Goodbye Adulthood

Denial is a very strong impulse, especially when you're dealing with a lot of young people who haven't yet figured out just how much the world really lies to them. Cognitive dissonance and all that.

gossip-candy.tumblr.com… lmaooo

Block’em. There’s actually only 7-10 people responsible for ALLLL those messages.

Fandom: *speculates about Harry and Louis interactions*

1DHQ: You continue to ruin their friendship with your gay rumors!

Fandom: *speculates about Niall and Julian getting cozy in a vine video*

Niall: LOL

Ohhhhhh mmmmyyyyyy goddddddddddddddd

Does everyone see this? Do you see it? Do you?!?! This person should be working in politics if they’re this good at twisting facts and throwing out overly aggressive buzzwords.

Harry has lunch with his (by all accounts, completely straight) friend and a third person on a day off and he’s suddenly “with Jeff every given moment.” Louis’ not seen for days so he’s suddenly clearly in Las Vegas even though this anon openly admits that no one has actually seen him there. This anon doesn’t understand how it doesn’t faze me that Harry had lunch with his friend and a third person who was at the table with them! And because I don’t give any weight to the fully unsubstantiated rumours about Harry and his friend (whose father just so happens to be Irving Azoff, the man who is likely positioning himself to take over the management of the band that Harry’s in), because I don’t believe that they’re dating, then I think the “mere idea” of them being together is monstrous! MONSTROUS!!!

One more time, read that again. MONSTROUS. Because I think that the ideas that are shoved into my inbox (completely unsolicited and unwanted) on a daily basis are unfounded and ridiculous, because I’ve never once in my life heard anything that even remotely backs up these people’s claims and I therefore choose to believe they’re just pairing Harry off with whichever mid-twenties semi attractive man that he happens to be sitting next to, because they don’t seem to have any proof whatsoever that these two are anything other than friends, because apparently getting lunch together or instagramming photos of each other suddenly equals a relationship, because these people are saying it’s obvious that they’re dating despite the fact that they literally know so little about Jeff that they’ve never even heard him speak and despite the fact that these people know nothing about the way he and Harry behave together beyond what they’ve seen in completely platonic-looking still photographs, because I don’t believe that Harry is dating Jeff Azoff, then I obviously think that the mere idea of them being together is monstrous.

Wow. And now that I’ve made myself abundantly clear how I feel about Hazoff, can you people please stop sending me messages like this ten times a day? It’s obviously started to get on my nerves. I don’t come to your blog and try to convince you of anything.

As far as the purely promotional tweets go (Celebrity Big Brother, X Factor, etc), I don’t understand why people have any problem with it beyond the fact that they're maybe a bit annoying. Yes, it is part of their jobs. It’s standard. That’s what celebrity Twitter accounts are for. They’re marketing tools, whether that means marketing themselves or marketing sponsors’ products.

I also don’t understand why people say they do no music promo? They’ve done a MASSIVE amount of music promo over the last week or so. Almost an overwhelming amount. But there was that post going around yesterday about how “they pushed the fragrance so hard and now crickets on the music!!!” Which… No, they’re pushing the music pretty damn hard. They’re just doing a much better job of it than they did with the fragrance. Would you rather they did corny countdown videos and “BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 3 DAYS TO GO!!!” and continued to cater to the very young market? No, this is what well done promotion looks like. They shouldn’t be catering to tweens with the promo for their music at this stage, and it’s a really good thing that they’re not.

The one thing I DO understand people taking issue with, though, is the narrative that’s often pushed through their tweets and the fact that they so strongly deny publicist involvement. The way they’ve pushed things in the past hasn’t been great (“Larry is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever heard!” in particular… No matter WHAT you believe the nature of Harry and Louis’ relationship to be, that was unnecessarily aggressive).

Oh, I’m totally aware that it might not be the case. I’m just interpreting the things that I see as I see them happening. People are 100% free to disagree with me (and I know some people do), and that’s fine. It’s just what I personally see happening by looking at the press trends, especially the recent ones.

I do want to make myself clear about the whole Niall thing, though, because I think my ideas may have gotten a bit twisted by a few people. I don’t think they’re trying to appeal to an exclusively “macho straight beer drinking mid-20s he-man” or anything. That’s not what I’m saying at all. I just think that, to me, it makes sense why they would choose Niall at this stage in the game. He has the widest general appeal, because there aren’t any preconceived ideas that come along with him, like the womaniser image or the bad boy thing. They can make him into anyone they want, or they can leave him as he is but put a spotlight on him.

Zayn doesn’t seem to particularly want the spotlight, a few people have pointed out that Liam doesn’t have a great history when it comes to handling the sort of tabloid gossip he might be levelled with if he were suddenly the face of the band, and, as I’ve said before, I think one of the big reasons they would be switching frontmen would be to draw focus from Harry’s relationship, which is why I think Louis would be an unlikely candidate.

One thing I do want to say, though, is that I really disagree that the frontman always happens naturally. It looks natural to most people, but that’s because they MAKE it look natural. These things are planned out months in advance and press strategies are executed very carefully in order to keep people from noticing that they’re being swayed in one way or another. There is some amount of the person’s own personality that goes into the choice, though, and I think Harry’s charisma and charm made him the most obvious choice for them to push for a long time.

all i could find was this tweet twitter.com/billboa…