Liam Payne - LP1 review

The Guardian 20

(Capitol)
One Direction’s Mr Boring lets his inner sexual piranha loose – with frightening results

Liam Payne recently lamented that when One Direction’s management realised he was the sensible one, they made him keep his bandmates in check. Getting cast as Mr Boring was annoying, he explained, yielding him the least screams from fans. Happily for Payne, solo freedom has let him reap maximum screams and embrace his officiousness: with 3.7bn streams, he is the most commercially popular 1D member.

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