Take Me Home

The cyclical nature of the story when it comes to pop music, is even more pronounced: each generation of teenagers idols that will be taken for a ride by a generation of adults. Then teens get older and idols, with maturity and nostalgia in equal measure, are re-evaluated and reclassified: sometimes there is a place for them in the history of music and find out what they told of their (and our) ti... read more

N.B. There are special little rewards in heaven for those of you who can untangle my clever little allusions. ^^ (And, sometimes I write paragraphs out of order, if you can pull something out of that.... Or, shove something into it, I guess.)

{If you want really specific song-by-song blow-by-blow, skip to the end.}

There are a lot of different kinds of music, but I'm... read more

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Description: 'Take Me Home' sees One Direction collaborating with a whole host of first class writers and producers. As well as reuniting with the likes of Rami Yacoub & Carl Falk and Savan Kotecha, Ed Sheeran and McFly's Tom Fletcher, the record features input from Dr Luke, Shellback and Toby Gad. One Direction made US Chart history again by achieving the highest selling first week single sales by a UK artist with "Live While We're Young." The lead single from TAKE ME HOME entered the Billboard Digital Track and Song Charts at #1 with over 341k sold in its first week making it the biggest opening week sales for a single by a 'Take Me Home' sees One Direction collaborating with a whole host of first class writers and producers. As well as reuniting with the likes of Rami Yacoub & Carl Falk and Savan Kotecha, Ed Sheeran and McFly's Tom Fletcher, the record features input from Dr Luke, Shellback and Toby Gad.

One Direction made US Chart history again by achieving the highest selling first week single sales by a UK artist with "Live While We're Young." The lead single from TAKE ME HOME entered the Billboard Digital Track and Song Charts at #1 with over 341k sold in its first week making it the biggest opening week sales for a single by a non-US artist ever. ... (more) (less)