-Congrats also on the solo album.
-Thank you. -"LP1."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Now, "LP1" obviously, Liam Payne.
-Yes. -That's why "LP."
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
-It was a good place to start. -Yes, thank you, yeah.
But I heard that you let your fans
choose the title for this album?
-Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things online these days.
Different hashtags and things people do.
I saw Harry's album and Niall's album, and they put "LP1"
and it kind of made sense for "long play,"
which obviously is what it is.
And so I just let the fans title it for me.
-That was great.
Did your dad have any say in naming this at all?
-Geoff Payne is not notorious for good names for things.
-I don't know if you guys know this
if you're a One Direction fan.
I am. [ Laughter ]
I do know that your dad tried to name the band, and it was --
What did he call it? USP or something?
-Parents, man.
-What, no, what did your --
-Yeah, USP, which was "unique selling point" which I think --
[ Laughter ]
-Dad, Dad, stop it. -Yeah, but there was a list.
There was, like, two pages worth of lists.
It was actually when we first went to rehearse in Manchester.
At this point we all sang at the same time because we couldn't
move our egos out of the way
to choose who would sing the solo parts,
which we would have been horrendous and called USP,
so it all worked out in the end, really.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
USP. -Thanks, Dad.
-The first track that you released
is called "Stack It Up."
And there was a little confusion
over the video you were making for this.
-Yeah, there was a little bit of a confusion.
I mean, a lot of time when I'm doing things,
I get drip-fed bits of information
about what we're doing.
So they said, "You're going to ride a horse."
And I said, "Okay, I'll ride a horse.
Sounds good, big-budget music video.
Animals, all fun." -Yeah.
Do you know how to ride a horse?
-I went and learned how to ride a horse because of it.
I thought I'll go and learn how to ride a horse.
It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it.
-Yeah. -It was a trusty little beast.
-Yeah. And then you got to the --
-I got the actual music video on a less trusty little beast
which was -- yeah.
-A carousel. [ Laughter ]
You're on a carousel. -Mechanical child's toy
is actually the professional term.
I was like, "What the hell is going on?
I been out learning riding horses."
-Yeah, no, you're not riding a horse at all.
-And it was a giraffe. It wasn't even a bloody horse.
[ Laughter ]
-Actually it was a giraffe. Ridiculous.
-All we've done so far is embarrass me on the show.
[ Laughter ]
First my dad and now me.
When does it end?
-Sorry about that. Sorry.
You have a lot of collaborations on this record.
You have Zedd, you have Rita Ora, J. Balvin.
You have Cuevo, Ed Sheeran.
Is there anyone that you --
you want to collaborate with now that you haven't?
-I can think of four people. -Yeah.
Is one of them sitting next to you?
-They're outside. [ Laughter ]
-We can do a duet. It'd be fun.
-Yeah, I've got imaginary friends.
-Oh, them, yes. [ Laughter ]
Is there anyone that --
Who do you like out there right now that you would sing with?
-I'd say out of everybody probably Post Malone.
-Oh, really? -He actually --
He actually slid in my DMs one night.
Not in that way. [ Laughter ]
Wasn't in that way.
-Okay, oh, yeah, yeah. [ Laughter ]
I was like, wait, wow.
-That came out wrong. -Yeah.
-He spoke to me in my direct message.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
"He slid in my DMs."
-But he came in -- I don't know why.
I think I covered his song that week
or I said something nice about him.
And he was like, "Love you."
It was either buster or Baxter. -Yeah.
-I'm either a buster, which I'm not really sure what that is.
I think it's --
-It's American. -Like a friend.
-Yeah, it's buddy. Yeah. -Translation is good.
-Or I'm Baxter, the dog from "Anchorman."
[ Laughter ] -It was probably buster, yeah.
I don't think he called you the dog from "Anchorman."
-I'd take the dog at this point. [ Laughter ]
-He'd be fun to do it -- He's a fun dude.
-No, I like him a lot. -I love that guy. He's great.
-You went to Olive Garden, right?
-Yeah, I took him to Olive -- he took me to --
-I've never been. -Me neither.
He loves Olive Garden. [ Laughter ]
He does. He celebrates all his big events --
Every time he has something big happen in his life,
he goes to Olive Garden and celebrates.
So I go, "Dude, I've never been."
So he took me to Olive Garden for the first time.
-So I guess if I want to collaborate with him,
I should just hang out at every Olive Garden.
-Yes, that's exactly -- [ Laughter ]
-Do you know the date or time?
-Dude, just win him over with breadsticks.
That'll get him every time. [ Laughter ]
You're getting into the acting world a little bit, too.
-Yeah, I've done a few auditions.
It was actually probably the first audition I did
that was the most memorable one.
I got a call asking to do a --
it was for Steven Spielberg's remake of --
What's the name of the thing?
-"West Side Story"? -"West Side Story."
How did I forget that?
And I got to go down and audition and I sent tapes in,
and then I got a message on my last birthday saying,
"You're going to meet S.S."
So I got to meet Steven Spielberg,
which is the most amazing thing ever.
-He's the coolest. -It's so good.
-What was he like?
-Yeah, he was really cool.
He walked in and he was like, "Liam!"
And I was like, "Oh, my God, Steven Spielberg knows my name."
-Of course he does. -He owns "Jurassic Park."
-Yeah, he created it. Absolutely, yeah.
-It was really good.
I mean, the most memorable moment was
we were kind of stood there, and he films everything.
And then we took a little break and he, like, stood there,
eating a cookie and it was like a woman.
It was like, "Oh, my God.
Steven Spielberg's eating a cookie."
[ Laughter ]
And then at first I was like, "It's just a cookie."
But then I was like, "No, this is cool.
No one sees that." -Yeah, exactly.
What song are you gonna be performing for us tonight?
-"Live Forever" is what I'll be performing.
-That's what I'm talking about. [ Cheers and applause ]
Thank you so much.
Liam Payne, everybody. His new album "LP1" is out now.