One Direction’s Songwriters: They’re What Make the Boy Band Beautiful

One Direction’s Take Me Home is the year-end, last-chance hope of the record business. It’s aimed straight at the adolescent girls who swooned en masse over last year’s fusillade of compliments “What Makes You Beautiful,” and who did it again recently for the politely insistent seduction “Live While We’re Young.” Those girls, as it happens, are just about the last faithful purchasers of CDs left. Up All Night, One Direction’s debut, came out in the U.S. in March, and has since ...

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