12/4/13 - Midnight Memories

If there's one guilty pleasure that I'll have to admit right now, it has got to be this boyband, One Direction. I'm not a fan but their music is good enough for the pop music scene. After all, being a part of a talent show must mean they somehow have talent right unlike other young people who's making off money out of showing their naked bodies without having legitimate backgrounds on music aside from significant affiliations.

Midnight Memories is the bands third studio album from what seems to be a long but very successful career. I wouldn't mind them taking over Bieber's spot in the spotlight. Though I could care less over their personal lives as I don't even know their names except for 1 or 2 members.

This is their follow-up to last year's Take Me Home which is the album which really got me into them. Their first album was quite too bland for me 

The album seems to be an extension of last year's album. Young fans will surely enjoy the catchiness of each track, aside from the fact that they sung it which is my guess to why they sell a lot of albums.

The album starts with the first single, Best Song Ever which is a weak choice It doesn't even fit into the album. But they make it up by putting their second single out called Story of my Life which is a midtempo track that tries to be more personal.

The rest of the tracklist is a string of radio friendly songs. Its too bad the deluxe edition bonus tracks wasn't included in the regular edition. My other criticism is that most of the songs sounds like old songs, case in point, Best Song Ever sounds like a complete rip off of The Who's Teenage Baba O Riley and even they noticed the similarities. The album seems like they are trying to mature musically. They haven't achieved that yet but they may be on their way if they try to mix it up a bit. I still prefer last year's album but this comes close second.

Top track/s: Does He Know, Happily and Don't Forget Where You Belong