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

Liam Payne’s Best Moments in One Direction

Liam Payne gave the world so much in a short time. That’s why the pop world is reeling this week in shock and grief over the tragic news of his death on Tuesday. People loved Payne because he had so ...
Wane

One Direction was the internet’s first boy band, and Liam Payne its grounding force

Liam Payne’s voice is the first one heard in the culture-shifting boy band One Direction’s debut single: “What Makes You Beautiful” launches into a bouncy guitar riff, a cheeky and borderline ...
CNN

One Direction was more than a band for many fans. Liam Payne’s death marks an end of an era

Mikaela Dee spent much of her childhood in a hospital bed. Dee was chronically ill, in and out of the hospital so much that her family elected to homeschool her. Her friends were distant; most of her ...