It’s been a whirlwind few weeks for One Direction with a reunion of some type officially
on the horizon and Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson AND the official
One-Direction social account are all re-following Zayn Malik on Twitter again.
But did Liam recently reveal the exact reason why One Direction broke up in the first place?
What’s up everyone, it’s Emile Ennis Jr. bringing you all the news updates here from
my in-home Clevver studio and I know, Directioners, we need answers!
Okay, so let’s back it all up for a hot second and get everyone on the same page.
Zayn left the band at the end of March in 2015.
The messy exit was essentially the beginning of the end for One Direction as the remaining
boys last performed together on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on New Year’s
Eve in 2015.
Shortly after that, the band took a hiatus that basically became permanent.
Since then, there’s been a ton of speculation as to when One Direction would finally reunite.
At the start of 2020, Directioners noticed the band’s website had added “2020 SONY
Music Entertainment” at the bottom of the page.
Recently, Harry was asked during a Sirius XM interview if One Direction would do a reunion
via Zoom.
His wording was revealing when he said that wasn’t what they, quote, “had in mind.”
And then, just a few days ago, Liam spilled all the tea in an exclusive interview with
The Sun.
It was what all Directioners have wanted to hear for years; there’s something in the
works from 1D for their 10-year anniversary.
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
He said, quote: “We've got a ten-year anniversary coming up so we've all been speaking together
a lot over the last few weeks which has been really nice.
To hear a lot of people's voices and seeing old content and different things that we haven't
seen for a long time or never seen before, it's very interesting.”
Well at least there is some positive light in 2020!
But Liam had EVEN MORE to say recently, finally delving into WHY One Direction broke up in
the first place while as a guest on the “Killing It” podcast.
In a word?
They got tired.
He said, quote: “What probably caused the demise of it, towards the end, was just the
tiredness more than anything.
Everyone makes stupid decisions when they’re tired.”
HEARD DAT!
He added, “We all just got on with it, you know, it was just a case of this is your job
and this is what you do and then you just slowly spiraled into this thing.”
It makes sense, when you think about it.
One Direction came together back in 2010 due to Simon Cowell putting five X-Factor contestants
together.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Five albums and four tours in five years is A LOT.
They got tired and then made a stupid decision, according to Liam.
But what do you think?
Are you buying the tired factor as the reason they broke up and broke our hearts?
Or is there more unseen drama that we simply aren’t privy to yet?
Let me know where you stand in the comments down below.
Speaking of, Liam had more to say about what the potential reunion could be.
While nothing is concrete, 1D has enjoyed connecting again, with Liam saying to The
Sun, quote: “At the moment I'm not sure what I'm allowed to say.
There's a number of different things that we are all working on to try and make happen
and people are forwarding emails around.
But more than anything it's just been a real good time for us to connect together again.”
Except there’s one little issue he’s not addressing here.
What about Zayn?!
As we mentioned earlier, Zayn’s departure kind of kicked off the 1D breakup.
The rest of the group didn’t take it too well and he was kind of removed from EVERYTHING.
Liam, Harry, Niall and Louis all stopped following him on Twitter, and he was taken off all of
the group pages.
But that may all be changing.
Perhaps those “stupid” decisions are finally being reversed.
Directioners noticed that the band and the official One Direction Twitter account had
refollowed Zayn Malik…
There’s been tons of other clues too, including an Instagram Live video, disappearing Facebook
stories and Apple Music changing the One Direction photo to a picture including Zayn...
Will Zayn be a part of the One Direction reunion?
No one knows for sure, but at the least it appears the ice has cooled between the 1D
boys.
So why did Zayn leave One Direction?
Liam might have spilled the tea on that as well while on the “Killing It” podcast,
saying, quote: “Zayn makes music but he doesn’t really perform.
For him, he had such performance anxiety that he just couldn’t put his head around it.”
He seemed to have nothing but love, adding; “I think he is just kind of happy.
He likes going to the studio, making the songs, he just doesn’t want to do anything that
happens after that.
But he is streaming hugely.”
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