#fuck dan wootton today tomorrow and always

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A bit of levity, courtesy of Popbitch. Respect to Liam and Cheryl 😂

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Thurs 7 Mar

"We're fine, I'm the boss"- Louis Tomlinson

460 days since Louis' last musical release, 468 days since his last performance, but today doesn't count because we got both! Two Of Us is, and facts only here, always, REALLY REALLY FREAKING GOOD HOLY SHIT FRIENDS. It dropped in the middle of the day on a Thurs, totally unreasonable, but immediately shot to number one on the iTunes charts in 33 countries so far and counting, and debuted at number one on the worldwide chart hell yeah baby, trended at number one on twitter for 8 hours (he has his own emoji and it's precious omg), tumblr too, the gorgeous stunning beautiful lyric video is already at a million views, and he made the front page of everything from Rolling Stone to non music related media outlets and was promoted heavily by spotify and shazam and by NIALL YAY and of course (only not really of course so it's still exciting) by Louis' team and label, and by Louis himself, loads of tweets and updates all day long! And he played the song live to a small audience and livestreamed it. The livestream showed only the single being performed, and fans were asked to check their phones so we have no video of the rest but he also answered questions and sang Just Hold On acoustic. Pertinent answers, he said out of the avengers he'd be the Hulk "cause I'm massive" (lol, and sorry spidermanLouis enthusiasts!) and did an impression, he said performing the song was a lot more emotional than he'd expected, and when a fan who had asked him before but never received the promised reply asked again what was his favorite lyric he'd written he said idk I'll get back to you in 18 months! The trolliest my god. What a demon!

There are interviews and articles everywhere (and a cute reading tweets video), he says he "misses the band every day", he says that "between this single and the one we'll have after this, it's a good representation of what the album will be like" ummm yes talk to me more about this multi-single plan you have already omg, he says the album will be "honest, live, and catchy", and he talks about the song, a lot! The coverage is respectful and music focused and so far totally stunt free. There have been some stunty print articles but with zero new material, they are just recycling old quotes some of which REALLY don't seem to have much to do with what they're putting them in about. It's pretty funny to watch them scramble tbh. We were ten for ten until Dan Wootton swept in to rain on our parade with an announcement of a coming interview that will apparently address everything but the music, but we'll see when we see. For now let's focus on the fact that the things that have actually happened are fucking. Amazing. Louis' face looked like it was gonna spilt in two beaming this morning and things have only gotten better since, it's his time to shine and nobody can drag him down.

Business notes: for those who had been waiting for the liner notes to see, yes, Louis is still with Syco. But is he emotionally with them? His retweet of only Arista's promo tweet was entertaining. Two Of Us isn't quite to #1 for the UK/US at press time and the label and LTHQ are asking fans to not wait until tomorrow to buy, so listen up and buy TOU on iTunes today! Not tomorrow! They're making a big push with sponsored posts on ig and Facebook.

And- remember that plagiarism case against everyone involved in writing Night Changes? Sad news for anyone still hoping for a thrilling OT5 courtroom reunion, it was settled out of court. The case is over.

For anyone that can keep track in all this chaos and is wondering about those phone calls that were promised to early hotspot arrivals? It seems like they didn't happen :(

Liam started his day (way too early) with a beautiful sunrise pic and ended it late at the Global Awards, where I hate to have to report that he was up for two awards and didn't get either of them. #liamdeservesbetter friends, but we're seeing now that it can happen, may this be the year lilo rise and see all the good things. He seemed in good spirits though, there are cute videos of him with Roman Kemp and he talks about wanting to do a Mark Ronson collab. He interacted briefly with Cheryl on the red carpet which is getting lots of press.

Harry was spotted out running in London, and despite his eagerness to be off doubled back to say hello to the thrilled fan.

The I Heart Radio Awards voting closes tonight and I'm not saying it was fishy last year but I will say that today, prior to any awards being officially won, they contacted a large (though I wouldn't say popular) Harry UA and offered to fly their American members out to the ceremony and put them up for some weird reason. HSHQ is not involved, that we know of.