Episode 5
1 Direction, 1 Crazy Fandom
Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network
Show Name: The Fan & The Foe
Episode Title: 1 Direction, 1 Crazy Fandom
You are listening to The Fan and the Foe podcast with your host(s) Gabbi and Louisa.
In this episode of The Fan and the Foe we will be discussing One Direction, and the crazy fans that follow them.
Segment 1: 1D background and rise to fame
Gabbi: In 2010 4 British and 1 Irish guys came on to essentially the British equivalent of America's got Talent, called the x-factor, Simon Cowell included, they came as soloists and left as the biggest boy band since the Backstreet Boys.
They released the absolute banger What Makes You Beautiful that is still played at every school function, wedding and grocery store that I've ever been to, even 15 years later. But hey! Everyone knows it's fantastic so why not.
Originally there were 5 members of 1D, Liam Paine, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, and Niall Horan and together they release 4 albums, Zayn left the group after a fall out and then they released their last album before they went on what they called an “18 month hiatus” which ten years later fans are still waiting for a comeback from. Y'know I too am waiting for a new 1D song or album or better yet a tour, but it'll never be the same as liam passed this year.
Candlelight vigil on hiatus
Up all night
Take me home
Midnight memories
Made in the AM
Four
They have all had very successful solo careers
Segment 2: Banter and Trivia
Louisa: On a scale of 1 to 10, how unhinged are you people?
Gabbi: like… a 15. Minimum.
Louisa: . See? You didn’t even hesitate.
Gabbi: There’s nothing to hesitate about! We were dedicated and committed. And probably Willing to go to war in a mall parking lot for a guy
Louisa: You say that like it’s normal.
Gabbi:if you heard a rumor that Harry was spotted at a random Whole Foods, wouldn’t you sprint there?
Louisa: uhhh No! I’d continue buying groceries like a sane person, but maybe want to crop a picture but like that's it! He's a person too and deserves to have his own space and function like a normal human being. But I know you would abandon carts, and dignity.
Gabbi: Dignity was never part of the One Direction experience. That’s step one but you wouldn't get out. You get in the fandom, you hand over your dignity, you pick up a poster, write a fan fiction and then you scream!
Louisa: Honestly that sounds like joining a cult. Common theme huh. Maybe we should rename this podcast so it reflects cults instead of fandoms
Gabbi: But it is a fun cult, though.
Louisa: CUTE? Gabbi, you people tracked flight numbers.
Gabbi: Okay okay thats wierd
Louisa: This is why I can't be with you and your logic sometimes. You treat every bit of information like it’s national security intelligence.
Gabbi: Because it was to some people I guess! At any moment, the members could appear.
Louisa: You’re describing it like One Direction was the Hunger Games.
Gabbi: Hunger games??!!! I love the hunger games
Louisa: I swear to God.
Gabbi: you said it first
Louisa: Okay but honestly… Why are y’all so loud? Like astronomically loud. You could probably hear a Directioner scream from two zip codes away because I read there were so many noise complaints around concerts.
Gabbi: Because we have feelings duhh,
Louisa: loud ones…
Gabbi: Hey.
Louisa: I get emotional too but like never to the point where I’m sobbing so hard I can’t breathe because Liam winked.
Gabbi: Finee, but like who wouldnt want liam to wink at them yk
Louisa: whatever dude
Gabbi: Anyways, i think we should bring back the trivia, so I'm going to give you three questions to answer
Louisa: oooh okay, trying to distract me from winning this argument I see
Gabbi: whatever whatever. Anyways, Ill give you the questions then weet cur for a break, and return with your answers: :
Louisa: sounds good
Gabbi: So 4 of the 5 band members are British but one of them is from Ireland. Guess who? (niall)
Even though the band was suuuper successful they didn’t even win the x-factor. What did they place? (3rd)
What year did Zayn quit the band? 2015
We will come back with the answers after this short break
Louisa: answer to the best of your ability
Segment 3: Crazy Fan encounter
Louisa: So, like always, we have a few situations that have happened to the members of 1D. But we actually also found some rituals or information that you needed to know if you wanted to be considered a REAL 1D stan.
Gabbi: …I think I may know where this is going
Louisa: Well there's only one way you would know…
Gabbi: No. I never participated in said activity.
Louisa: Okay then…anyways, basically, in order to be declared a true 1D fan, you had to know each of the members blood types.
Gabbi: yup. I saw that coming
Louisa: And GAbbi, get this: If you wanted to be a super 1D stan, you had to know their blood types, birth times AND family information.
Gabbi: That's creepy. Like actually obsessive psychopathic behavior
Louisa: I KNOW. like there's no way they're in the right mind.
Gabbi: yea, they definitely aren't
Louisa: Okay one more fan encounter to keep on with tradition here. While this isn’t one specific instance, I think it still deserved to be mentioned because it's something very prominent within the 1D community. Basically, people- boys and girls- write fan fictions about the members of the band, then either mail them to them, or give them to them after shows.
Gabbi: I mean I think that as weird as that may be, it has become normalized by so many people.
Louisa: What? There's nothing normal about that.
Gabbi: I mean there's definitely not but so many people do it now, that it's not some foreign concept.
Louisa: I guess that's fair, but definitely think it's a good ending point for this week's episode.
Gabbi: Well see you next time, and, as always stay nerdy
Louisa: Or don’t!
Music Credits:
Introduction
Website where you got the song from: YouTube Audio Library
Song Title: F16
Artist: The Grey Room/ Golden Palms
Licensing: YouTube Audio Library License
Outro
Song Title: Merry Go Round
Artist: Telecasted
Licensing: YouTube Audio Library
