#fitf 1 year

[lou-always-lou]

Faith in the Future is one year today. It seems as if I heard it for the first time yesterday, and at the same time as if it had been with me all my life. Thanks Louis for a companion in my daily struggles, and for the note of optimism your music brings to even my darkest days.

I hope Louis you realise that my expectations of lt3 are really high. After all, it was you who said that the artist gets better with every album 😁

[sheisbeautyweareworldass]

FAITH IN THE FUTURE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY:

fitf songs as tumblr posts:

[zaynontour]

NOVEMBER 11, 2022 || FAITH IN THE FUTURE

spotify | apple music | amazon music

[parisandroma]

Happy first anniversary FITF

I love you with all my heart.

[jimmstiel]

when the fuck did i black out and listen to the Encanto soundtrack 21 TIMES 😂😂

[justthinkingaboutlouis]

I must have streamed BTM too much when it was released. This song is always at the top. I do love it but I didn't think it will be at No #1. When you listen to the album chronologically track 1 always makes it to the top. OOMS my beloved <3333333

[thewhitecitrus]

Hello! I hope you’re doing well. The one year anniversary of Faith In The Future is this Saturday! What are your top 5 songs from the album?

Silver Tongues

Chicago

Written All Over Your Face

Lucky Again

Angels Fly

[dreamings-free]

By Will Richards | 23rd June 2023

More than 90 Louis Tomlinson fans were injured and seven hospitalised after a severe hail storm at his gig at Red Rocks this week.

Tomlinson is currently on a North American headline tour in support of his second solo album ‘Faith In The Future’, and played the iconic Colorado venue on Wednesday night (June 21).

During the show, a massive hail storm occurred, with local fire rescue services saying that “tennis ball-size” hail led to multiple hospitalisations with injuries ranging from broken bones to cuts and bruises.

After an initial delay, the show was eventually postponed, with Red Rocks telling fans: We are currently in a weather delay. Please seek shelter in your vehicle and we’ll let you know when we’ve received the all clear.”

The all clear was then given for fans to return to the venue, but the show was then officially postponed later.

After the show, Tomlinson wrote on Twitter: “Devastated about the show tonight, hope everyone’s ok, I’ll be back! Even though we didn’t play the show I felt all of your passion! Sending you all love!”

After the show, the venue told fans: “We want to take a moment to acknowledge the severe weather event at Red Rocks last night and offer our sincere best wishes to everyone affected by last night’s storms across Colorado.

“We hope to see Louis Tomlinson and his fans back soon under clear Colorado skies – we know this was supposed to be a special night and many of you traveled long distances to be here, which makes decisions regarding the postponement or cancellation of shows even harder.”

They added: “The Red Rocks crew would like to thank the teams at West Metro Fire, Stadium Medical, Argus, Aramark, Denver Fire, Denver Police, the Mountain Parks Rangers, our own staff and fans for their work and cooperation in a fast-developing situation.

“That’s part of the Red Rocks story, as are our fans who we’re lucky to have along for the ride.”

Red Rocks said they hope to see Tomlinson back at Red Rocks for a replacement show soon.

The former One Direction singer began his US tour last month by sharing a cover of Arctic Monkeys classic ‘505’.

[beccasafan]

Password-Protected Pages (aka you're not missing anything...)

So the passwords for the pages are loaded into your browser rather than being something the server checks, which means I can just grab what the passwords are and gain access. So without further ado (no really, there's no ado here...)

The main page content:

The pre-save is what y'all have already done

Listen / FITF Deluxe is the 2022 release

AFHF (see below)

FITF - 1 Year On is the site we've already seen

Live goes to the tour section on Louis' main website

The AFHF link goes to another password-protected (diff password) page that asks you where you want AFHF24 to be, so that's not helpful at this point...

So uh yeah. These just seem to be old / outdated pages that they tossed behind a password instead of making them useful / current. No clue why they left the main page as the starting point for launching the app-loads-a-website shortcut for your homescreen if they didn't want people hitting that page lol.

