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One Direction go all soppy and romantic on us for Christmas in their brand new music video for the catchy love pop/rock mid-tempo song, "Night Changes," the second single from the UK boyband's fourth studio album "Four," which only hit stores this last week. It's time to go on a few more romantic dates with the boys of One Direction. The festive track's accompanying new video gives fangirl the perfect way to envision a dream date with their favorite boyband member, but we warn you, it probably won't turn out as you hoped!
Directed by Ben Winston, and shot in London, the concept for the video is pretty simple... all five of the boys in the mood for romance as they go on a series of individual dates in five different locations, have a romantic date with someone...well, with you, the way they play to the camera. Following a romantic dinner with Zayn Malik, the ice skating with Harry Styles, the beach with Louis Tomlinson, a board game with Niall Horan, attend the carnival fairground with Liam Payne and a ride in Louis Tomlinson's surely expensive old-timey convertible, to get their video teasers in the "Night Changes # Days to Go" series.
It's all pretty intimate and sweet, but as the track plays along, something...well...changes, and things go horribly wrong in each situation. Arrested. Humiliated. Set on fire. Vomiting. Ambulances. Yes. To be a One Direction girlfriend is apparently a very dangerous thing indeed. The oh-so-adorable clip was fun while it lasted, anyway! Grab a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, get out your tissues, and take a look at the most tear-inducing, life-changing, swoon-worthy moments.

Destroying their inhibitions! One Direction go wild in their brilliantly bonkers music video for "Steal My Girl," the lead single from band's upcoming album "Four," in stores November 17th. Filmed at the desert, the Ben Winston-directed video featuring appearances from actor Danny DeVito, a juvenile chimpanzee, sumo wrestlers, acrobats, a marching band, leopard jackets, and tribesmen with balloons... It gets stranger!
"Steal My Girl," is a piano ballad that has the guys lamenting about those who want to steal their girlfriends away. As a throwback to the 1970s/80s due to the arena rock ballad, the song is "dad-friendly," emphasizing on the classic rock sound. One Direction revealed to MTV News that there were actually several girls that inspired the track. "It's based on everybody's experience, you have six guys in a room that have all been in love before and we all have jealousy - some are better at hiding it than others, but we don't like when people hit on our girlfriends."
The video, was all about 'bringing life' to the desert, begins with the boy band emerging out of their trailer and asking each other where the director is before DeVito arrives and he wants to brighten up the desert landscape and take the band to the next level. He starts off by assigning each member of One Direction with a particular expression. Harry Styles is "love" (naturally). Louis Tomlinson is "danger," Liam Payne is "power," Zayn Malik is "mystery" and Niall Horan is light.
The video then became more bizarre as each guy does their own thing to act out their expressions in the video with Payne dressing up as a band leader and smashed balls spelling out the word 'Inhibition' that were filled with colorful powder, Malik hanging out with two sumo wrestlers before Horan was seen in tribal African attire as he danced with a group of warriors. In another set up, Tomlinson was seen sitting with a smiling monkey and a bunch of other random animals are also shown. It all wraps up with the boys singing in the rain. The video is spectacular, perfect, wonderful, unique, life-changing and the best One Direction video that has ever existed.

After tons of teasers, One Direction finally released the official video earlier Friday for their new single "You & I," the fourth to be cut from their latest studio album "Midnight Memories," which became the biggest-selling artist album of 2013 when it was released in November; giving the boys yet another gargantuan-seller. So far it has spawned the hits "Best Song Ever" and "Story Of My Life," with the title track released as the third single earlier this year. The ultra cool clip is very simple, just focusing on One Direction's bizarre walking and their 'time freezing' moments.
This delicate us-against-the-world guitar ballad was penned for the boys by Julian Bunetta, a veteran music producer on The X Factor, with John Ryan and Jamie Scott. The song initially came about after they were chatting about their love lives. However, it eventually came to focus on not just romantic love but also as an ode to One Direction's fans. The love ballad, described as "an important song for us" by bandmember Louis Tomlinson, and Harry Styles saying: "'You & I' is a love song. It's saying you're inseparable and nothing can get in the way of you and your love."
Looking all grown-up in matching cozy gray sweaters, the guys brave the cold temperatures and stroll along the Clevedon Pier outside of Somerset, England, in the clip, which was directed by longtime collaborator Ben Winston. The music video starts out with Niall Horan is seen looking dreamy, walking along the pier wearing that gray sweater and black pants in a chilly day. Wardrobe is a key point in the "You & I" video. As Directioners know, this is a boy band that never wears matching outfits. But we now know that they share the item of clothing because they transform into one another in one continuous shot!
As Horan concludes his verse on the romantic "Midnight Memories" ballad, he suddenly turns into bandmate Liam Payne, who continues walking on the pier in the same outfit. Payne then transforms into Styles, who belts out the song's chorus. "You and I/ We don't wanna be like them," he sings. "We can make it 'til the end/ Nothing can come between/ You and I/ Not even the Gods above/ Can separate the two of us/ No, nothing can come between/ You and I." Styles then turns into Zayn Malik and, finally, Tomlinson before all five members of One Direction eventually all meet up toward the end of the clip, rolling around on the boardwalk, playing with balloons, kicking a soccer ball and pretty much being adorable.

