One Direction
I don't think I've ever heard a One Direction song. If so, I didn't remember it.I thought about them this weekend, though, after Liam Payne's death. He threw himself off a balcony. He was thirty-one.
It made me think about what life must have been like for him. What do you do when your life has clearly peaked when you're twenty-two? His solo career had slowly declined, and his label dumped him.
Twenty-two. Another fifty or sixty years of life, knowing you can never be what you used to be, if you use fame as a measure.
That would be hard. Oppressively so, really.
Some professions peak very, very young. Boy bands. Female gymnasts. Mathematicians. It's a strange list. I'd like to say something profound about who makes it and who doesn't and why, but it all feels trite, because I don't know if I could do it myself. Who could?
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