#also my mcdonalds order is a vegitarian egg mccmuffin a fruit cup and a diet coke

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🥤 Thurs Sept 10 🎸

Louis’ milkshakes bring ALLLL the boys to the yard, apparently! Almost five years ago, the boys went on James Corden’s carpool karaoke segment, stopped by a McDonalds, and ordered some food. That footage has never been seen before, despite years of fan requests. It STILL has never been seen in its entirety, but we’ll get to that.

Yesterday, Ben Winston went on twitter to engage with three year old tweets, hinting that he might release the footage. Then, because it wasn’t odd enough, the Late Late Show With James Corden got involved, and seemed to confirm that something WOULD be happening on the show. So fans stayed up to watch, and wait. Then, once the show started, James (wearing a honeybee pin on his tie) shot down the idea of kidnapping the boys to put the band back together (“they’re a boy band, not Humpty Dumpty!”), but played a highly edited segment of public and previously unseen footage of the band on the Late Late Show.

The unseen footage included a ten second reel of what must’ve been 15 minutes or so at a drive through. Niall got a Big Mac, Liam got chicken nuggets, Harry got an iced tea, and Louis got an Egg McMuffin with sausage, two hash browns, and the infamous milkshake. Why is this milkshake so notorious? Well, because a clever McDonalds worker took a picture of the band as they rolled through the McDonalds, and Harry could be seen sipping on the milkshake.

In this new footage, Louis ordered the milkshake, took a sip, and handed it back to the McDonald’s employee (“I don’t want this, actually, darling, could you take it back?”). Harry can be seen drinking his tea with a displeased expression, and munching on a hash brown. Wait, what? Didn’t Harry only order the ice tea, you’re asking. And you’re right! Louis, apparently, ordered two hashbrowns and happily handed one over to his mortal enemy! Wow, clearly they can’t stand each other, I don’t know what to tell you *shrug*.

It is very important for me to note that although this is clearly the sequence of events that took place, due to the other pictures that we have and the footage that they themselves released, they did not SHOW any of this. It was, again, a highly edited clip with tons of jump cuts for a really mundane action. Why did Ben Winston feel the need to cut out all interaction between these to ~super straight hetero bros~ band mates? Well, I guess make your own conclusions.

And speaking of odd occurrences and forming conclusions, let’s talk about signed bright red guitars! About a month ago, Harry signed a guitar and donated it to MusiCares COVID relief auction. It was expected to sell for anywhere from $3000 - $5000. It sold for $28000. Well, $28,125 to be precise. It was an anonymous auction, and there were six other bids on the guitar. The money has all gone to the relief fund, and the guitar has gone (or is on its way) to its new home. In completely unrelated news, I’m certainly going to be eyeing Louis’ guitar collection from here on out.

Meanwhile, Liam released his “cosmic” Midnight music video, which is a highly stylized, socially distanced performance of the song over a green screen, which was turned into the collections of stars and planets and supernovae dancing around Liam and Alesso. I have to say that regardless of my feelings on the video, Liam’s voice always leaves me speechless, and that song has been playing on loop since I watched the video. Can’t wait to see what’s next from him!

And in other music news, Zayn (or his team) added the radio edit of Dusk ‘Til Dawn ft. Sia to Icarus Falls on Spotify! They had previously added a longer version of the song, which had been streamed less, so the new addition of the Radio Edit brought Icarus Fall’s total streams to over 2 billion! WILD!! This does seem to be a lead up to something, as Zayn took to Instagram to post a Polaroid of his back tat, captioned “Got some stuff to show ya soon!”. I. LITERALLY. CANNOT. WAIT.