One Direction

Emily Cook The X Factor was once a popular TV singing show that was watched by millions across the country however it was halted by Simon Cowell in 2019. Why did The X Factor get cut? Was it the result of a rapidly modernising music industry that could discover...

In one of her final articles for Impact Magazine, Amrit Virdi fittingly takes the opportunity to take a step back in time to her teenage-hood, and reviews the discography of the world's biggest boyband, One Direction....

Amrit Virdi With its mass appeal, big budgets, and proclivity for commercial success, pop music has starkly had social consciousness on its radar. But amongst the turbulence and turmoil of contemporary societies, many pop starlights have begun to unshackle themselves from the expectations of the genre and press back...

The story of a group is always something of a roller coaster, but one day it has to end. For various reasons band members leave, either by choice or not, perhaps calling time on the band as a whole. Some artists however, don’t seem to acknowledge when their time...

The English singer and songwriter Zayn Malik, that many may know from a famous band known as One Direction has just hit us with his first solo album. The 23 year old vocalist released a couple of successful singles earlier this year, but I am sure not many of...

It’s been eight months since Zayn upped sticks and abandoned the other four members of One Direction, mid-way through the tour for their prophetically-titled album ‘Four’. What followed was textbook boyband, well, kind of; a social media reaction of apocalyptic scale, petty twitter spats between the current and former...

One Direction have broken up. This is international news. We can live in denial, clinging onto the promise that one day they’ll get back together but we all know absence doesn’t actually make the heart go stronger. Like every boy band before them, and my parents’ marriage, a trial separation...