#well buckle up kids cause there's only gonna be more with the album! it'll be diluted by good content though which will distract people

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Thurs 16 Jan 🚪

Walls is out! Well, technically not out everywhere but it's out in the world to be heard! Yet another gorgeous gender neutral song about overcoming obstacles with your one and only who you've been through some really hard times with but who is always your because and who you let down your guard for, with a bonus lyric about a closet ("cupboard full of clothes") and cover art of Louis standing in the literal opposite of a wall, an open door with no walls in sight, even around the door, just free open air. You can really hear why they had to ask Noel Gallagher for permission for that guitar part, and you can really hear why the king of the No said yes to this one, the only one he's ever said yes to; it's worth making an exception for. The midnight local time Fri release is a departure from the previous much hyped Thurs announced single release time, I feel like they'll skip single promo for this one in favor of the album, which seems likely and totally makes sense, but damn I would have enjoyed the hell out of weeks of Louis getting repeatedly put on the spot about these lyrics and saying it's just about physical walls. Ah well. On that subject, Louis liked a tweet praising his talent at "writing about something wanting to refer to something else" then unliked it after OP added that she meant it might not be a love song, lol. Louis like, WTF I thought u were a larrie NM bye. He did meeting and greeting outside his rehearsal space last night- lots of footage in which Louis is cute and the crowd... are not. Louis' capacity for being tolerant is underestimated and underrated, much respect to him.

Yesterday I said I guessed we'd find out more about Harry's super bowl pre party show when they wanted us to know more, but that time... never came? The tickets just, went on sale. An article announcing the lineup (Harry and Mark Ronson sharing headlining duties with, uh, pepsi. ah yes, my favorite musical act, pepsi zero sugar whatever the fuck) came out after the fact- by far the highlight is the part where they quote Harry's tweet about how excited he is to play the event ("I’m excited to be playing the Pepsi Super Bowl party this year. I hear they’re amazing and I’m looking forward to it. See you in Miami – H.") Aww how nice! Only problem, that tweet never actually got tweeted LMAO. Oh HSHQ what happened? Anyway HSHQ did eventually post about it (a different tweet), those tickets are ummm not cheap but they're onsale now, unless they're sold out: idk cause I can't get into the purchasing queue to see, which tells you something I guess. American fans meanwhile trended #HarryBackOut, distressed at the support of the NFL in the face of widespread criticism of and protest against the organization's racism by other public figures.

Liam released a behind the scenes for the Live Forever video. A lot of shots of Liam in a t-shirt surrounded by people appropriately dressed for the near freezing temperatures in huge parkas, or of Liam in only wet suit bottoms being sent into the frigid sea, honestly yikes! A familiar experience: a video of Liam being like 'haha look how terrible this is lmao' and me like 'oh god. This is terrible!' But he looks genuinely cheerful so who am I to project, and I'm sure all that shirtlessness and the one handed push-ups were a hit with the thirst crowd, maybe Grindr will post about him again! We all know Liam's team are useless but of all their mistakes nothing pains me the way their continued failure to market him to gay men does, talk about missed opportunities. Truly tragic.

Niall says the song he wrote in a dream is on the album, that the cover art is set, was done before the album itself, and tweets, "Album is officially complete" ten years to the day after his famous "applied to the x factor hope it works out" tweet. Also he says that the way he keeps his white shoes clean is by living in LA.