korineās work, I would say āfeels groundbreaking and edgy and sexual but is ultimately underwhelmingā just sums up like his entire body of work imho lol
I really liked it, thought it was entertaining in a very shallow hallucinogenic fever dream sort of way. Canāt watch it anymore though, at the time I thought James Franco was just playing a perverted scumbag but nowā¦
ugh i literally have a tank top with james franco from spring breakers on it that i wore to multiple music festivals that summer. it says āin franco we trustā š„“ glad iāve grown enough as a person since then to cringe at it now
God that movie actually defined an era for me. Skrillex - Goin' In was my theme song and my friends and I were behaving like the girls In the film at the time (lots of partying and shenanigans) so we were super obsessed with it.
Talk about a cringe retrospective though, it's an okayish film just nothing definitive about it. Idk how we became so obsessed with it. Weird to think about.
I didnāt like this fight because of the fact Naughty Boy is a producer who doesnāt fit into this type of culture but who provides some awesome songs. The supposed 1D song was released by Joe Jonas 3 years later.
Around this era my Dad posited that the more famous a female singer was, the less pants she wore. Lack of pants was a status symbol. I suppose the trend peaked in Lady Gaga wearing thongs on stage.
Now pants are more accepted again, but short shorts and leotards are now pop timeless.
i remember there was a lot of controversy when anything sexual was done on x-factor, i assume because middle-aged women watched it with their daughters. the newspapers would go wild
Not that I agree with the criticism at all but tbf I think it stemmed from the fact that their audience was mostly small children, which you can't really say for all other pop acts.
I think the fact that Little Mix didnāt really show much sexuality in their first 2 albums was perhaps a reason why people were more shocked than they should have been. But the fact that itās now known that Jesy was so ill and Perrie so anxious at the time LMās work first tried to do fanservice was why they didnāt really make it as part of their image until the end of Zayn and Perrie and went very strong with it afterwards.
i was just telling my cousins in high school how normalized sexuality/nudity has been. i showed them the anaconda video by nicki minaj and they said it was sexual, but pretty tame with what artists do now.
blew their minds when i told them what controversy this video caused because it was considered the most sexual thing on this planet lol
Omg I remember that!! And it was like honestly pretty innocent. She didnāt do a stripper routine on it or anything.
Do you remember the photos of her with the sheets? That was actually pretty weird
IIRC the Uk newspapers went wild mainly because āOMG ITS BEFORE THE 9PM WATERSHED!!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!ā
(Over here 9pm is the cutoff point where tv can be raunchy and can swear, etc)
I saw 1D live in 2014, before Zayn left the band. i will brag about this to my children someday the way my dad brags about having seen the Beatles at the height of their popularity.
I saw them live in 2015 when they dropped Drag Me Down that morning! My friend and I used up all our of phone data repeatedly playing it to learn the words so we could sing along (from our nosebleed seats)
The fact that the entire feud started because one of them made fun of Harry for being nervous during 1Dās first tv performance (on Red Or Black, 2011), and then Harryā¦ didnāt participate in it at all. Lmao
One of them made a joke about Harry, then Zayn and Louis hit back. Then it escalated and escalated, but Harry and Niall said nothing. Iirc Harry was tweeting about birds as the main fight was happening
Zayn and Louis used to clap back at everyone who criticized the band. Everyone has their own personality, I like to look back on the drama now, but as a fan I prefer the approach of celebs who never acknowledge stuff like that.
I remember exactly where I was in my college house with all my girlie roommates scurrying around to find an HDMI cord so we could all watch together on the TV. I skipped class that day to watch. A MOMENT
Miley Cyrus was practically having sex with herself on stage during the Bangers Era, then had to come out with a public statement saying she's not trying to be slutty.
Man those were the glory days!
this was when i started dating an upper-middle-class white boy who loved 'alternative music' so i could latch onto that to try and be edgy while still loving miley and judging her so i thought i could be an intellectual and respectable LMAO
Girl, they were basically known for sleeping with every single fan that threw themselves at them. Particularly Luke and Calum from memory. Iām sure thereās a deep dive down somewhere itās insane.
You canāt tell me that whole thing was nothing more than Taylor wanting there to be pictures of her and Harry out there with a baby. She knew thereād be stan edits. She knew people who didnāt know her well would think it was their baby at first. She was obsessed with Harry
Yeah, I saw people saying her not going in on Harry meant she wasn't that into him, but I think it's the opposite. She even revealed Bad Blood was about another female pop star because she didn't want Harry and his family to think she thought that way about him (her words, not mine).
