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One Direction: Midnight Memories

Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 29 November 2013

IF NIALL HORAN, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, referred to as One Direction, had thought it through, they would have cut at least eight tracks off this 18 song behemoth, kept it to 8 songs, 10 at most, 30 minutes so their teenage fans could keep it in heavy rotation and never far from a good song, and slimmed it down, skipped the excess, kept it as light as their voices and had a chart topping smash.

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