Hit the pedal heavy metal show me you can

So the other day I downloaded One Direction's latest album Take Me Home and I tell you what I am the biggest sucker for popular trends and like anything that Nova FM plays except for that stupid song about butts - yeah I downloaded the album and listened to it from start to finish on my way to and from uni yesterday...it's really good...and it's also incredibly clever. 

I really like One Direction and their music for a lot of reasons. I was talking to my friend Justin about this song in particular:

I said this (directly copied and pasted from our conversation because I can't be bothered):

"it's really good and you gotta remember that the people who write one direction's songs are the best pop songwriters in the world at the moment

it's so clever

the lyrics are generic enough to apply to anyone in the demographic they're aiming for (teenage grls) but specific enough and simple enough to form a story and imagery

it's catchy and alludes to pop culture (we will rock you) so parents who happen to overhear it from their daughter's bedrooms will dig it too

and that chorus melody is so good because it's a bit strange that climb up but it resolves perfectly oh man it's so good

and this is just an album track!!!! like man oh man..."

Really though. And I was listening to the album again at gym tonight and the production really is quite amazing - someone's nitpicked over it for days and days with a fine-toothed comb, taking every tiny little imperfection and ironing it out. Totally painstaking and so awesome. This review is interesting too (although I wholeheartedly disagree with the writer calling 'Rock Me' "excruciating" like excuse ME mister). Sigh.

from left to right: the blonde irish one, the one i don't know that one, the pointy one, the sweepy old one and the one with the hair