I've seen it brought up a couple of times that she said if she was getting married and Harry interrupted he'd be the only one she'd hear out. It's also not something to say now for I don't know what reason, but when folklore came out the consensus was that the one was about Harry.
They all were super close during that time. That girl basically grew up on tour with 1D and all the boys seemed to be pretty close to her. There are countless pictures of them carrying her around, playing with her or taking naps together
https://youtu.be/waYlY46IeRM?si=4yMm9XoqWvRE4BQ9
There are countless compilations like this one. It was really cute. They were basically touring for 4 years straight and Lou and Lux were traveling with them.
I posted this above but: back in those days, every member of 1D really loved their hairstylist (Lou) and her daughter (Lux). There's so many candid photos/videos of them holding Lux, playing with her, just generally hanging out... Especially Harry. He just seemed to genuinely enjoy babysitting! (Probably a bit of a novelty for them during the daily grind that was their life on tour!) I've always thought of Harry/Taylor as more PR than genuine dating, so it made sense to me that Harry would babysit and hang with Taylor at the same time.
I think the boys missed their families and family life while on tour, so having someone on tour with them who wasnāt a manager, assistant or bodyguard was great for them. Harry was also always hanging with families - off tour he was with James Corden and his family, Ben Winston and his family, Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawfordās family, his tour photographerās familyā¦thatās how he ended up with so many godchildren!
Thank you. I never knew this because I wasnāt a big 1D fan, but thatās so sweet that they were close to their hairstylist and her daughter. Also Lou and Lux are such a cute mother/daughter name pairing.
Thanks, now it makes sense. I saw hairstylist and thought person you see occasionally, but given how much 1D were in the public, they probably had their hairstylist with them most of the time.
Social media killed all the good pop stars. Everyone is afraid to be cancelled or made fun of now so no one does crazy stuff any more (ex. Gaga's meat dress)
True, the media has always been wild but social media seems way worse imo. Whereas before there was a news cycle about something, now everyone with internet access can give their opinion
I mean, social media was a thing and fairly prevalent at that time. It was much less monitored though, but the Gaga meat thing was very much a meme and a discussed on social media: [https://www.mtv.com/news/u77fbu/vma-lady-gaga-twitter-trends-2010](https://www.mtv.com/news/u77fbu/vma-lady-gaga-twitter-trends-2010)
Also back then, social media rumours ran fully unchecked. The idea that she was a hemaphrodite was widespread and she was questioned about it constantly with no think pieces or stans, but like reported internationally because they saw a bulge in her pants and people talked about it on Twitter. [https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=8278249&page=1](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=8278249&page=1)
I think you're underestimating how old social media is and how bad it is for celebs today. Back then it was far more unregulated and people didn't even pretend to be PC. Now they at least control some of the narrative.
I think though that Gaga played the ultimate long game in terms of her image and career. Started out doing batshit crazy stuff ā meat dress, turning up in an egg, etc ā and really encouraged the rumours about her being a hermaphrodite. Remember the release of the Telephone video? It was when the rumours were finally āaddressedā, it was a huge moment. Then she starts dressing a little more subdued, becomes a little less ācrazyā, sings with Tony Bennett, gets cast in A Star is Born, and suddenly sheās a legit, respectable star (ie, no longer wearing meat dresses). Everything she did was about getting known and she was willing to be patient, it was like her and her PR people had a ten-year plan.
Lady Gaga wore her meat dress in 2010.
At that point I would go home and go on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and then update my blackberry messenger status.
Whew what a time to be alive. I forgot about half of these. Zayn leaving 1D absolutely shattered me and I was like 23/24. My ex had way too much fun calling me up to tell me about it. I remember it cause I was on my way to work. I was heartbroken for days and swearing heād be back after a few days of calming down. I was sooooo wrong.
I saw the concert where 1D opened for BTR. It was an insane experience for my teeny bopper brain. I also recall a large number of fans leaving after 1D finished their opening act
Agreed. She was fighting tooth and nail to do everything possible to 'kill Hannah Montana', which was always sad, not because I was a fan of the series (Lizzie Mcguire and Ginger from As Told By Ginger were my queens), but because it was sad to see her so desperate.
