louis has 37 songwriting credits for 1D (contrasted with liam’s 34, harry’s 21, niall’s 16, zayn’s 11)
the sound changed significantly with MM, their third album, when savan got the boot….
…and who was responsible for savan getting the boot? who was butting heads with savan about their sound? that’s right, LOUIS.
john ryan who kept working with 1D described the third album (when louis and liam finally got to have a say) as a pivotal one that gained them credibility and compared it to the beatles being taken more seriously.
louis and liam being reported as the biggest 1d earners as of savan’s departure because they wrote the most songs on the album
i guess the band themselves were lying when they said louis wrote the most songs on Graham Norton
i guess liam was lying when he said louis was the voice for the band and his talent was in steering their sound?
“The elder statesman of the group, Louis Tomlinson, 20, is also known in inside circles as the defacto leader and resident perfectionist in One Direction. In our conversation about being named Billboard’s Top New Artist of 2012, Tomlinson doesn’t exactly dispute the labels. “I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I have to be kind of be on board with every minor detail and [I’m] quite opinionated,” he said. “It’s quite important for me personally to be involved with the whole project.” Billboard, 2012
“As one of One Direction’s most prolific songwriters — along with Liam Payne and 1D’s steady roster of songwriter-producer collaborators like Julian Bunetta, Jamie Scott, John Ryan, and more — Louis Tomlinson plays a huge part in determining the band’s sound, one which has grown leaps and bounds since their debut album.“ EW, 2015
when will you anti-louies stop following me and actually follow the tpwk™ proverb instead of treating it like a fashion statement?
At this pivotal moment, One Direction made it clear that they wanted a greater say in their artistic future. Kotecha admits he was wary at first, but the band was determined.
And the songs 1D helped write (“Last First Kiss,” “Back for You,” and “Summer Love”) remain among the LP’s best.
“You saw that they caught the bug and were really good at it,” Kotecha says of their songwriting. “And moving forward, you got the impression that that was the way for them.”
But it was also time for a creative shift. Even Kotecha knew that from his boy-band history: Album three is, after all, when you start moving on. One Direction was ready, too. Kotecha credits Louis, the oldest member of the group, for “shepherding them into adulthood, away from the very poppy stuff of the first two albums. He was leading the charge to make sure that they had a more mature sound. And at the time, being in it, it was a little difficult for me, Rami and Carl to grasp — but hindsight, that was the right thing to do.” — Rolling Stone, 22 July 2020
He [Louis] was much more with One Direction behind the scenes steering the ship of which way the music [went]. Massively. And people don’t know enough about that to be honest with you. Several moves I would’ve made that we would fall out about, he was more right than I was.
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