The People’s Choice Awards are undoubtedly, one of the most famous American awards shows to date. These awards exhibit what people think of certain actors, bands, artists and the like. Of course, it also exhibits how these people are somewhat challenged when it comes to choosing their favourite actors, bands, artists etcetera.
Not that they should be judged or criticised for their weakness since they are, after all, called ‘People’s Choice Awards’ and not ‘My-Opinion-is-Obviously-Better-Than-Yours’ awards.
But here in this article, I am free to give my personal opinion which is not all that eyebrow-raising since as I am one of the ‘people’ and hence, I can and shall state my ‘choice’.
And no one can stop me.
The band that I am going to base my choice upon here is One Direction – a band that has earned rather diverse opinions. Even reading this, I am sure that about 50% of the readers would have cringed or raged internally saying,
“Aw, hell naw!”On the other hand, the other half would have ‘fangirled’ (yes, it’s a real term) – squealed, yelled and jumped around – irrespective of their gender which, although I itch to question and debate over, I will refrain from doing.
Before I express my own opinion about One Direction, let us first evaluate the band’s success and talent so that I do not come across as biased in whichever extreme opinion I choose to state.
One Direction initially started off from the X-Factor and the fact that they managed to make it to the third place also suggests that they managed to evade Simon Cowell’s wrath. And anyone who knows X-Factor knows Simon Cowell and hence, knows that the man is vicious at best – which is not a particularly bad thing and I am all for aggressive criticism.
Soon after X-Factor, One Direction literally rocketed, especially in terms of music charts, which is not strange at all because apparently everyone loves pop music with the most ego-boosting lyrics. I mean, who would not swoon at,
“Baby, you light up my world like nobody else.”[embed width="620"]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x127me5_one-direction-what-makes-you-beautiful_music[/embed] Okay, so maybe not many would swoon at those words, but let us not forget that it is the perky 13 to 15-year-olds who rule the internet nowadays. Take that point, add to it the fact that the People’s Choice Awards is also based on online voting for nominations and what do we get? That’s right - One Direction being nominated! And the band was not just nominated once; it was nominated for many categories such as ‘Favourite Breakout Artist’, ‘Favourite Album’, ‘Favourite Song’, ‘Favourite Band’ and ‘Favourite Music Fan Following’. Phew, so many favourites. And let it be known that out of these nominations, One Direction managed to win ‘Favourite Song’, ‘Favourite Band’ and ‘Favourite Album’. [embed width="620"]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x127k9f_one-direction-live-while-we-re-young_music[/embed] Imagine how all the other bands and singers must have felt when they lost to a pop band singing about someone lighting up their world better than electric bulbs, not to mention what Thomas Alva Edison must have thought! Now, don’t get me wrong. I am sure that they did not win all these awards on a whim, there must be something truly great about the band. But the thing is, I am just not that enthusiastic about finding out. Are you? I am pretty sure that my opinion about One Direction is pretty clear from all the above statements. But in case it still isn’t, let me just simply put it this way – if One Direction did not win some award by one vote, I would be the one hoping that my vote to some other band made them lose. Signing out! PS: I really hope I don’t have an angry mob of One Direction fans breaking down my door.