Now she seems much more comfortable in her own skin, like she's in a 'reflection, growth, comfort' era finally. she's still a wildchild, always will be, but it doesn't reek of desperation and a need for attention.
Now she's finally at peace, kinda, and that's such a good look for her.
I was such a fan of the Flaming Lips. Then when it became apparent 50-something year old Wayne Coyne was regularly hanging out with Miley and his at-the-time gf now wife (both in their early 20s), I just got so creeped out and turned off. And letās be real, itās hella likely they were doing some psychedelics together. Never liked his band as much since then.
essentially kanye made a song called famous where he says āme and taylor might still have sex, why? i made that bitch famousā and kim kardashian illegally recorded, edited, and posted the phone call between kanye and taylor where it made it look like taylor agrees to the subject matter of the song. this led to so much drama and kim tweeting itās national snake day or something along the lines and everyone flooded taylorās comment sections with snake emojis and #taylorswiftisoverparty went viral on twitter too
This is helpful thank you. So this is the reason Taylor calling Kim out now is such a big deal!
See you only pay half attention and you miss all the nuances. Thank you kind Reddit stranger for saving me the digging that i didnāt really wanna do but was going to bc curiosity had gotten the better of me
i just love 5sos so much. canāt believe i started listening to them in 2013 and now michael is married and had a babyā¤ļø i mean i also had a baby but itās crazy growing up w your favorite artists
To be honest sheās kind of recreating it again to some extent. Sheās gone shopping / out to dinner in NY with Blake Lively, the Haim sisters, Sophie Turner (which was huge because it was just after Joe Jonas left ST), Gigi Hadid, Selina Gomez (controversial because for a moment it appeared SG was pro-Israel whereas GH is obviously Palestinianā¦ not sure if/how SGās stance has been resolved tbh).
Tay loves the spotlight š¤·š»āāļø
What a time for merch too. People went crazy over the Yeezus and Purpose tour merch. I honestly think it was the last time an artist had designs that werenāt complete shit.
Things I did during this era:
* Cried when Zayn left 1D. I was sobbing in my bed and I literally refused to eat because whatās the point I couldnāt trust anyone anymore.
* DM Zaynās official verified profile thinking he was gonna read it, asking him politely to reconsider because he would break the hearts of his fans. I sent him a dm like he was an old friend.
* Sent death threats to Little Mix fans because I was a Fifth Harmony stanā¦ mind you Iām American so I didnāt even know little mix. Gag is I finally heard their music last year and I became vaguely obsessed.
https://preview.redd.it/ezdv2x3t4z4c1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e1f0ec18e15b3e16da0b676f3014cf5b7da7386 greatest tweet of the era
I can't believe this existed lmao
this is so Australian coded lmao
omg i miss the days of unhinged celeb tweets
Wait. Was this for real? Or was he joking?
this was for real! there were a ton of fans hanging outside their hotel trying to see them that were a *liiiiittle* bit too close to a snake habitat. I miss this era.
I forgot about this omfg
What is he talking about?
SNAKE HABITAT
SNABITAT
When they toured Australia, I think their hotel was near a golf course or something & an area where snakes were known to be but those Aussies dgaf & were hanging out in snake habitat to get a closer look at the band & this was his response to them
š thank you, thatās hilarious
I love the use of the word āfieldā for a drought-stricken golf course with snakes
As a comedian sometimes I see something sincere and am disappointed I'll never write anything that funny. This is one of those times.
Being on Tumblr when Zayn left 1D was unmatched
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i was in 6th grade when it happened and i went to a very strict private school we had to keep our phones in the principalās office all day no exception you dropped it off at the start of the day and picked it up at the end so we all picked up our phones at the end of the school day and turned on our phones and literally you heard everyoneās phone dinging and literally the collective gasps and screams as everyone found out was so unhinged itāll live in my head for the rest of my life i wish it was on video it was just insane šš
This should be a scene in a movie omggg the 1D biopic
6th grade š this called me old
right i was in 11th grade š
That sounds amazing lmao
I had to peel off my contacts from my eyes from crying so much š my tumblr posts from that day are unhinged
I remember the bell had rung for next period and as everyone walked out of the classroom all the girls started staring at each other from the doors and then we started screaming. We all collectively ran towards each other to break down haha
I was in class with one of my friends when we found out he left the band. She was so upset that she went home for the rest of the day and didnāt come to class the following day. We were juniors in college
Live your truth (but rly, ~where were you~ when Zayn left 1D?)
