It seems Liam Payne is still desperate to ditch his reputation as the Gary Barlow of One Direction. That much was clear when he released his debut album LP1 (a good title, shame FKA Twigs had it first) last week, where he, according to The Guardian’s scathing one star review, ‘let his inner sexual piranha loose’. He sang about threesomes. He also, on another track, sang that it might be a bad idea to meet a girl in a car park, as he’ll ‘probably do [her] ass in the car’. I think we can all agree, It Was All A Bit Much.
He is the opposite to ex-bandmate Harry Styles, an enigmatic rockstar, who isn’t quite comfortable with being called a sex icon (even though there’s no way Watermelon Sugar isn’t about cunnilingus) and isn't collaborating with the likes of Rita Ora and J Balvin just to get plays in the club.
Liam and Harry were in One Direction together for six years, both weathering the storm when Zayn acrimoniously left in March 2015. But, now, sadly, Liam thinks he doesn’t even know what he’d say to Harry if he bumped into at the pub (or, more likely, the Chiltern Firehouse). Speaking to The Face, he said, ‘There's so much mystery around who he's become. I was looking at some pictures of him the other day, and I just thought: "I don't know what more I'd say to him other than, 'Hello' and 'How are you?".’
He then - wait for it - describes himself as the ‘antichrist version’ of Harry, which we’re still trying to process. ‘I mean, look at the stuff I put out and the stuff Harry puts out,’ he continued. ‘Polar opposite. I'm like the antichrist version of what Harry is.' The popstar also says he’d look ‘weird’ if he wore the same clothes as Harry - which is, probably, fair enough; Liam is the face of Hugo Boss, whereas Styles is Gucci's darling, and quite literally co-hosted this year's Met Gala.
'Weird' fashion aside, when he doesn't know what they'd say to each other, we’re not holding our hopes out for a reunion any time soon.
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