WHO ARE: New Elizabethans
One Direction
One Direction are an English and Irish boyband who were put together in 2010 at bootcamp on ITV's XFactor and came third in the competition.
In just 4 years Harry, Niall, Liam, Louis and Zayn have helped to shape and sculpt the music industry of the 21st Century and are one of the biggest boybands on the planet! From being on the Xfactor and having the initial fan base of around 200 fans which continued to grow week after week and even after they were illuminated from the show they continued to gain support which then grew and headed across Europe before they even released any new singles.
One Direction were signed to Simon Cowell's record label- Syco Entertainment with a multimillion pound deal and thats when there careers took off!
Within the first few months of releasing there first UK album the boys were beginning to gain international success and once they released there second album Take Me Home they found themselves cracking the American Music Industry. Since then they have released the album "Midnight Memories" in 2013 which has had a monumental amount of success and accompanied with their international Where We Are Stadium Tour in 2014 at 60,000+ capacity for 72 dates shows they are hugely successful in there careers and highly respected by others in the music industry but the biggest thing that matters to them and in every interview they do is that without the huge following of fans that they have and have gained over the 4 years none of there success would be anywhere near as big or possible, There fans adore them and respect everything that they do, One Direction fans are truly loyal and have helped them achieve a huge 91 number ones sold and more than 45 million records sold worldwide.
The strange thing is though, that they are all from normal working class backgrounds and have grounded families that have never been in the spotlight. Yet they deal with the fame and continuous following of paparazzi amazingly and still see themselves as 5 normal boys just with an abnormal career, they never let the fame go to there heads.
One Direction are also highly charity motivated and support and get involved with any good cause they can. In 2013 they released there charity single and video which was a cover of One Way Or Another and Teenage Kicks for Comic Relief filmed on handheld cameras in different places around the globe as the money they would have used to produce the music video were donated towards Comic Relief and proceeds from purchases of the single on iTunes also went towards the charity.
I could go on about what makes them so amazing and successful but I would be here forever.
I personally feel and I doubt everyone would agree. One Direction do reflect the Elizabethans in an odd way by how they are respected by others in the music industry and to be honest the entertainment industry as a whole, everyone know who they are and know about there huge global success. I feel they have a few things in common with Elizabethans one being that they fan base are extremely loyal and respectful to them just like how the people of the 1500 idolised and were continuously loyal to Queen Elizabeth and supported her reign on the country.
I also think One Direction have a huge influence on the younger generation of the 21st century similar to how Queen Elizabeth had a huge influence on the people of her time.
Also im a huge One Direction fan anyway so this blog post may seem to be slightly biased to people who don't particularly like them and see the big deal but I feel like if you look into them as a band, there achievements and what they've tried to do and give back to the UK and to their fanbase I think you'd be surprised how much they want to involved in campaigns and charities that will help to benefit others and all of the hard work that they put into everything that they do.
Here a picture of my tickets for the Manchester date that they performed at in May 2014!!
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