glycerineclown:

Here’s the deal. I’m a shameless nerd, so when I care about something, I talk about it. I also like for people to understand why I feel the way I do about things, whether that’s being informed about politics, or whatever. I also pride myself on having decent and intelligent taste in music, although I understand guilty pleasures and I understand sentimental childhood bubblegum pop. I know how to take things at face value, how to judge and compare art within its own genre, and I understand liking something because it makes you happy regardless of its technical quality, at least within reason.

And so that’s why I feel that I must make a text post about my feelings regarding a Simon-Cowell-manufactured boyband named One Direction that is making everyone scream at earsplitting decibels and despite my resistance has crawled in under the wire of my college-aged, music-snob brain.

1. They can actually perform live, which is a serious plus. The acoustic version of “One Thing” is what ultimately won me over about looking into 1D.
2. Up All Night is actually a really decent pop record. A few of the songs have a bit too much synth for my taste, but the rest? If I love at least half of the tracks and it’s a boyband record? It’s gold, okay? Extremely catchy. I can’t remember the last time I listened to “Tell Me A Lie” and didn’t immediately restart it when it was over.
3. They have more blatant homoeroticism than Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law combined. It’s the fucking truth. Part of that is the UK thing, I think, but they’re attached at the hip and it’s so obvious that they all care a great deal about each other.
4. Their stylist should be given a standing ovation—she dresses them so well, in very well-fitted, classy, buttoned-up clothing. I love it, and it won’t be embarrassing when they look back at photos in ten years.
5. They talk about sex easily and normally, and Harry Styles is a feminist.
6. There’s a boy for every archetypal category and ‘The Ugly One’ does not exist. However, they are also cute and young and innocent enough that you can look at them as puppies instead of sex objects if you’d prefer. Although I have some trouble doing that with Zayn Malik.
7. They don’t have choreographed dance routines, which I find hysterical.
8. Nostalgia overload. Their charm takes me back to 1998 mentally, running around with the Backstreet Boys’ self-titled in my Philips portable CD player.
9. Larry Stylinson—Harry and Louis seriously need to get married. They have the sweetest interactions, to the point that it actually boggles my mind that they’re even real. 
10. They have more patience, grace and generosity with screaming teenage fangirls than I could ever have.

Honestly, I’m so sad that my niece is only seven. I want her to love them so badly, I want to replace Justin Bieber with them in her heart, but One Direction should not be a kiddie band. They are not the Jonas Brothers and they are not squeaky-clean. They have naked pictures on the internet and they are British lads who drink. They are talented, funny people with dirty minds and who make me smile.

And that is why I admit it. I love One Direction.

• First I woke up and found out I have plans to watch The Hunger Games. 
• Then I found out I’m invited to a wedding (excited but makes me feel old)
• Then I realized that my spring break is during the same time as the UC kids so you know that mean party!!!!!! (which really means bonding over televsion shows)
• And of course ONE DIRECTION WINNING A BRIT AWARD! Such a good day. 

district-12-directioner: