I got a little surprise in my mailbox 😍

found on insta

Easter tutorial on how to make louis' 🍑

but I don’t feel like going home

Happy 28th to everyone who celebrates

duality of a man etc etc

✨ Superstar ✨

Sea, I am not sure you will agree with me but when I listen to the 1D guys solo music for the first time, I always feel that I may like the production of their songs, I may love some of their vocals but I really do not love the songs. I always feel let down by their creative vision. I feel like they wasted the potential on a mediocre song which I know will become a hit because the quality of the song doesn’t have much relevance.

When I listen to Louis’ songs on the other hand, I don’t always love the production, I sometimes don’t like the vocals but in most cases I like the song. I always feel like it was a song worth making.

I don’t know if anyone else has had that feeling. The songs always being interesting, pulling you in, making you feel something. The funny thing is that the songs I associate with the least are either his favourites or fan favourites like KMM or Written all over your face.

Interesting points!

I can only answer from my own experience. For Louis’ songs, I almost always love his voice, even if it isn’t technically amazing (sometimes the engineers/ producers overdo the auto tuning and the vocals sound muddy). I love that Louis sings with emotion, the way theater singers do, almost as if he’s telling a story, acting it out. I love the conversational, plaintive, “dialogue” aspect of the singing. It’s a little bit like old time folk songs or epics, each line telling new nuance or information.

I love that Louis’ songs show psychological intelligence. There’s seldom a cheap and lazy hook; the choruses and bridges always mean something. Even in his most “pop” songs like Back To You, the choruses mean something, and they often mean something deeper and more revealing at the end than at the beginning.

I talked about how High In California isn’t just a feel-good drug song, and it’s not just about nihilism or Dionysian freedom, but really about identity— the courage to be true to oneself despite the world judging, despite hardship and “blue” times of sadness— that safety and liberation can be just around the corner.

Similarly, Paradise, despite the title, isn’t really about escape or fantasy, but about grounding oneself, finding one’s way— righting the horizon so that the path you set for yourself is filled with purpose, no matter the detours. Purpose is paradise. The means of reaching one’s goals are as relevant as the goals themselves; don’t get discouraged because things seem easier for other people.

(Louis is a Homeric songwriter, always writing about his own difficult journey home.)

Louis once made a lyric video for Just Like You that showed that our troubles are all similar; people of all ages feel the same kinds of emotions. This is why young children and old people all love his songs. This is why seeing him perform can be such an intensely emotional experience— because he is, in a way, telling our stories too.

At times, it is fun to slide into Louis’ mind and enjoy the adrenaline-fueled chaos. He is such a fun person, the life of the party, and has songs that show it. These tend to be the less introspective songs, but that’s ok too.

mine would probs be: one direction, taylor swift, ed sheeran, the script and coldplay 

I cannot imagine everything that Louis has experienced in relation to his self-confidence and on top of that the immense pain that represents what he has experienced with his family. I admire him so much and he inspires me when he gives messages to keep going because in him they're not empty words of self-help but rather they're words of a wise man who has lived a lot and did not let himself sink. I love him.

Louies love Louis for himself. And it’s for life.

Louis Tomlinson and his mic

That's it.

maybe i’m mistaken but.. the way the media treats louis has changed a bit. (not necessarily in a Good way just. different?) hear me out.. i was reading this shitty daily mail article that talked about harry’s 30th - and ofc it was filled with all kinds of daily mail typical nonsense. but when it predictably started listing off the “shortcomings” of the other 1d members and how they weren’t nearly as worthy of having their ass kissed as harry, louis’ bit wasn’t as bad as the others..? especially compared to the way they focused on liam’s alcoholism and had several paragraphs dedicated to insulting zayn.

they described him as “pint sized” and said his venues were “noticeably smaller than harry’s” (which, no fucking shit? holo was in the works starting back in 2013). the worst part was alluding to jay and fizzy’s deaths being some kind of “one direction curse”. other than that though - no mention of freddie, the airport arrest, the chile leak (which.. didn’t DM leak that..?), beef with H, tiffs with journalists, etc.

i just think it’s super weird that the worst insults they could come up with were calling him tiny and comparing his tour to H’s? it’s almost like the strategy they’ve collectively taken in the last year-ish is to downplay his success and aid in the gp not taking his solo career seriously (by minimizing any of his solo accomplishments/focusing on 1d/sexualizing or objectifying him) rather than being outright insulting and aggressive and throwing vitriol at him hoping he breaks.

could also just be that they were too busy lavishing so much nauseating praise on H that they surpassed their word count or they wanted to insinuate that louis was forgettable or not worth their time, but idk!

hate to give them clicks but here’s the link if you want to read it in full:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/usshowbiz/article-13032513/Why-Harry-Styless-friends-urging-settle-married-babies-30th-birthday-today-lives-incognito-life-London-Canadian-model-Taylor-Russell.html?ito=native_share_article-top

First, it’s actually very on-brand for an article about Harry Styles’ birthday to consist mostly of insults about the other 1D guys. The fact that this is 2024 but media still feel the need to do this belies the hollowness of the Harry Styles hype.

