#and that the successes and excitement of fitf release

[louisupdates]

I don't want to take the easy road too much. I think you can never be too comfortable as an artist. No matter how popular you are, that doesn't last forever.

But yeah, it’s a relief that the second album was more successful than the first, because it made me realise that it's okay to be who you are. I'm not a worrier, but like any other artist, I feel some anxiety and jitters before releasing an album. You put your whole heart and soul into it, you know? It would be strange not to feel that way. Anyway, if there is one thing I can say for sure, it is that I am very confident in the success of Faith in the Future, which I did the way I wanted. I am quite excited about how things turned out, and it has made me realize that the possibilities are endless.

- Louis, on FITF. For InRock Magazine, 14.4.23

[gracefullou]

I’ve been thinking about this and looking at peoples reactions on the setlist and the biggest problem to me is not 1D songs but the fact that there’s THREE 1D songs and like genuinely if I went to the festival and I saw him then afterwards I’d left with a feeling of “he doesn’t have enough solo songs”& “he’s still stuck on 1D” when it’s not true and we as the fans know that but the gp doesn’t.

Also I do understand him putting the songs that the gp knows and blah blah blah but well the gp knows jho (or at least some people) so he could’ve sang it instead of another 1D song or a cover which no one knows anyway. But overall I think Louis is stubborn and he won’t listen to us (esp since we’re such a small group of people lol) buuuut I’m really glad to see that the fans are saying very loud that they want more solo songs on the setlist because Louis deserves to know that his solo songs >1D songs and that people love them more so I hope he sees all the complains lmao

Hi, anon. I agree with everything you said. No matter the angle you see it from, it's not looking good. At first, i was disappointed solely for the fact that all these covers are taking up the place that fitf songs should've had. Simply bc i believe in its potential, i believe that every fitf song is so much better than any one direction song. I believe that no cover (one direction or not) is the key to win people over, but fitf is. Not in i'm a solo louie only his solo songs are good kind of way but bc it's the truth. Everytime the transition between a fitf song and a one direction one happens, i feel the dip in the quality. It's frankly striking. Fitf is my favorite album ever but also, i always make all my family and friends listen to Louis' music (usually not in an obvious fangirl way) and never has anyone said that this song is bad or that they didn't like it. On the contrary, most are now casual fans/ listeners and get excited along with me when a new release of his aporoaches. I also know what i felt/ thought when i heard fitf for the first time and that's why i have no doubt in my mind that an artist could not ask for a better representation. Fitf is EVERYTHING. I just wish Louis believed that too 😔. Anyway, the more that i think about it, the more obvious it becomes that Louis is waisting a lot of potential with his setlist choices. First of all, it doesn't send the message of a solo artist that is confident in his work. It can frankly paint him as the ambitionless loser from a dead band who can't move on from the break that the media (and some of his so called fans) try so hard to make people perceive him as. When in reality, he's been up to SO much since the pandemic. People respect ambition, they respect hunger for success and validation so why put yourself in a position where you can seem to not care enough? Larries and ot5s are horrible we know that (see how they're celebrating fucking seven of all things and then they have the audacity to claim that they love him and it's the toxic solos who don't respect his previous work 😬) but i can't help but feel that somewhere, sometimes Louis is responsable as well. Fans take cues from their "idols" and Louis is not helping with the three covers. I don't even know what he's trying to achieve with it 😭. Bc he does sing an awful lot of covers even at the tour shows when he knows the crowd is mainly his fans. Like the directioners that do show up now will show up even if he reduces the number of covers to one (and everyone will be happy then ☺️). He also needs to stop thinking too highly of 1D and assuming everyone is a fan. A lot of people are not. A lot of people don't even know their songs. It's been nine years, people move on. Today was the first time that i was left feeling a bit underwhelmed and not on a high after his set. It's one thing to sneak 4 covers on a regular tour set (it used to be less rip 💔) it's a whole other thing to fill it with those and leave your own beautiful songs off in a tight set like he has on those festivals and he needs to understand the difference ASAP. And it's not that he doesn't have "popular" songs under his belt. Back to you, just hold on, miss you are more than enough familiarity for any audience. Also, as much as he cares about "popularity" when it comes to 1D songs, he doesn't seem to care for the same for his own. Hello always you has over 100M streams on Spotify with no promo or playlisting and it's not even a single. Hoth, Chicago, angels fly, bigger than me are the most popular fitf songs after waoyf but they're nowhere to see on the setlist 😃. Instead of wdbhg why not reward fans with a favorite? Megamix is a clear fan favorite. Or defenceless as a nod to the fans' dedication and effort in 2020 for example? Or maybe he does reward them... With one dead songs 😭😭😭

[silverfoxlou]

Still mind boggling to me that we did this without promo in the uk it just goes to show how brilliant FITF is 🥹

No really. It's not even just the complete lack of promo - they were running articles with "Louis Tomlinson jealous of Harry Styles' success" as the headline the week the album came out, trying to make him look like some sore loser (when in fact he gave a thought response about an emotion that everyone feels - everyone gets jealous, it's natural and it doesn't mean it's malicious. but anyways I digress). And every time anyone talks about him it's as "the other one from 1D". And no one ever talks about his music, it's always what he can do for others...

And the weeks leading up to release, the fans were frustrated and angry at how poorly they were being treated by LTHQ and BMG while expecting the fans to carry all the "promo".

And yet the fans rallied. All it took was a damn good album and Louis expressing how proud he was of the music and how excited he was at the chance of a #1 album. And fans moved mountains to make Louis happy.

It shouldn't have happened. Louis wasn't supposed to beat Bruce Springsteen to a #1 album in the UK. But he did.

[statementlou]

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[lou-always-lou]

I'm soooo excited for the album I honestly cannot wait so I wanted to ask you to rank the song by the titles and what we know about them so far ! and you can add what do you expect from all of them if you have certain expectations

52 days. 52 days are left until the release of 'Faith in the future'. I can't wait. Maybe this album won't be a huge commercial success (unfortunately, this is more and more likely) but it will definitely be one of my favorite albums of all time. I won't elaborate on Louis' vocals, wiser heads have already written a lot about it. What strikes me most of all is that Louis has found joy in creating again, regained confidence that the music he is making now is the music he WANTS to make. Take me as I am or go away. This is the Louis I always want to see.

I don't listen to leaks, I wait for the official release, and judging by Bigger Than Me, it's worth the wait. Judging by the titles alone Silver Tongues and She is beauty we are world class are the songs I want to hear the most. But FITF will be an album without skips (forgive me Perfect Now), an album I'll play at full volume in the car with the windows open, album my neighbors will know it as well as I do (I apologize in advance though I'm not sorry).

Oh, I heard that Saturdays made people cry.... Give her to me please. There are so few good pop/rock ballads now that the world needs something heartstring-tugging.

I don't know if I answered your question, probably not really. One thing I know for sure, these 52 days don't go by fast enough.