I'll keep checking to see if these pages get updates, but as of now, knowing the 2 passwords are useless.

[pop-punklouis]

I feel it's not fair at all, poppunk is not my type, On the other hand, I love Louis's voice in 1d songs, and back to you , and couple songs from walls album. And that's it, I don't have anything new to listen to from him. I know this is my problem and my musical taste and it's not Louis's fault. But come on do something like back to you that more people loved it, what's wrong with that? If we want to be logical pop punk has its own fans but they are in the minority.

I know his prejudice fans always says, that's fine, he'll be fine, don't worry about him, let Louis be for us, we don't want to share him, becoming number one is not his goal, but isn't it? Wasn't he happy when he was number one in the UK? I know the fans made it , but it's not like Louis said I'd be upset if I became number one and I don't want it and I refuse to accept it.

He says he doesn't care about commercial success, but who wouldn't want that. When you have the ability and talent, what's wrong with using it and singing a song that will bring everyone's attention to you? I really don't understand why Louis doesn't want to sing something that is popular with the majority of society?

1) this is such a weirdly self-serving ask of an artist like: “create music i want to listen to. if not, i cant listen to it and you’re not going to be successful.” perhaps, louis isn’t making music for you but for himself and if that isn’t for you, that’s fine. but that doesn’t mean he isn’t successful…..?

2) louis made mainstream pop music with one direction for five years. and tried his own hand at it for the first half of his solo career. he’d been in that world for a decade. and for his solo career, it wasn’t really that successful. and most importantly he wasn’t happy??

3) louis has made it abundantly clear that he didn’t want to make pop music. that his heart belonged in the indie rock/pop-punk scene. and always has. there’s been remnants of that in his style, his interests, and some of his music for years. he’s given countless interviews and talked himself about the pressure that was put on him to dress up as someone he wasn’t with these major record labels. to hide his accent. to create radio friendly music. to be a puppet on a string for them. he wasted years of his career dealing with that pressure and those contracts.

4) FITF, an album that was created as the most authentic body of work he’s released yet, is what got him the number one. it wasn’t walls. it wasn’t any of the strictly EDM work he released. it was FITF. it was an album that featured the sound that he loves and wants to strive towards going forward. it was louis clear vision babe.

5) louis has seen a growth in his career and his venue sizes that is exponential in just one year. and this isn’t because he’s releasing mainstream pop music. it’s because he’s being authentically him. his music is better. his tour is bigger. his presence is brighter. it’s gravitating so much good his way because of the content he’s creating and how it’s translating to his crowds and him as an artist. he’s a much more confident person than he was just a couple years ago. he’s a much more self-assured person.

6) FITF is part of the reason he’s being booked for these festivals now. it allowed him the growth in his fanbase and live shows to attract fests. if he was still creating music like Walls, i’m not sure if it would be shaking out the same way. and with how his music sounds now, it is open to attracting new fans especially in these big festival settings. most of the songs from walls don’t have the capacity to do that. and that’s just the reality.

7) there isnt just one metric of success. success has many different forms. numbers and charts aren’t the only way to succeed. and louis has lived in that world of success. he’s done all of those things. he’s hit those milestones. they feel good, but they aren’t a driving force behind why he does what he does. he does what he’s doing now because he’s finally being able to show who he is sonically. who he is as a lyricist. who he wants to continue growing into going forward in his career. he’s succeeding through his own journey in the industry. and he’s doing a damn good job controlling that for himself.

8) there’s nothing wrong with pop music. i love pop music. there’s a reason why pop music is popular. but asking your favorite artist to reshape who they’ve steadily been building themselves to be all because you don’t like the sound and you think they need to follow a one-dimensional version of success is….. sad lmao he has worked so hard to be where he is. to feel authentic in the music he’s putting out. and for someone to be like “um anyways i don’t like this. go back to what you were trying so hard to not be. i liked your music better that way” is just ????

9) indie-rock isn’t unsuccessful. it isn’t dead. it’s very alive and successful. genres don’t have to be pop or mainstream to be successful. give music much more credit than that, please.