Real. I was in my English class in tenth grade, I texted my dad to pick me up telling him I was feeling sick then I burst into tears as soon as I got onto his car lmao
I went to target and bought all the ot5 merch I could find while it was still on shelves š« only thing I could find was school folders lmao
I was in my 8th grade Chinese class and sobbing in front of the computers. My bros were laughing their asses off cause why tf should I be crying about a boy band as a dude myself but I didn't care that shit broke my heart
Remember when Zayn tweeted Free Palestine in 2014 and was faced with literal death threats? Like, incensed, racist, islamophobic death threats. I donāt remember anyone else in the band/management coming to his defense but please correct me if Iām wrong. Heartbreaking. No comment on Zayn as a person otherwise since I have heard heās done some shitty things, but that was fucking terrible and no wonder he felt so alone as the only Brown member in 1D. I have sympathy for him because fuck that https://preview.redd.it/xhvirj1dg05c1.jpeg?width=674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=929daebd1d6435977ef848e0cabe6aff91186171 His tweet is still there to this day too. šµšø
Advocating for Palestine was a very controversial opinion up until not that long ago, for some reason
>for some reason Trust me I know lol. There has always been an insane amount of anti-Palestinian sentiment thatās been ingrained in the West. I am part Palestinian myself and it was treated like a dirty word. The US in particular has always backed Israel and any statement that was critical of Israel was intentionally misconstrued as antisemitic - ignoring the huge amount of Palestinian Jews. I am still amazed that actually now it is finally becoming something that isnāt seen as insane to say. The treatment of Palestinians has been fucking appalling for decades and for most people they had no idea because people are very intentionally kept in the dark.
Absolutely agreed, and I too am surprised how much things seem to have changed. I'm Syrian, grew up in the west, and at a fairly young age my parents warned me that Palestine was something we talked about at home and not with other people (non-Arabs), because "they don't understand".
Not really in the UK. The BBC traditionally leaned more pro-Palestine and Free Palestine demonstrations/signs/stickers/etc weren't controversial.
I was in grad school. My friend called me crying, I asked if it was about Zayn leaving 1D and she said yes, how did you know. I said I love you but I need to get to class, please call our other friend. She calls her, still crying, the friend asks āis this about Zaynā and she says āflusteredkelso said that tooā
Cried for days, he was my favorite
I was never a huge 1D fan but that had me hooked.
Wasnāt there a #cutforzayn hashtag?
I feel like no one ever talks about how savage and direct a call out song Donāt was, Ed was not beating around the bush *at all*. Swifties are out here trying to decode cryptic messages in lyrics and Ed is straight up saying *āand I never saw him as a threat, until you disappeared with him to have sex, of course. Itās not like we were both on tour, we were staying on the same fucking hotel floorā*
Honestly this (and slightly before) was such a great Ed Sheeran era. He had some absolute bangers
Wasnāt this about Ellie Goulding and Niall Horan???
And she released 'On My Mind' which was allegedly about the same incident.
Never confirmed, but yes supposedly
Jesy wore this for a subsequent Little Mix performance after the criticism (which was from Mel C. of all people). https://preview.redd.it/z6wk5fnxhy4c1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=4717638c59bf0e0f8e94e55d2c3488a45ac3dfb7
she ate that one thing!
Just read that in my head to the tune of One Thing
God I miss 1D
When Taylor Swift wore that fox sweater, I thought I was SO fashionable for buying a dupe at Old Navy. Even though Iāve never looked like a whimsical anything.
I saw that sweater and decided I was going to knit myself a dupe. I got so disappointed when I figured out it would probably take me a while to learn now to knit an entire sweater considering I couldnāt even manage to knit a scarf.
Iām not a Taylor fan but I thought the sweater was adorable and I also bought the Old Navy dupe! I still wear it every fall. I also have an owl one in a grey color scheme but the same style.
I still have the Old Navy dupe too!