All those late nights filming in London have paid off for One Direction fans, as the English-Irish boy band has finally unveiled its official hilarious video for brand new single "Midnight Memories," the third single and title track off their third album, which was the UK's biggest-selling album of 2013, despite only being released at the end of November, and saw One Direction become the first band ever to have their first three albums debut at No.1 in the US Billboard chart. The video shows how the fivesome upgrades from a boring house party to adventures around London and having fun.
There's always been rock influence in One Direction's music, but it really comes to the forefront on "Midnight Memories," is an ode to the quintet's life on tour and sees the band at their most exuberant and energetic. Co-written by John Ryan, Jamie Scott, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Julian Bunetta and produced by Bunetta, the song reflects the band's growing maturity. Payne told Ryan Seacrest during a pre-release Q&A that this track is the most significant part of Midnight Memories. "This was the first song we wrote on the new album and it set us on course of what writing the rest of this album was going to be. It set the tone," he explained.
Bunetta told MTV News the song personifies the five guys' lifestyle. "It's the title of the album and it just happens to fall in line with Up All Night, Take Me Home, it's all references to in the evening," he said. "And midnight memories are where most of the memories of this record were made," the producer continued. "[It] was between midnight and 5 in the morning. We have so many memories of just being in the studio or being after a show or being in the back of the bus or going to one of the guys' places and hanging and writing. Or, [it's also] just when you're young and that's when you kind of have all your experiences."
The Ben Winston-directed video starts with the Brit boy-banders at a "weird cast party with a crowded kitchen," as the lyrics say. As the boys getting uncharacteristically rebuffed by boring house party guests who couldn't care less, they decide to make a quick exit from the party to beginning of a much better time as the song kicks into gear. The quintet roams around London creating havoc - from stealing a police boat to jumping restaurant counters. They even find some elderly fans in electric scooters and rock out with them as sparklers go off in the street before singing their hearts out while harnessed on top of Tower Bridge.

One Direction unveiled the brand-new visual for their folk-esque tune "Story of My Life," the second single with each member posting a photo from their childhood, taken from English-Irish boy band's upcoming third studio album, "Midnight Memories," which will hit shelves on November 25th. The boys have been teasing for the past week with adorable family photo album snaps. Despite that slight hiccup with VEVO accidentally leaking the video for "Story of My Life" two days early, the boys are back with another premiere of the video, and it's a family affair.
It's yet another clip that's going to warm the deep, dark cockles of your heart too as Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson have decided it's about time to pay tribute to their nearest and dearest, getting their families well and truly involved with the video, as they are surrounded by pictures that tell their stories and they even recreate some of the pics in present day with their family members. It's a real heartfelt number. And it looks like the boys have been little heart breakers from day one as the chart-topping band share some adorable childhood photos.
"Story of My Life" is a mid-tempo, guitar-driven pop song with influences of folk pop, neofolk, arena rock, and alternative rock, which is said to be autobiographical with the band sticking to the theme as they tweeted their nostalgic photos as a toddler to promote the release of their new single. On the soaring ballad, the guys of One Direction channel the folk pop sound of "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips. Whilst the cute childhood photos have no doubt got fans cooing the single's artwork features a more contemporary picture of the band with the boys seen sprawled out on a road alongside some excerpted lyrics.
To match the song's indie sound, the One Direction band members look rugged as they hang up their personal photographs up as they look back on their rise to fame in the tender new clip, directed by Ben Winston who also directed their previous video for the "Best Song Ever." Malik said in an interview last week that "Story of My Life" deals with old memories so the video seems to line up that theme. The emotional video starts in a dark room with the band developing photos. Afterwards, certain family photos for each member are shown, and the photos morph into the same family members doing a current recreation of the photos.

