The Cheat Sheet

One Direction Ripped Off the Backstreet Boys’ ‘I Want It That Way’

One Direction garnered comparisons to the Backstreet Boys simply for being the most popular boy band to debut since the 1990s. Furthermore, One Direction ripped off the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It ...
Rolling Stone

I Owe One Direction Everything. Liam Payne’s Death Means Mourning My Memories

One Direction have always been better at saying goodbye than I could ever be. I’ve always struggled with the finality of farewell, always jumping through as many mental hoops as I needed to in order ...
Variety

I Started a One Direction Stan Account to Find My Tribe. I’ve Revived It to Process Liam Payne’s Death

After nearly half a decade spent obsessively keeping up with One Direction in my youth, one of the first things I did after finding out Liam Payne died in Buenos Aires on Oct. 16 was re-open the ...
Page Six

I had a front-row seat to One Direction’s rise to fame — here’s how drugs, girls and stress tore them apart

One Direction found fame inside a nondescript North London TV studio, next to a McDonald’s and opposite a kebab shop — and I had a front row seat for the making of the world’s biggest boy band. Harry ...
MassLive

Dear Abby: I’m struggling to find direction as a college student

Dear Abby: I’m a 23-year-old college student struggling to find direction in life. I’ve been trying to find a part-time job and an internship, but I have had no success. This leaves me increasingly ...