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The cyclical nature of the story when it comes to pop music, is even more pronounced: each generation of teenagers idols that will be taken for a ride by a generation of adults. Then teens get older and idols, with maturity and nostalgia in equal measure, are re-evaluated and reclassified: sometimes there is a place for them in the history of music and find out what they told of their (and our) time. But it will be perceived always better than those who are screaming girls today. For every "but how can they hear 'this stuff?" there is a potential Justin Timberlake or Robbie Williams or even Michael Jackson.
And what the heck, we were able to reevaluate even the Spice Girls.
The idols of the moment are the One Direction and, like all the idols of the moment that you meet, have broken all records. Judge their new album (the second) when you have a bit 'of years of difference compared to the original target is a privilege to be used with caution: you can expose all the tricks of the case strofinandoti beard pleased, but then you realize that only having a beard makes you inadequate listening, and you can dismiss it with the cynicism of those who already know the script, but do not really know anything. And there's a surprise.
The biggest surprise is that "Take me home" sounds dated. If the biggest success so far of the 1D ("What makes you beautiful") quoted shamelessly "Grease" (1978), the new single opening steals the riff to "Should I stay or should I go" (1982) and the seventh track proceeds from "We Will Rock You" (1977).
The suspicion is that it is not revival, but lack of ideas: there is never an unexpected solution in the arrangements or melodies, and the result is a pop / rock tiepidino already tested the first album. And if the sounds do not come out from territories rather than known, the language adds another layer of beige work. For 42 minutes waiting for a particular word, a rhyme that links this record to its year of publication, something that can wink a person under twenty years now - perhaps by an adult feel unprepared. Instead, "Take me home" looks placed in a space-time bubble where there is no entertainment, fashion or technology - the exact opposite of that other idol obsessed with swag and raised in collaborations "credible" with the rapper.
"We do not want our music seems written for us by a forty year old in an office," he said in an interview with a 1D. Too bad that the impression is just that, and also that forty is still used ink and does not care too much about some short circuits detectors ("I know we just met, but let's pretend it's love" is a line with a bit 'too hindsight for a puppy love).
It is not a coincidence that the two most compelling songs ("Little Things" and "Over again") come from their own age Ed Sheeran - after all, want to believe the legend, texts are discarded by the singer and not "are two verses and a half What should I do, I leave? ". The first dusting off the old topos of the girl to console because you do not like it (every generation needs its own "Bad" by Alessandro Canino!), The second is a declaration of love in which "only" rhymes with "Polo" (the hole in the heart with mint around). In the context of an album that has fourteen producers, signed by Sheeran acoustic songs sound more fresh and sincere than any dance piece tailor-made in Sweden.
And maybe this is the direction we should take a group who could not dance. Choreographed boy bands of the 90s no longer have place in the market post-Cowell, in which playback is a disgrace and the public is trained to judge the smallest imperfection voice. If One Direction have the opportunity to become a mature group and durable, let him do it sitting down.