[dancewithlou]

Sometimes I think about it especially when we get new announcements or achievements especially right now with the stadium tour in LATAM and with the headlining the festival in Mexico next year, I thought about it when he got to number 1 with FITF, I thought about it when he was doing arenas in Europe.

But I’ve been thinking a blacklisted artist should not be succeeding this much, they have tried so much to quiet Louis and his career yet here he is going leaps and bounds above others, this is why numbers on dumb apps in your phone to demonstrate streams won’t really hold any real true significance atp (yes I’m aware they’re still important and helpful however we’re seeing that numbers aren’t everything) because according to his Spotify this shouldn’t be happening and yet here he is pissing off all the people that wanted him to fail.

Yes his career might not look like others and it may be frustrating at times but at the same time his career will never look like other artists because of the unique situation he’s been in and is still in. I’d like to see other artists be put in his position and get to where he is, it shouldn’t be possible but he’s proven that it in fact is possible.

Karma is Louis boyfriend fr.

[zaynontour]

we made it hits different tonight. a year of fitf. two world tours, a no. 1 album, performing in arena shows, set for stadiums next year. yeah, we made it!! ✨❤️

[savebylou]

The decisions he has made make him get two solo succesful albums, two world tours, 4 afhf festivals, his own clothing line, booking like 18 music festivals in different countries this year. - I’m sorry but no, Louis made so many terrible decisions and he lost a lot of fans because of that and the fact that he still can tour/the fact that his album was n.1 etc it’s all on the fans, not on Louis, and definitely not on his team. He’s winning despite his self-sabotage&his team incompetence and not because of that.

And no one’s asking for him to stop singing 1D songs but 1-2 songs are enough, not three songs in the 10 songs setlist when he has two solo albums+FITF was specifically promoted as an album for the live shows.

Hi anon. There is a lot of topics here so I did write a long response sorry in advanced.

Yes Louis had achieve many great things thanks to the support of the fans but this is not giving just because of his existance, he has getting support because he puts work behind it, he makes good albums, beautiful songs, his performance is amazing, his band is fantastic, he plans a great show to perfom in his tour with different elements between a good setlist, screen graphics, lights, pyro etc. And this is possible because of his team's work as well.

He makes livestreams, his own festival, his clothing line, he does so many interviews to promote his album, he does album signings and see sometimes fans after a show, he takes photos with fans even if he is tired. That is a lot of work and is important to remember it.

Fans wouldn't go to his shows or buy his music if he didn't have something special that they want to hear or see. The artist show who he is and shares his craft and then the fans support it.

About his terrible decisions and the self sabotage, that is very vague so I don't know how to respond to that with more details. Yes he has lost fans, but he still haves a lot of fans support otherwise he couldn't keep making this amazing things he has done over the years. And he has achieve those things thanks to his hard work and his team's work, they book the festivals, they plan the tour, etc.

His team work really hard and ultimately Louis is the boss, the team work for him, if you criticize his team your are criticizing Louis, they don't work without Louis' decision making. He knows what he wants, but he is dealing with a music industry that promotes pop music and artists with big labels, is a difficult market to navigate with when he is trying to go for a different genre of music and dealing with the lack of support on radio.

But I think this festival era is such a good move for him, he is showing his music to new audiences.

About the 3 songs of 1D I think fans are making a big deal out of this, he still sing a lot of important songs of his own and is a festival he needs to share popular songs as well as new songs so new people get interested. Is a smart move to sing 1D songs, Night Changes is the most stream song of 1D, at the time I check it has on spotify 1, 563,210,935 & Drag me down has 1,131,128,488, I don't know how many WDBHG but I imagine a lot.

I invite you to read the tags of this post that Ingrid made bacause explain why is so smart the setlist.

I just think sometimes the fact that Louis is so down to earth and sweet make fans think they have the right to say how he has to navigate his career and cross the line trying to reach his team & to delivered their unsolicited opinions like they did with Krystle or Matt Vines, which I think they are really awful comments and I don't even want to see the posts to read more of that.