After three years of build-up in 1D (2013-15) and eight years of industry propping him up, giving Harry Styles the access to the biggest songwriters and producers in the industry, the best venues money and power can buy, Azoff clients and adjacent saying his farts don’t smell, movie roles handed to him on a silver platter, with Christopher Nolan no less?, iconic Phoebe Waller-Bridges making a music video with him, Chloe Zhao saying he’s the second coming of Christ, Bono loving him more than his own child, even Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus wanting to work with him, bought Grammys over Beyoncé etc., and this is the best they can do for his birthday? That Harry is “better than the rest of 1D”?

DM sounds a little like Harries on Twitter boasting about Harry Styles’ streams, or his wealth, or his Grammys and stadium tours, all of which amounts to the same boast: look what industry can create.

Look what they did with someone so white, bland, and pretty. Look at the money machine they built from a guy so vaguely defined as to have no identity at all. Harry Styles says nothing, supports nothing, sings about nothing, stands for nothing. Harry’s convictions are those of Jeff Azoff & friends. He truly lives up to his name: all style, absolutely no substance.

But Harry has… numbers. Harries (and media) cling onto numbers like peasants worshipping the god of hard currency. They love that money. The way they boast about Harry’s numbers is a little scary, to be honest. It suggests that there’s nothing else they like about him.

We can also tell, nine years later, that Harry isn’t the deep-thinking romantic poet he was painted to be, the one who cared about social issues and community, the one who thought deeply about human relationships and love, the one who cared for his fans enough to speak to us like family, to treat us with care, to do one-on-one fan service, to look genuinely happy in our presence, to look and act grateful even as those words pass his lips onstage AND off, to measure the people he works with with genuine, heartfelt friendship and not only because of their power and influence.

Because it’s very clear, nine years later, who that person in One Direction was. It’s the guy who never put 1D down, who, despite everything that has happened since, values the journey and can articulate it with all of the bittersweet authenticity to his experience. It’s the guy whose album was delayed for years because his first solo single competed a little too hard with Harry’s.

To your other point about press being nicer to Louis this year, other people have noticed the same thing, that Louis has been winning touring awards and other peripheral awards not central to the music industry. He isn’t going to walk the Brits or Grammys red carpet, and he won’t be nominated for VMAs or Aria awards.

But Louis isn’t even supposed to have a solo performing career in 2024. After 2017, the industry shut him out of radio and streaming. Faith In The Future was shut out of critical reviews. He started touring with a 1500 capacity venue. He isn’t supposed to be able to sell arenas, let alone stadiums. He wasn’t supposed to set a livestream world record— not when Niall did one the same year. Louis isn’t supposed to be friends with indie musicians, or have a reputation as “rock ‘n roll royalty”— having been shut out of the BBC. He isn’t supposed to tour the biggest venues in Australia. He isn’t supposed to sell arenas in Poland or Romania or Finland or Turkey. He isn’t supposed to create his own festival, give fans the first festival completely free, and showcase young, upcoming bands. Louis wasn’t supposed to be in the position to nurture any band, was he? He was supposed to be ancient history by now. They all were supposed to kneel before the legendary Harry Styles and disappear.

But Louis is selling upwards of 700k tickets for his second tour, and here we are, Harries following his every move, Larries relying on him to launder Harry’s image, and DM having to acknowledge that Louis is successfully, happily touring and making music on his own terms, with his own employees, singing his own lyrics to his enthralled audiences. He doesn’t take the bait to compare himself to his bandmates, nor relive old fights, nor stir up band controversy. He doesn’t talk badly about the other men’s relationships or families. He’s the only one who has watched Niall’s and Liam’s concerts and publicly supports all the guys’ careers. If the worst they can say is that Louis isn’t Harry Styles, thank God he isn’t. Thank god he stayed himself, went through the fires and came out better. One Direction mythology has eroded over the years, but at least Louis remained good, inside and out. Not perfect, but human, trying, and genuinely, actually good.

Who really knows why media can show some positivity to Louis now. I am cautious about any real change. I guess the rest of 2024 will be revealing. I’ve been waiting for so long that I don’t really expect anything different. We’ll see.

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Happy Valentine's my love 💓

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