Dear Mysterious Bad
Lions Blogger,
I wonder if I could
make another submission. To "get" how bad these lions are you might
have to know something about the teen pop sensation "One Direction".
Whilst I'm certain that a blogger of your class must never have come across
them, I thought it was worth sending them in just in case.
If you don't
know, One Direction are a boy band consisting of members Niall Horan, Zayn
Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They signed to Simon
Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and placing third in the
seventh series of The X Factor. In November 2011, One Direction released their debut album Up All
Night, which became the fastest-selling debut album in the UK of 2011. In
2012, it debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making One Direction
the first UK group in history to debut at number one with their first album in
the country. Up All Night spawned the Official UK Singles Chart top ten singles
— "What Makes You Beautiful", "Gotta Be You", and "One
Thing". In 2012, "What Makes You Beautiful" won the BRIT Award
for Best British Single.
One Direction's world
tour is set for 2013, with tickets grossing US$15.7 million for their
Australian and New Zealand dates. Offhand, I would say that they have been
described as sparking a resurgence in the boy band concept, and of forming part
of a new "British Invasion" in the United States.
They are not lions.
