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- (man, Brooklyn accent) So I said to her, "Angelina, I want to."
I really, really want to.
- (squealing) I can't believe I got this video!
- Ah! My boys!
- (seriously) You're gonna make us watch One Direction.
- (groans deeply)
- (woman) One Direction. They're making their new movie.
- We've already seen this a few times.
We've actually had several meetings about how much we hate it.
- (man) It's gonna be the greatest movie of all time.
- He actually has a good accent.
- (man) We want to introduce you to our marketing guy.
- Their hair is so amazing.
- (man) Marcel! - (Marcel) Hi.
I want you to meet Leeroy. - Ooh, Harry.
- (Marcel) He's gonna be your choreographer.
Leeroy! Hmm.
- 52 million views in a week.
- Huh? Were you checking? - (chuckles)
- (Leeroy) Five, six, seven, eight.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪ And one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
- (Marcel) This one is the one.
♪ (faint synthpop) ♪ - Less clothes.
- (Louis Tomlinson) We'd never wear that.
- (Marcel) This one. - Less clothes.
♪ (upbeat pop rock) ♪
- Wait. Oh god. Is this a music video?
- Oh, this is a video.
- ♪ Maybe it's the way she walked ♪
- I've never actually seen a One Direction video.
- (chuckling) What is up with that man-woman?
- (laughing) Zayn is not cute as a girl.
- (Todd) ♪ Stealing [bleep] from everybody else ♪
- Don't tell them what we're gonna write.
(both laugh)
- Just wanna shoot him. - (laughs)
- ♪ She said, "Never in your wildest dreams" ♪
♪ And we ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Danced all night ♪
- (singing along) ♪ To the best song ever ♪
- ♪ We knew every line ♪
♪ Now I can't remember ♪
♪ How it goes but I know ♪
♪ That I won't forget her ♪
♪ 'Cause we danced all night to the best song ever ♪
- I'm upset with you guys right now.
- Are these guys peeing in buckets yet?
- ♪ I think it went oh, oh, oh ♪
- It's not like they don't have talent.
It's just like, it's not my style of music, you know?
- It's very, very debatable.
- I'm trying to ease us into it
so we don't get so much hate for this.
- Literally I can't stop smiling.
(cracking up) Like, I'm trying not to.
- Aren't they so attractive?
- Harry just looks so cool,
even when he's doing some stupid dance.
- I'm gonna get so much [bleep] for actually liking this song.
- ♪ I think it went oh, oh, oh ♪
- Oh man, pelvic thrusts.
- I think they trained for a while for that move.
- This is like the next "Gangnam Style."
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- ♪ Best song ever ♪ - Don't do it!
Illuminati right there.
- ♪ Best song ever ♪
- "This is us." Look at how genuine.
- Best video ever. Love it.
- They were doing Illuminati.
- Jesse... - Hold up.
- You're obsessed with those videos. - No.
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- (Finebros) So who was that group? - One Direction!
- That was my boys, One Direction.
- One Direction! Yay! Oh my gosh!
- 1D.
- One Direction! - 1D.
- I believe that was One Direction.
- It's Mark's favorite group. - Shut up.
- (Finebros) What did you think of their music video?
- It was good.
- I loved it.
- (Jesse) I thought it was cool. - The song sounded pretty good.
- I've watched that video probably
realistically maybe 50 times now.
- It's flawless. It's perfect. They delivered it.
It's their best video ever.
- It's pretty terrible.
- It was like the most produced garbage.
- (Finebros) What's the music video about?
- Is this about rebelling against Hollywood?
- It's a certain phase that boy bands get to where they're like--
NSYNC, where like, "No strings attached!"
- (feminine) Nuh-uh! I'm not doing choreographed moves!
- It was somebody's idea for them to do that.
- "We're not part of the machine,
even though we're part of the machine.
We're a part of the machine that's not a part of the machine."
(Finebros snicker) One Direction 2013.
- Same ideas get recycled.
We see that as NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.
My cousin saw it as New Kids on the Block.
- You have to look at it from a standpoint of,
okay, so One Direction is recycling an idea
that these kids who are now 12 years old don't know.
- (Finebros) And what's your opinion of the song itself?
- I don't even remember what they were singing about.
- It was the best song ever. - (chuckles)
- I don't think it was the best song ever.
Maybe top 500 best songs ever.
- It makes you feel happy.
You can't listen to that and not want to jump around.
- It's not the most intellectual song
that evokes lots of meaning, but it's fun. It gets in your head.
- A monkey could write this stuff.
But at the same time, my cousin will be playing it in the car
and I'll be dancing.
- (Finebros) Does it remind you of any other song?
- No.
- No. It kinda reminds me of their other song.
- It's every summer thing that you blast on a [bleep] radio.
- "Baba O'Riley."
- And that's like Tenacious D.
"Best Song Ever." Greatest song in the world, right?
- They copied someone. (both chuckle)
- Are you about to break my heart?
Why? Is it taking from somebody else?
It's original.
- (Finebros) "Best Song Ever" has been criticized
for being similar to many other songs,
including The Who's "Baba O'Riley."
♪ ("Baba O'Riley" opening instrumental) ♪ - Oh.
Oh no.
- That's the same chords, heh-heh.
- ♪ Maybe it's the way she... ♪ Yeah.