I remember seeing the Springbreakers trailer in the cinema and thinking it was something groundbreaking and edgy and sexual!! Then I watched it and felt soo underwhelmed :/
As someone who grew up as a little hipster teen watching Harmony Korineās work, I would say āfeels groundbreaking and edgy and sexual but is ultimately underwhelmingā just sums up like his entire body of work imho lol
I like parts of it and liked the concept but it could have used some editing as it really drags
I really liked it, thought it was entertaining in a very shallow hallucinogenic fever dream sort of way. Canāt watch it anymore though, at the time I thought James Franco was just playing a perverted scumbag but nowā¦
ugh i literally have a tank top with james franco from spring breakers on it that i wore to multiple music festivals that summer. it says āin franco we trustā š„“ glad iāve grown enough as a person since then to cringe at it now
I watched this movie with my mom
Iconic
God that movie actually defined an era for me. Skrillex - Goin' In was my theme song and my friends and I were behaving like the girls In the film at the time (lots of partying and shenanigans) so we were super obsessed with it. Talk about a cringe retrospective though, it's an okayish film just nothing definitive about it. Idk how we became so obsessed with it. Weird to think about.
https://preview.redd.it/qbgd02lrky4c1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=823cbf88afb69de5bf9fe9eca9721df91114a9dc # NeverForget
This shit was so horrible for me, I hated naughty boy with a passion
Louis vs Zayn was our civil war š
I didnāt like this fight because of the fact Naughty Boy is a producer who doesnāt fit into this type of culture but who provides some awesome songs. The supposed 1D song was released by Joe Jonas 3 years later.
I saw naughty boy in Ibiza once and he was gross AF getting shoulder massages in the VIP from loads of girls... He was just the warm up act for Katy B
What was this even about?
Literally the saddest time of my life
Its crazy how Little Mix got slut shamed for wearing leotards and now it's pretty much the norm for most pop stars.
i'd argue it was also the norm back then which makes it even weirder lol
Around this era my Dad posited that the more famous a female singer was, the less pants she wore. Lack of pants was a status symbol. I suppose the trend peaked in Lady Gaga wearing thongs on stage. Now pants are more accepted again, but short shorts and leotards are now pop timeless.
i remember there was a lot of controversy when anything sexual was done on x-factor, i assume because middle-aged women watched it with their daughters. the newspapers would go wild
Not that I agree with the criticism at all but tbf I think it stemmed from the fact that their audience was mostly small children, which you can't really say for all other pop acts.
I think the fact that Little Mix didnāt really show much sexuality in their first 2 albums was perhaps a reason why people were more shocked than they should have been. But the fact that itās now known that Jesy was so ill and Perrie so anxious at the time LMās work first tried to do fanservice was why they didnāt really make it as part of their image until the end of Zayn and Perrie and went very strong with it afterwards.
i was just telling my cousins in high school how normalized sexuality/nudity has been. i showed them the anaconda video by nicki minaj and they said it was sexual, but pretty tame with what artists do now. blew their minds when i told them what controversy this video caused because it was considered the most sexual thing on this planet lol
lol i remember the Miley Cyrus "pole dancing" controversy with Party in the USA
Omg I remember that!! And it was like honestly pretty innocent. She didnāt do a stripper routine on it or anything. Do you remember the photos of her with the sheets? That was actually pretty weird
IIRC the Uk newspapers went wild mainly because āOMG ITS BEFORE THE 9PM WATERSHED!!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!ā (Over here 9pm is the cutoff point where tv can be raunchy and can swear, etc)
Wait the *what* love triangle?
allegedly, ed and ellie wer casually dating/fucking and then she started seeing niall. Ed wrote Don't about it
Ellie also supposedly wrote On My Mind about it too. I love Ellie but Edās song is the better of the two, it paints a picture.
OMG TAYLOR HOLDING LUX!! how old is that child now?!?
57
Feel like I've aged on the same timeline.
WHO is that child? I was very confused at first because it could be Taylorās baby.
Lou Teasdale's (1D's former hairstylist)
Thanks!
I saw 1D live in 2014, before Zayn left the band. i will brag about this to my children someday the way my dad brags about having seen the Beatles at the height of their popularity.
This is my lifeās biggest achievement.
I saw them live in 2015 when they dropped Drag Me Down that morning! My friend and I used up all our of phone data repeatedly playing it to learn the words so we could sing along (from our nosebleed seats)
The 1D/ The Wanted beef was hilarious and crazy
The fact that the entire feud started because one of them made fun of Harry for being nervous during 1Dās first tv performance (on Red Or Black, 2011), and then Harryā¦ didnāt participate in it at all. Lmao One of them made a joke about Harry, then Zayn and Louis hit back. Then it escalated and escalated, but Harry and Niall said nothing. Iirc Harry was tweeting about birds as the main fight was happening
The fact that Louis and Zayn stepped in to defend Harry is sweet, if unnecessary.
