![]() They don’t dance, they’re not particularly enthusiastic, and though their disdain isn’t palpable, their self-awareness always is. They play the part almost resentfully, with the mien of people who know better. And continuing to call One Direction a boy band is simply wrong. Almost from the beginning, its members - Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson - have seemed older than the job required, even though they are just 19 to 21. Cowell was referring to a corollary of the immutable law of boy bands: The band’s fans age, but the band generally does not. “Eventually, they probably will split up and maybe want to have their own careers,” he said, a statement that most likely sent shivers down the tiny spines of One Direction fans but is, of course, merely stating the obvious. ![]() In the current issue of Billboard, at the end of the cover feature on One Direction, there is a cooling mist of reality spritzed by, who else, Simon Cowell, the TV judge-impresario who helped Frankenstein this group into existence on the 2010 season of the British version of “The X Factor.”
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