Itās really amazing he got to do this in his own time and pace. I remember the immense pressure fans put on the 4 of them to IMMEDIATELY post Instagram tributes to Liam, as if those boys werenāt going through one of the worst weeks of their lives
People were so cruel about Harryās initial post being too ācorporateā or not performing his grief enough for them despite his statement coming out less than 24 hours after the news. He spoke about how awful it was to have his grief commodified like that so Iām glad he was able to share this on his own terms.
I think I was more forgiving of their fanbase being toxic when it consisted of mostly teenagers, but now it's mostly grown adults with too many still acting entitled and it's beyond gross.
Most of the comments come from one specific very sick individual, whoās made it their life mission to be the morality police when it comes to whoās good and bad in this specific situation.
Are they using at least three or four different accounts? Thatās wild. Iāve come across my share of standom but this is beyond anything Iāve ever seen.
I loathed how much pressure people put on them to release something asap. I thought the group statement should've been enough, but they kept pushing until they were all forced to post something quicker than I'm sure they would've wanted to. It made a horrible event that much sadder.
Like how rotted are peoples brains to the point they think SOCIAL MEDIA is of any relevance in any way whatsoever during such a serious event. Those things were not fans.
I mean, here's the thing, social media is a double-edged sword in its utility as a communal space for processing serious events. In many ways, it's good that we have a space to come together around such things, and this was present in even earlier days of the internet where forum communities were more self-selecting by choice rather than by algorithm, but I think where the well got poisoned was when interaction became incentivized by commercial interests.
Now that online community spaces are so monopolized and corporatized, it's damaged the social trust in genuineness and sincerity because social media has become almost inextricable from performativity and yet has become so entrenched in how we interact with each other.
So it makes some sense that, in a society that largely gets their news and updates about everything from world events to their friend's new baby, some have come to expect it to be the forum someone would go to share their grief. And yet, by its very nature, any released expression of grief posted to social media is going to be scrutinized and accused of being performative. There's simply no winning.
And this is before you really get into the weeds of how it interacts with social expectations of celebrity behavior.
People are insane to celebrities sometimes, imagine ur friend died and strangers on the internet are after you for not making a post on Instagram. Itās ludicrous
There are some reeaally weird Liam fans on here too. I searched their names here to find this video and there's a weird ass post delusionally seeing things in some random promo pic of Harry's and blaming him for not reacting to the death appropriately. They hate all 1D members for "not saying anything" before Liam died as if keeping in touch in fucking private doesnt exist. It was the 3rd post for me š¬Ā
āYou dance until youāre tired. No you donāt now you never will will youā Oh my heart š RIP Liam what a beautiful song so glad Harry was able to have that moment to honor what Liam meant to him.
We donāt know exactly when he wrote it, he just said it was āabout two years agoā but I kinda doubt he was cranking out songs the second he heard the news
me too. burned into my mind. i was in the middle of an anatomy lab, i had sudden nausea from the cadaver which had never happened before. went to the bathroom and my friend had texted me ādonāt look at the news, call me when you canā i instantly started panicking and checked the newsā¦ i didnāt go back into lab and just cried in my car on the phone with my friend.
I was at the library with my friend and remember the exact moment this happened. I swear I felt the world shift differently. I wasn't even a huge directioner growing up but this was so devastating. Then I had that exact same feeling when elections took place 3 weeks later. I swear the sadness around Liam's death was a forewarning of the difficult, heavy feelings to come. I swear we all felt it as a collective
A beautiful tribute. Is this a song that fans knew of before he performed it? Asking because sometimes the unreleased songs are known to hardcore fans.
No it wasnāt known to fans before tonight! He gave a speech before performing it and said that he wrote it 2 years ago (presumably soon after Liamās death)
Itās a callback to disco culture in the 80s. People usually went out dancing wearing business casual because they went straight from work. His stylist explained it a while ago.
Wait, I had no idea Liam Payne died. I was wondering why he disappeared from the music scene bc it seemed like he was having a low(er)-key but steady pulse on the music scene
Wow you missed that? I feel like it was all over the news and it truly shocked me because I remember where I was watching the boys on X Factor in my own living room as a child
I probably saw it and just forgot. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing I'd totally miss, but I'd forget bc I wasnt ever super into 1D or any of their solo music. They each had like 1 solo song I liked lol.
I remember seeing the announcement on my phone cos I was washing the dishes at the sink and made a mad dash for my phone while my hands were still soaking wet
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