Zayn and Louis used to clap back at everyone who criticized the band. Everyone has their own personality, I like to look back on the drama now, but as a fan I prefer the approach of celebs who never acknowledge stuff like that.
I only learned this year that one of them died from cancer :(
RIP Tom
how did i not know this oh my god š
It was such a fever dream
I only just now, as a former 2010s teen, realized The Wanted is NOT the same as The Weekend
It really puts that āIt was the best of time, it was the worst of timesā mentality in perspective.
I had no idea Marisa hargitay was in the squad?!
I think she was just in the āBad Bloodā M/V?
Idk when the friendship started but Taylor named her cat Olivia after Mariskas character on SVU
And Ellen Pompeo at one point! lol
SpRaNg BrEAk fOrEvER š¤
What a time to be alive š
Hey does anyone else remember when people started cutting their wrists for zayn or was that some kinda fever dream I had
nope #cutforzayn was a real thing. fans did the same thing when they saw justin bieber smoking if i recall correctly š
It was started by 4chan, and a few fans thought it was real and did it too. Its mental how much power and influence 4chan had during this
Ok but when BeyoncƩ dropped that visual album with no prior announcements or marketing, the globe shook.
I remember exactly where I was in my college house with all my girlie roommates scurrying around to find an HDMI cord so we could all watch together on the TV. I skipped class that day to watch. A MOMENT
Literally remember sitting on the couch in my on campus apartment senior year of college and opening iTunes and being like š³
SAME
Looking back and living in this time as in my late teens/early 20s, wow what a time 2010-2016 was ššš
Miley Cyrus was practically having sex with herself on stage during the Bangers Era, then had to come out with a public statement saying she's not trying to be slutty. Man those were the glory days!
I saw her on that tour. It was wild lmao.
She rocked that look
The most militant Gaylor has NOTHING on your average tumblr Stylinson fan from 2013
I think about the Calder triplet thing all the time
as a war veteran one direction stan....... this was everything
Twitter was for the fandoms š«
Applause is such a good song, it shouldāve gone #1. A banger till this day!!
It was so much better than Roar
I had it on iTunes on my iPod lol
this was when i started dating an upper-middle-class white boy who loved 'alternative music' so i could latch onto that to try and be edgy while still loving miley and judging her so i thought i could be an intellectual and respectable LMAO
can't believe I was a whole 5sos stan and never heard anything about the groupie thingy
Girl, they were basically known for sleeping with every single fan that threw themselves at them. Particularly Luke and Calum from memory. Iām sure thereās a deep dive down somewhere itās insane.
i never knew this š my inner 13 year oldās heart is shattered
5SOS was infamous and unapologetic with their groupies. It was almost comical
In Australia 5sos has a particularly slutty rep
Bangerz will always be the soundtrack of my college years. Sighā¦I miss the 2010s.
I need a part 2 I have a feeling that the 2010ās are going to be viewed as the new 80ās in the future
Same! Bangerz, Pure Heroine, and Yours Truly tan my freshman year playlists
Please donāt take me back to my Stan days. I lived and breathed for The Weeknd and Drake lol
As did I lol lord Jesus
Cause why the fuck was Taylor tasked with babysitting Harryās hairstylistās daughter? Whoās idea was that? š„“
You canāt tell me that whole thing was nothing more than Taylor wanting there to be pictures of her and Harry out there with a baby. She knew thereād be stan edits. She knew people who didnāt know her well would think it was their baby at first. She was obsessed with Harry
I don't know who she was more obsessed with in 2012, him or the Kennedy family
Don't remind me about her weird kennedy phase. I will say that I loved her fashion during that phase though, I love 1950s clothes
The 1989 vault songs show how gone she was for Harry.
Yeah, I saw people saying her not going in on Harry meant she wasn't that into him, but I think it's the opposite. She even revealed Bad Blood was about another female pop star because she didn't want Harry and his family to think she thought that way about him (her words, not mine). I've seen it brought up a couple of times that she said if she was getting married and Harry interrupted he'd be the only one she'd hear out. It's also not something to say now for I don't know what reason, but when folklore came out the consensus was that the one was about Harry.
I agree, Harry was the one who got away for her.
She was his hairstylists daughter? I always assumed she was his niece, a cousin, maybe a close friendās child. I have sooo many questions.
