styles thought the name one direction would sound good when announced, which in turn made him like the name, at harry edward styles.
styles thought the name one direction would sound good when announced, which in turn made him like the name, at harry edward styles.
where did styles think the name one direction would sound good when announced, which in turn made him like the name?
harry edward styles
at bootcamp, he sang "champagne supernova", but failed to qualify for the "boys" category. after a suggestion from guest judge nicole scherzinger, horan was put in a group with four boys who also failed to move on in the competition, and since they were too good to let go, the judges decided to agree with scherzinger. horan along with harry styles, liam payne, louis tomlinson, and zayn malik formed one direction. styles came up with the band name, which he thought would sound good when announcer peter dickson read their name out on the live shows.
niall horan
the duo had not written music for a film since "you've got to walk it like you talk it or you'll lose that beat" in 1971, but they knew what producers wanted. "we wrote a song that would sound good with a big production, and an overdub of strings that would sound good coming out of movie-theater speakers," fagen says in "reelin' in the years", brian sweet's 2007 history of the band. it would be the band's first use of strings in a song since the short "through with buzz", on 1974's "pretzel logic", and the second time in their career overall.
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