- Oh, so they're pulling a Vanilla Ice on us right now.
- That's terrible.
If my dad heard that, he'd be so angry.
- Maybe that's why I loved it
and felt just so at home with the song,
because I already knew it.
- (Finebros) Does that type of stuff matter to you
when it comes to liking a song or not,
if it has very similar elements to other people's work?
- I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg
for what's horrible about this particular song.
- Oh, absolutely.
- Yes, it does.
I think it's important to be original.
- If it's just like, "We're gonna steal it
and nobody's gonna notice," not a huge fan of that.
- I feel like if it's different enough, I don't care.
- It doesn't make me like the song less,
'cause I can't help how much I love the song.
- No really. Not when it's One Direction.
- I think that they can do no wrong.
I think they could kill a baby in their music video,
and I'd be like, "You know what? Great performance.
Like, they really stuck to it. Good for them."
- I think probably, in One Direction's case,
they didn't put their own original spin in it.
Because in the first place-- - Care what you're saying, Jack.
Fandom is out there. - They weren't musicians
in the first place. They weren't a band, were they?
Like, the songs are written for them. - I'm not saying anything.
- One Direction are great.
- (Finebros) One Direction's YouTube channel
now has almost 8 million subscribers. - Wow.
- (Finebros) What are your thoughts about mainstream artists
becoming some of the most subscribed YouTube channels?
- Well, I think they're probably one of the Vevo artists
that actually got the views.
So I think that's really, really cool. Uh... (chuckles)
- Why are they growing so fast though?
They're all on a sidebar, right, for being promoted.
- I personally think that's cool.
'Cause when you see names like Smosh, PewDiePie, Rihanna,
and it's just like, you got the regular guys up there
dancing with the big dogs.
- They're, like, mega super famous.
And right above them is Jenna Marbles and YouTubers.
Like, I think it's kinda dope.
- I guess they do bring more people to the YouTube universe.
So if they're putting more people in front of my videos,
then I'm fine.
- I don't think that's it's fair for them
to be put in the same category as YouTubers.
- I wish they were kind of like in separate lists.
But to the normal person,
I don't think they consume the list as much as we do.
If I had 8 million subscribers, I'd be like--
I would wear a name tag all day long, "8 million subscribers."
They probably don't even know.
Like, they've never said, "Make sure you subscribe."
- It's hard 'cause you start to lose
that homegrown aspect of YouTube.
- You have to work on your channel. If you ever logged in--
If you don't know the password to your channel,
you shouldn't be in the top 10.
(clang!) - (Finebros) Truth!
Why do you think One Direction's become so popular?
- 'Cause Simon Cowell is behind them.
- They're just nice lads.
- Because they're hot, they're young, Harry's a part of it.
- They're cute UK boys. - Cute?
- I... they're good-looking dudes.
- (British accent) Guys like them. Women love them.
Children adore them.
- YouTube is basically like Nickelodeon if you could say [bleep].
- Honestly, I was laying in bed thinking this.
There's always a season for the boy bands.
So these guys are right now that boy band that's hitting it.
- They are sex icons. Like these girls--
you don't want to see the tweets they send to these boys.
And they're, like, 14-year-old girls.
And I send the same tweets, so it's all good.
- (Finebros) You didn't mention anything about their music.
- And I still stand by what I said. (titters)
- (Finebros) One Direction has a documentary movie coming out
about their rise to fame. Will you see that movie?
- No. - How long have they been a band? A year?
- (dramatically) From all the way back in six months ago,
charting the entire progress of One Direction.
- Yes.
- Yep. I'm going to the premiere of that. I'm so excited.
- Of course I plan to watch.
I want to go to the premiere. I want to go to everything.
- I'll watch it. I watched the Bieber movie, man.
I watched the Katy Perry movie. I don't know why.
- You know what? I'm probably gonna tell everyone I won't,
and I'll secretly download, watch in my room.
- Probably not. - I wouldn't go in theaters and see it.
- I can barely sit through the music video.
If I have to sit through an hour and a half of them like,
"Hey! We're just normal people," I will die.
- (Finebros) Prediction time.
Five years from now, where is One Direction?
- I hope they'd still be together,
but I don't know that they will.
- They're gonna split up.
Harry Styles is gonna be the Justin Timberlake.
- I imagine Harry Styles' manager three weeks into One Direction
was like, "You're gonna do this for a year to two years,
and then solo career."
- One's gonna have a drug addiction. - (scoffs)
- One's gonna be gay. - Don't say that.
- This is what's gonna happen.
- Harry Styles will have knocked somebody up.
The girls are crying watching this right now.
- They're gonna last another three more years,
then pop punk's gonna come back, then grunge rock,
and then Creed's probably gonna come back.
I don't know. - Oh god, I hope not.
- And then, like... - Nickelback!
- Nickelback never went away, unfortunately.
- One Direction will stay together,
and they will still look fresh-faced
and be producing flawless singles.
- They are going to be gone.
But then 10 years from now, they'll be back.
I turn on the TV the other day, Backstreet Boys are out.
And they're not boys. - Backstreet's back?
- Yeah. - All right!
(both laugh)
- ♪ This is the end of the best React ever ♪
(chuckles) Oh my god,
you actually want that as the end of your video.
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- Thanks for watching and...
- (both) ...peace on the street, son! - (blows kiss)
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