Up All Night
| One Direction
Up All Night
Up All Night is the debut studio albumby English-Irish boy band One Direction, released by Syco Recordsin November 2011 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, followed by a worldwide release during 2012. Four months after finishing third in the seventh series of British reality singing contest The X Factor in December 2010, One Direction began recording the album in Sweden, UK and the United States, working with a variety of writers and producers. The album is predominantly a pop music album which orientates into pop rock, dance-pop, teen pop and power pop. The album's lyrical content regards being young, relationships, heartbreak and empowerment. Staged in support of the album, One Direction performed the album's songs live on televised shows, at awards ceremonies, and during their worldwide Up All Night Tour. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
One Direction are simply five pretty guys with a few decent songs and not much personality. Call them One Dimension.
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Digital Spy
An adorable debut with a surprising amount of bite.
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Sputnik Music
Lovely singing voices can't save this album from mild mediocrity.
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Huffington Post
Up All Night is full of surprisingly varied tracks, songs with British accents that somehow managed to sneak in, and a generally over-romantic cheesiness that can only be attributed to a boy band.
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Pop Matters
Up All Night is a little bit of a revelation when it comes to tweenybopper bubblegum pop in that it doesn’t suck. Really.
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Hollywood Life
Up All Night’ proves that, not only are boy bands back, but they’re on the verge of a renaissance — and One Direction is leading the pack.
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Entertainment Weekly
If a tween-pop empire is what these boys are after, they’re definitely headed in the right direction.
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All Music
By making this album perfectly inoffensive, artistically ambiguous, and freakin' adorable, One Direction is perfectly positioned to take the world by storm.
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Daily Star
EASILY the hottest new boyband of the year, they make the most of fame with an album that doesn’t take the easy route.
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The West Australian
For most of us, that's fun, thoroughly listenable and this week's pop, while for the tweens they're songs to crush to.
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The Province
One Direction? Bad to worse.
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What Culture
Not to my liking, but if you’re a 13 year old girl with space in your heart now that Bieber has been outed as a fertility machine, you’re going to love this record.
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OK! Magazine
Sadly on the whole the album sounds a wee bit samey (ie boring), but the boys do chuck in a couple of smoochy slowies.
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taks listen
Up All Night, like One Direction itself, was manufactured in some pop factory by evil genius writers and producers with the sole intent of taking over the world.
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Best Fan Blog
BestFan has had this album on repeat since it came out and have picked our favourite song titled “One Thing”, which is expected to be the next single here in North America!
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Golden Plec
I have to say that One Direction have delivered a solid pop album, placing themselves on par with their well established counterparts like JLS. It is a great fun pop album.
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