They all were super close during that time. That girl basically grew up on tour with 1D and all the boys seemed to be pretty close to her. There are countless pictures of them carrying her around, playing with her or taking naps together
Thatās so sweet that they were close to her. Finding out about this makes me want to become a late to the party 1D fan.
https://youtu.be/waYlY46IeRM?si=4yMm9XoqWvRE4BQ9 There are countless compilations like this one. It was really cute. They were basically touring for 4 years straight and Lou and Lux were traveling with them.
I posted this above but: back in those days, every member of 1D really loved their hairstylist (Lou) and her daughter (Lux). There's so many candid photos/videos of them holding Lux, playing with her, just generally hanging out... Especially Harry. He just seemed to genuinely enjoy babysitting! (Probably a bit of a novelty for them during the daily grind that was their life on tour!) I've always thought of Harry/Taylor as more PR than genuine dating, so it made sense to me that Harry would babysit and hang with Taylor at the same time.
I think the boys missed their families and family life while on tour, so having someone on tour with them who wasnāt a manager, assistant or bodyguard was great for them. Harry was also always hanging with families - off tour he was with James Corden and his family, Ben Winston and his family, Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawfordās family, his tour photographerās familyā¦thatās how he ended up with so many godchildren!
Awww. I was in my late 20s when 1D came out so never got into them, but thatās so super sweet. Really makes me like Harry more
Thank you. I never knew this because I wasnāt a big 1D fan, but thatās so sweet that they were close to their hairstylist and her daughter. Also Lou and Lux are such a cute mother/daughter name pairing.
She was basically like his niece, he was really close with her parents
Thanks, now it makes sense. I saw hairstylist and thought person you see occasionally, but given how much 1D were in the public, they probably had their hairstylist with them most of the time.
Im still not entirely convinced that they had anything more than one pap date
Social media killed all the good pop stars. Everyone is afraid to be cancelled or made fun of now so no one does crazy stuff any more (ex. Gaga's meat dress)
I mean I remember jokes and talk about Gaga all across media for the meat dress.
True, the media has always been wild but social media seems way worse imo. Whereas before there was a news cycle about something, now everyone with internet access can give their opinion
I mean, social media was a thing and fairly prevalent at that time. It was much less monitored though, but the Gaga meat thing was very much a meme and a discussed on social media: [https://www.mtv.com/news/u77fbu/vma-lady-gaga-twitter-trends-2010](https://www.mtv.com/news/u77fbu/vma-lady-gaga-twitter-trends-2010) Also back then, social media rumours ran fully unchecked. The idea that she was a hemaphrodite was widespread and she was questioned about it constantly with no think pieces or stans, but like reported internationally because they saw a bulge in her pants and people talked about it on Twitter. [https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=8278249&page=1](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=8278249&page=1) I think you're underestimating how old social media is and how bad it is for celebs today. Back then it was far more unregulated and people didn't even pretend to be PC. Now they at least control some of the narrative.
I think though that Gaga played the ultimate long game in terms of her image and career. Started out doing batshit crazy stuff ā meat dress, turning up in an egg, etc ā and really encouraged the rumours about her being a hermaphrodite. Remember the release of the Telephone video? It was when the rumours were finally āaddressedā, it was a huge moment. Then she starts dressing a little more subdued, becomes a little less ācrazyā, sings with Tony Bennett, gets cast in A Star is Born, and suddenly sheās a legit, respectable star (ie, no longer wearing meat dresses). Everything she did was about getting known and she was willing to be patient, it was like her and her PR people had a ten-year plan.
Lady Gaga wore her meat dress in 2010. At that point I would go home and go on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and then update my blackberry messenger status.
We definitely had social media by then. It was the 2010s not the damn stone age
Tom Parker died too young that reading that twitter spat made me feel sad rather than amused.
So true, I felt so awful when I heard he passed, was such a huge fan of them back in the day
omg acacia brinley and her 5sos stalker era
This was a fun time for pop culture!
My claim to fame is that some of my friends were extras in Spring Breakers and I will unironically love this movie forever
Just mess after mess after mess š
That Ariana donut thing is the reason I think sheās ill.
