They’re also little more than a cuteness delivery system with interchangeable parts, which is the sort of thing that should worry the band. The ratio of good songs to inoffensive filler is refreshingly high, though 1D has yet to place a song on Boy Band Mount Rushmore alongside “I Want It That Way” and “End of the Road.” These boys have never made a great song, which is the sort of thing that should worry pop-culture historians. One Direction members are credited with co-writing nearly every track, the songs are expertly made, impressively (sometimes very impressively) sung, nominally more adult and in every way quite decent, which is all they need to be. “Midnight Memories” faithfully executes its third-album duties.
The third album is the one where the group asserts its independence from handlers, professes a greater interest in writing its own songs and experiments with PG-13 subject material and a more mature sound.Įverything usually starts falling apart after that. The second album (“ Take Me Home,” 2012) is a careful re-staging of the first album, which solidifies the band’s reign. But once it starts, it always goes the same way: The first album (“ Up All Night,” 2011) is the out-of-nowhere breakthrough. These boys began as contestants on the British version of “The X Factor” (finishing in third place) instead of being forged in Lou Pearlman’s Orlando Finishing School in the manner of obvious ancestors Backstreet Boys and ’N Sync. Years from now, we’ll look back on One Direction’s third release, “ Midnight Memories,” as the band’s last album before everything was ruined.Įverybody knows that One Direction is simply the latest bunch of boys in a long line of boys - young men with no pedigree, lots of charm and just enough talent, a lineage that stretches back to the Monkees.
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