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‘Take Me Home’ goes in right direction for One Direction

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One Direction, still feeding off of the international success of their first album, Up All Night, released their second album, Take Me Home, on Nov. 12. The album debuted at #1 on the British, American and Australian charts, and even went gold in The Netherlands and platinum in Sweden within the first week of its release.

Take Me Home features two of the band’s most recent hit singles – “Live While We’re Young” and “Little Things”. “Little Things” peaked inside the top ten in every country it charted in, and “Live While We’re Young” recorded the highest ever one-week opening sales figure in the United States for a song not by an American artist.

This album deserves every ounce of the success it’s reeling in. Take Me Home is head and shoulders above Up All Night in terms of vocals and lyrics. The songs give off the sense that this is what One Direction wants to be, as seen in the more upbeat songs like “Magic”, “Kiss You” and “I Would”, and the slower, acoustic ones like “Truly Madly Deeply” and “Over Again”.

On Take Me Home, One Direction had the opportunity to work with some of England’s most esteemed songwriters, such as British music sensation Ed Sheeran, and Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter of McFly. All five members of the band’s names were listed as writers on five out of the 13 songs on the album, which is impressive for a band this big.

On Up All Night, the songs were mainly sung by band members Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik, only giving Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson five solos each throughout the entire album. On Take Me Home, Horan and Tomlinson’s voices are present in every single song – something that makes me very happy.

Overall, Take Me Home is a huge success in my eyes (and ears). One Direction is known as the ‘biggest boy band in the world’ right now, and this album is sure to help them keep that title.

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    IlmizzleDec 3, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    I was def at walmart after school to buy this album! The first one was ehh, this second was was betterrr(: Like the article says there was a good balance of pop songs with slower ones. I personally liked the mellow ones better. Harry and Taytay are not together I refuse to believe so haha! Unlike everybody who think tswizzle is the american princess I don’t like her because I bet you if a guy didn’t wave back to her down the street..oh boy here comes a song of her broken heart…again.

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    Christina CurtisNov 28, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    LOL I love the last paragraph! Great job on another amazing article!(:

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    Naina GuptaNov 27, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    Hello my lovely chess directioner buddy who is obsessed with finding the chess player with the best hair. This article is one of my-NO MY FAVORITE ARTICLE on this website. I am in love with you and all your little things. Niall should fall in love with you after this “MAGIC”al article. Take Me Home is #1 in like 33 countries right now and we couldn’t be happier!!! You’ll never love yourself half as much as I love you right now okay? Kaas would be too late to say he’s in L-O-V-E because you are already married to Niall. You’ve got that one thing. Niall would never make your tears fall down like the showers that are British. Nobody compares. You are not afraid except when it comes to Niall, then you are complete awesomeness. Kaas will one day figure out that you’re still the one. I would write more but Ethan will be mad at me for not doing tactics LIKE YOU SHOULD BE. Now i will go find my Suspenders because I love them. Turtles, Suspenders, Curls, Clovers, and Mirrors man. WE FOUND THEIR HOUSES. Peace, love, directioners for lifeeee.

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