The members of the British-Irish boy band One Direction are taking their career in another direction - acting in their just-released brand-new video for the memorable modern-pop classic, "Best Song Ever," the lead single of the group's upcoming third studio album, "Where We Are," and it also will be featured in the group's"This Is Us" 3D biopic, which will hit theaters on August 30. The video, which the band has been hyping on social media, is characteristically goofy, and it looks like they aren't quite themselves.
The five guys of One Direction serve up some serious attitude on pop-rock anthem about one epic evening. "Best Song Ever" is a straight up pop-rock affair with a heavy emphasis on guitars, expectedly cheeky lines and progressively layered synth intro reminiscent of The Who's "Baba O'Riley." The song is another impossibly catchy tune to add into One Direction's arsenal, although with lyrics more nostalgic than the group's previous singles. It may not be the best song ever, but One Direction's latest single is a youthful celebration with flirty, fluffy, fun and certainly a contender for one of the year's more exciting releases.
The video's director, Ben Winston, says the video is really about something else - celebrating who the guys are, while also paying homage to their new film: "The film that we've made 'This Is Us' is really the boys' story, and it's not trying to make them anything they're not. And that's what's incredible about One Direction, I think, is that they are a boy band that break all the rules and always do what they want to do," Winston told MTV News on Monday (July 22), the same day that the video premiered, which takes fans inside a terrible pitch meeting with the fivesome, where they face off against their Hollywood-based alter egos.
In the highly anticipated video, the boys rise to the challenge as they mess up their hairdos with funny costumes and over-the-top characters a la Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor. Although the video eventually breaks into the sharply choreographed, colorful clip that fans probably expected, a good three-fourths of it takes place in a slick Hollywood movie studio office. Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson play slimy executives while Zayn Malik plays a sexy lady, Harry Styles plays it up as a marketing guy and Liam Payne as a zany choreographer named Leeroy.

British-Irish pop boyband One Direction have decided to nix big budgets and turn the cameras on with a brand-new self-shot video for their charity single, "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)" to help raise money for the British fundraising organization Comic Relief. The goofy clip is self-directed by the boys and features behind-the-scenes shots from their world tour as well as footage from their recent trip to Africa, which the five boys have described as a life-changing experience.
The Brit quintet reworked Blondie's 1978 track with a bit of the Undertones' classic punk track "Teenage Kicks" mashed in, as a charity single, with all sales proceeds from the song heading toward anti-famine efforts to support Comic Relief, a charity that raises funds for the disadvantaged and spreads awareness. The song was produced by Julian Bunetta and recorded to mark the 25th anniversary of Red Nose Day, a fundraising event held by the organization televised lived by the BBC which officially takes place on Friday, March 15th.
"Comic Relief are a British charity that do amazing work helping people all over Africa and in the U.K. living with really tough lives," explains the group's Zayn Malik in the intro to the song's music video. Harry Styles continues, "So, instead of spending a load of money on a music video, we decided to make it ourselves while we were on tour, and give the money we saved to Comic Relief." Not to be missed out of course was the boys' interaction with the intended beneficiaries of their charitable work in Africa, a real heartwarming highlight to their new music video.
Like any proper One Direction video, goofiness and swoonworthy moments abound, "One Way Or Another" is rife with faux-DIY, goof-around scenes, as the boys taking on a journey with the fellas as they embark on travels across the globe, with stops in airports, New York, Japan, Africa and London, where they visit with kids in need, and even a quick cameo from British Prime Minister David Cameron. Keeping with the true message of the Comic Relief cause, the video ends with the fivesome in Africa, surrounded by kids, a reminder that this song isn't really about One Direction, but about the charity they've teamed up with for the track.

One Direction cruises through fake desert, goes skiing on a green screen and plays it up in their just-released comical video for "Kiss You" was chosen as the second US single from English-Irish boy band's sophomore studio album, "Take Me Home," which has landing at the summit on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. As the result, One Direction became the first British band to have their first and second albums both debut at the summit in the US.
In standard One Direction style, the boys woo their fans with passionate lyrics, the song utilizes a metronome with a fast tempo, and combines elements of uptempo, upbeat dance-pop, power pop and teen pop. The song has a live band feel. With "Kiss You," One Direction releases another single where they play the underdog that will do anything to woo over the girl of their dreams. They acknowledge insecurities, send a positive message and just want to have fun. Nothing about the video is meant to be serious, and the set-ups are as bouncy and colorful as the song's tempo and vibe.
It's a dark, brooding avant-garde work of postmodern torment. The Vaughan Arnell-directed video for "Kiss You" finds the boy banders dress as prisoners and paying homage to "The King," Elvis Presley. The jailhouse jumpsuits and cute-sy surfing reference "Jailhouse Rock" and "Blue Hawaii" respectively, two of Elvis' best movies! It opens with the guys riding a motorcycle, carousing down the open road being projected behind them, as they sing the flirty opening lines of the song. It's clear the guys are out to make viewers laugh at their every interaction with each other.
It seems that the clip has everything a Directioner could ever dream of, and the quintet are a bunch of happy sailors on leave. The embark upon an epic adventure also features the X Factor UK alums on sailing, surfing, skiing, motorcycle adventures and a whole lot of gratuitous posing. While the guys aren't stirring any pots, they are having a good time in the 'pure stupidity' clip finds the guys tangled up in some wacky shenanigans and escapades, all for the sake of comedy, strutting around in a "Jailhouse Rock" backdrop as well as in several other all-American scenes that pair well with the song's syrupy sweet pop hooks.

