Just a few months after boy band baddie, Zayn Malik, decided to leave One Direction to pursue real ‘music,’ the band has made the decision to take a quick break. Fans around the world have made it quite clear how heartbroken they are due to this verdict. While Zayn’s announcement is a permanent ruling, the rest of the band promised that this choice is a temporary situation. They are taking this time to pursue individual projects. Although to the naked eye, this may seem like a calm and mature ruling on their part, but in all reality, this is a death sentence for the band. Just take a look into the history books, folks. This has happened time and time again; N’sync, Backstreet Boys, New Kids on the Block. They ride the fame high and live large until they get too big for their britches and decide to work on their own stuff and run themselves head first into a brick wall. The last five years of their careers have been a whirlwind adventure of crazed fans, non-stop international tours, and paparazzi encounters. They are in desperate need of a break. But when the best member of the band, vocally, dipped out, the band was doomed. Harry, Niall, Liam, and Louis stayed pretty strong at the beginning of the band reduction but their latest hiatus announcement has shown the true colors of their panic.
What happens next has come before and will happen with them. During this so-called break, the boys will come to the final decision that the band will break up in the next few years. Each member will start doing his own thing but eventually it will only be one that truly shines. The rest will make short cameos in a wildly inappropriate and hilarious film or the Super Bowl halftime show. The fans will be incredibly upset for a few months but finally realize that it is time to grow up and understand that there are bigger issues in the world than “Niam” or “Larry” won’t have anymore onstage moments. One member will continue on to become outrageously successful or even gay. They’ll all have short reunion tours that social media outlets will go berserk over. Hopefully there will be an E! reality show that surrounds the precious faces of post boy band life. They will be featured sporadically in tabloids that post that they’ve died or are balding. When the next inevitable boy band becomes quite large, they’ll come out with some well wishes and advice for the entertainment newbies.
One Direction is predictably over and I believe that everyone needs to just accept it as it comes. They’ve had a great run and created an empire that they’ll be able to live off of in years to come. Their music has been fantastic to sing along to in the car, at the concert, or embarrassingly too excited for in public. But just as every legendary boy band to come before them, all good things must end.