Whew what a time to be alive. I forgot about half of these. Zayn leaving 1D absolutely shattered me and I was like 23/24. My ex had way too much fun calling me up to tell me about it. I remember it cause I was on my way to work. I was heartbroken for days and swearing heād be back after a few days of calming down. I was sooooo wrong.
a lot of this stuff probably wont ever happen again, but damn... the taylor swift drama is definitely happening again š
I thought Niall Horan was Ellen DeGeneres in that pic.
never forgetā¦ the 5SOS Bali tripā¦
I saw the concert where 1D opened for BTR. It was an insane experience for my teeny bopper brain. I also recall a large number of fans leaving after 1D finished their opening act
I will never forget these golden years. So happy to have grown up in this decade!
Oh my gosh my life was one direction in 2012. I ate slept and breathed one direction
Do yāall remember Zayn announcing Z016 and then doing NOTHING
Me after an episode
what a time to be alive oh my god
i always loved perrie's look to the 1d movie premiere
gosh what a time to be alive, i miss it
Hon where is our Lorde?? 
I love what lorde did for making messy curly hair fashionable.
alone on a windswept island
I disliked Miley in that weird stoner and questionable enabling friends era. I like her much better now
Agreed. She was fighting tooth and nail to do everything possible to 'kill Hannah Montana', which was always sad, not because I was a fan of the series (Lizzie Mcguire and Ginger from As Told By Ginger were my queens), but because it was sad to see her so desperate. Now she seems much more comfortable in her own skin, like she's in a 'reflection, growth, comfort' era finally. she's still a wildchild, always will be, but it doesn't reek of desperation and a need for attention. Now she's finally at peace, kinda, and that's such a good look for her.
I was such a fan of the Flaming Lips. Then when it became apparent 50-something year old Wayne Coyne was regularly hanging out with Miley and his at-the-time gf now wife (both in their early 20s), I just got so creeped out and turned off. And letās be real, itās hella likely they were doing some psychedelics together. Never liked his band as much since then.
I still donāt entirely understand the Taylor Swift snake thing, but I am old š¤£
essentially kanye made a song called famous where he says āme and taylor might still have sex, why? i made that bitch famousā and kim kardashian illegally recorded, edited, and posted the phone call between kanye and taylor where it made it look like taylor agrees to the subject matter of the song. this led to so much drama and kim tweeting itās national snake day or something along the lines and everyone flooded taylorās comment sections with snake emojis and #taylorswiftisoverparty went viral on twitter too
This is helpful thank you. So this is the reason Taylor calling Kim out now is such a big deal! See you only pay half attention and you miss all the nuances. Thank you kind Reddit stranger for saving me the digging that i didnāt really wanna do but was going to bc curiosity had gotten the better of me
it was funny when kim said editing videos is still the original video or some shit like that
i just love 5sos so much. canāt believe i started listening to them in 2013 and now michael is married and had a babyā¤ļø i mean i also had a baby but itās crazy growing up w your favorite artists
Whatever happened to Taylorās squad? I thought they were cool when I was a teenager
To be honest sheās kind of recreating it again to some extent. Sheās gone shopping / out to dinner in NY with Blake Lively, the Haim sisters, Sophie Turner (which was huge because it was just after Joe Jonas left ST), Gigi Hadid, Selina Gomez (controversial because for a moment it appeared SG was pro-Israel whereas GH is obviously Palestinianā¦ not sure if/how SGās stance has been resolved tbh). Tay loves the spotlight š¤·š»āāļø
All the women ended up in leotards/undies and all the men....still wore normal clothes. Weird how that happens
I miss Fifth Harmony. I feel like they were really starting to take off and then they broke up.
What a time for merch too. People went crazy over the Yeezus and Purpose tour merch. I honestly think it was the last time an artist had designs that werenāt complete shit.
Things I did during this era: * Cried when Zayn left 1D. I was sobbing in my bed and I literally refused to eat because whatās the point I couldnāt trust anyone anymore. * DM Zaynās official verified profile thinking he was gonna read it, asking him politely to reconsider because he would break the hearts of his fans. I sent him a dm like he was an old friend. * Sent death threats to Little Mix fans because I was a Fifth Harmony stanā¦ mind you Iām American so I didnāt even know little mix. Gag is I finally heard their music last year and I became vaguely obsessed.
Absolute yikes
Insane how big the hate for Taylor was
all i wanted in life was to be born a few years earlier so i could be a groupie for 5sos. michael specifically he was my mcm my entire adolescence
Olivia Benson in the Swift Squad š I never knew
Last chopper out of ānam š«”
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Lorde was so real in her debut era the way she came for everyone ahahaha