What makes me sad is to think Louis could see those comments instead of the ones that are celebrating this huge achievement.

Is fine if you don't agree with his setlist but is his second festival of so many, I think we should focus on celebrating how happy he was performing even though he felt insecure at the beginning. Louis after this festival era will be even more confident and will bring more new fans along the way which is a wonderful thing.

I think anyone can disagree with Louis at some point, but is his life and his journey, we will never learn the reasons behind most of his decisions and I think to follow Louis and his journey we have to accept that there will be moments like that and that is ok. Just enjoy the things that you like and take distance from the things that you don't enjoy or disagree with, if you don't like that he performs the 1D songs just don't hear it and move on. He will do what he wants to do regardless of fans' opinions, is his show and this is how he wants his setlist to be.

He share so many of him with us, I'm just thankful we still have the festivals to look for, after the festivals we will have to wait for a while to see him perform again.

I hope you have a great day.

[so-idialed-9]

Obviously this is just an iPhone conspiracy right?

Louis wore Aime Leon Dore to perform and to greet fans tonight, the 1 year anniversaryof FITF release. Though the brand is named after a version of 'love' plus the owner's father's name and part of his own, it DOES translate to something like Loved Gold Lion.

A year ago, on the night of the release, Harry held up his arm and pointed at/twisted his gold lion ring when he sang 'I hope you're missing me' line during Daylight. Credit Twitter

A year ago

[hldailyupdate]

"Boston how we doing? Fucking unbelievable audience in here tonight, singing every single word, I love you all. I wanna talk about FITF for a second. Proud it is. Listen, I had an incredible year last year, an incredible year. But there's been something special about touring this album FITF, I knew when I was writing this record I was writing it for the live context, for the live show. But you don’t know until you get it, how it’s gonna work and every single night it’s been so perfect, I’ve got you to thank for that, so thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s just been unbelievable, so yeah. I fucking love you all."

-Louis thanking the crowd.

Faith In The Future World Tour: Boston, Night 1. (24 July 2023)

[zot3-flopped]

Venues are booked 6 months in advance, minimum, usually longer, stadiums no different. Release album, do great for a week, do a ton of press: there is hope that things will turn around and tickets will sell ever better.

Louis’ story, imo begun by the fans and latched onto by his team as a secondary narrative, is that he gets no radio play because Harry is already there and radio can’t cope with 2 ex-1D members at the same time. This was in the BMG marketing report for Louis. Alongside the hilarious bit about wanting the Rolling stone cover for release month but Harry had multiple covers that month so RS was impossible. It wasn’t even the right month. (BMG move like fucking Larries, I tell you.) So a promoter would be hearing a little about that ‘but we hope that’s going to change with the new album’ ‘we’re working on it’ etc.

The primary narrative is he’s being true to his roots and getting away from the boyband sound, realises it’s not as marketable, but has these intensely loyal fans…and my god they are. Anyone can do a Twitter search and they are posting about him being hot/fit/sunshine/super talented. His management just has to do this spiel to a local promoter and talk about the new album that’s coming, the deeply loyal fan base, the number of social media impressions, and let’s be ambitious because this new material is great and the fans always come through. And like you said, One Direction One Direction One Direction: that can always get him on local radio to promote the tour on the road.

What does Louis care if his arena tours don’t sell out? He and his management know his fans will call it a sell out no matter what. Maybe his management keep the details from him. I imagine the smaller venues running at 38% sold are harder because that’s visibly a failure but 31k in a stadium, the stage pushed forward, is going to feel good. Hopefully the promoter doesn’t lose money.

But they won’t be fooled again, especially now we see his touring power has dropped. And especially if any of them actually saw him ‘sing’.

Fitf was released in November 2022 and his Latam tour was May and June 2024, so if they booked the stadiums even a year in advance the dire sales of FitF would have been well documented already. I think they just said 'number 1 album in the UK' and hoped nobody would find out that it had barely sold any copies after the first week.

He won't be able to play the same trick twice on the Latam tour promoters, that's for sure.