#missingthescreams

One Direction’s 10 year anniversary has brought back all the feels for me this week. As a proud over aged teeny bopper and original boyband fangirl of the 1990s, I fell in love with One Direction and how they brought back the boyband revival and fangirls! They encompassed everything us fangirls love about boybands - beautiful vocal harmony and charisma galore with each member appealing to a different personality type.

This week I went on a trip down memory lane listening to their albums and watching heaps of YouTube videos and I must admit, it breaks my heart to not have them around anymore. Especially in times like 2020 when the world feels like it’s crumbling and there is no end to the madness, One Direction’s music and that of all boybands just bring pure happiness, joy, innocence and simple pleasures! Pop music is just that... an escapism from the real world..

This video in particular was a performance of a non single track called “Moments” which is absolutely stunning and is sung with such beautiful harmonies but it’s the amazing screams of the crowd that brought me to tears today. As the boys moved closer into the crowd, they start screaming louder and louder! So many memories flood back, the sound and the feeling of euphoria is so raw that I’m taken back to One Direction concerts I’ve been to and that of many boybands and performers in general. There is no better feeling than sitting in a crowded arena with thousands of other fans who are just as happy and excited to be there to see their favourite artist perform!

But right now, I am sitting on my couch here in Melbourne, Australia, halfway through our 2nd covid-19 lockdown feeling sad and angry that we’re all back here again because people aren’t following the social distancing rules and spreading this virus to such an uncontrollable state. 2020 was the year I was going to see Niall, Harry and Louis in their respective solo tours and all have been postponed/cancelled because of this pandemic.

I can’t even image a time when we’ll be at a state where we can have 10,000 people in a closed arena again and that devastates me! Music is absolute life for me. Going to see live music is pure joy and every new concert I’ve got lined up helps me make the decision to continue a new day... It’s helped me get through hard times and has always been there for me.