Tim: This isn’t a current single; in fact, it’ll probably never be a single at all as it was an iTunes bonus track off their most recent album. However, let’s write about it now, because to be honest there’s not a lot of music I can find right now that seems worth covering after tracks that begin with a 7’8″ Ukrainian giant, but this is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnpUtYcgVE
Tim: Top of the range pop music, I think you’ll agree.
Tom: When you’re the biggest boy band in the world, your team get the pick of every songwriter and producer in the world: even your iTunes album tracks are top-quality pop music.
Tim: Very true. A banging instrumental, a chorus with multiple memorable hooks in it and a basically nonexistent middle eight that automatically make the final section seem amazing. Top that off with lyrics about lipstick taste that are weirdly intimate, and you’ve got yourself a nearly flawless track, I reckon.
Tom: How do you compete with that? You have to step outside the formula: if you’re trying to be like One Direction, you can never quite match up. (We’re looking at you, Levine and Bannatyne.)
Tim: Weird side note: looking for this, I found a YouTube channel with “official” music videos for various One Direction album tracks such as this; they’re entirely fan made from actual footage of the band singing other songs, put together so it looks vaguely like they’re singing this. Some people are weird. Just, really weird.