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These guys... the most successful pop group of the world and they can't even make a video that is not about them just hanging out or goofing around. I don't wanna be negative, I don't wanna be the kind of person that drags acts just because they cater to teen girls, kids or whatever. I wish they were different but it's like they have nothing to say.
I was watching Liam twitter feed and well, his description just says it all "99% of the time I have no idea what's going on" and I feel like that's the truth about the group, they have this big machine behind them pumping their music at turbo and they're just guys who sing, took a chance and made it big but it's not even like the Backstreet Boys who knew how to dance, put on a performance, drop a big quality video like 'Everybody' and had these amazing pop songs. These guys just hang out in all their videos, yeah they choose different places and stuff to entertain but damn it's like what I wanna say is:
They're weak performers, their music is weak pop and they don't have any artistry to express something besides hitting the notes their songwriters and producers tell them to hit.
Sounds harsh but I really want to find redeeming qualities about them, they're kinda charismatic but really I don't know, that little piano line in 'Steal My Girl' is so overused, I think I haven't heard a song by them as catchy and good like 'What Makes You Beautiful', well there's 'Best Song Ever' but it heavily samples 'Baba O'Riley' by The Who so I don't know if the machine behind them thinks they have potential for more, but then again what would more be? I'd be content with better songs, but Nicki Minaj could come up with an interesting and fun concept for the 'Anaconda' video and it's just a song about ass, also Miley could catapult her ballad with a concept just based on the title of her song and made a strong video. One Direction? Yet another video with random stuff thrown together.
I may be wrong and I take back that thing I said about them being weak and the rest of that sentence. They might just wanna be that, a simple pop group that has fun, they're hella successful but whatever, good for them and hope they still succeed.
Anyway, it's been like 4 days and the 'Steal My Girl' views are at 12 million, so I guess they really haven't broken the record, kudos to them if they really did.
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