One Direction went on a different direction from their usually upbeat and settled down for a studio session and shows off their more soulful side in a brand-new minimalist video for their super-sappy ballad, "Little Things," the second cut to be lifted from the British-Irish boy band's upcoming sophomore studio album, "Take Me Home," which will hit the shelves in the UK on November 12 and a day later in the US.
The slow and sentimental ballad, "Little Things" is a song about what a guy loves everything about his girl even the silliest things. This acoustic ballad is one of two songs penned by Ed Sheeran when he was in his teens and they were inspired by a relationship he was in at the time. He revealed to MTV News: "The great thing about it is I wrote that song with a girl called Fiona Bevan when I was 17 and we lost the song. I've kept in touch with Fiona, we've done gigs and stuff and about two months ago she sent me the tune."
One Direction have a few "Little Things" that they want to share in their brand-new video, and most of those little things add up to the fact that they think you are perfect, no matter how you perceive yourself. It's a sweet and subdued, dramatic black-and-white stripped down clip that suits the acoustic ballad perfectly, with nothing flashy - just the fivesome singing, playing instruments, and jamming out together in the studio recording the swoon-worthy track, while each moment is captured by a Polaroid picture.
Taking a stylistic break from their earlier videos, "Little Things" has a far more minimalist vibe and features the boys in the recording studio, gazing into the camera, adjusting sound levels, singing gently into the microphone, and pensively strumming their guitars. The quiet tone of the clip complements the ballad's sentimental lyrics. Needless to say, it's a far cry from the inflatable bananas and Monkees antics of their "Live While We're Young" video, but shows the low key side of all the One Direction group members.

One Direction unveiled their brand-new video four days earlier than originally planned for their new party jam, "Live While We're Young," the lead single taken from British-Irish boy band's upcoming sophomore studio album, "Take Me Home," due on November 13. The boys live up to the song's title by dipping into a lake fully-clothed and partying with girls on a sunny day. When the guys of One Direction say they want to live while they're young, they really mean it.
"Live While We're Young," is a rollicking three-minute romp through all your summer camp memories. It's a pop perfection and an immediate, energy packed song mixing rock undertones with smooth harmonies about living for the moment. The catchy tune is reminiscent of their previous hits "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing," but it shows a more mature side to the U.K. pop group. The song delivers what fans loved about the last album: a poppy, energetic, happy-go-lucky track. This time, however, the boys seem to care less about finding that "one thing" than about having fun.
The track features the same hand claps, electric guitar riffs, and synthesizer bursts with its somewhat redolent, upbeat, frolicsome melody that made their debut album an upbeat pop smash. The accompanying music video was filmed on August in Kent, England. Follows in boy band tradition, the guys's latest clip jacks up the hilarity, goofing off as the Beatles, the Monkees, 'NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys once did. The crazy hijinks One Direction pull in the clip match the energetic song's carefree lyrics about living in the moment.
The video follows Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and Zayn Malik on an epic summer adventure from a camping trip to the ultimate beach party. It feature the quintets frolicking with friends after camping out an splashing around like they're at summer camp in deference to their younger fans. They goof around in the great outdoors, strum acoustic guitars, tool around in a Jeep and engage in all manner of water play. And when they sing the song's hook "Live while we're young," we can't help but feel like they're absolutely right.

British boy band One Direction have unveiled the music video for their latest single "One Thing," the third cut from boys' debut album, "Up All Night," which delivers a toe-tapping, Pink-meets-McFly mash-up with a breezy guitar pop melody. The boyband, who claimed their fame after participating on 'The X Factor' season 7, hop a bus and travel to various spots in town.
The super catchy song finds them declaring to a girl that she's got that 'one thing' they need. The track was written by X Factor vocal coach Kotecha and Swedish songwriters Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub. The same trio also penned One Direction's debut single, "What Makes You Beautiful." The use of holding back notes in rhythm gives us as listeners, a different kind of vibe to usual pop rhythms we are accustomed to hearing from boyband.
It's clear that One Direction had only one thing on their minds when they filmed their first new promo last November, and involved a selected group of fans in the UK after traveling to California and New York for their previous two efforts. The video is a pretty adorable glimpse into the five-piece boy band's typical day, and it transforms the song from a lovesick plea to an oblivious girl into an ode to London town.
During a recent interview on Capital FM, Harry Styles said of the video concept, "It was literally us being idiots around London for a day and we filmed it." Captures a day in the life of the UK X Factor alumni, from cruising around London to serenading screaming girls, the clip opens with the boys in suits, posing on a concrete staircase in front of their scarlet red double decker tour bus, altering their positions and singing to the camera. The boys then ride bus, greet their giggling female fans and treat them to an impromptu performance. Later they ride bikes, weave in and out of sculptures and just generally look like they're having a blast.