VIDEO - One Direction Performs on Saturday Night Live – Shows Us Their Funny Side

One Direction appears on Saturday Night Live

The amazing British boy band “One Direction” finally made their U.S. television debut Saturday night when they appeared as the musical guest on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”.

The show was hosted by “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara, and not only did One Direction perform two songs but they also appeared in one of the comedy sketches.

One Direction members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson performed “That’s What Makes You Beautiful” and “One Thing”.

Watch One Direction perform “What Makes You Beautiful” on SNL


Watch One Direction Perform “One Thing” on Saturday Night Live


The guys also joined together in a comedy sketch called “The Manuel Ortiz Show” - a strange but funny take on late night talk shows in other countries. One Direction is seen toward the end of the sketch (you might want to fast forward) in full comedy makeup and acting goofy.



The boys also made another debut Saturday night when they appeared on the popular "iCarly" TV show. Not only did they perform on the show but they had to memorize tones of dialog and were in almost every scene.

"Having One Direction on set was really cool, we didn't really know what to expect from them, because we had heard that they didn't really have any acting experience because they have a lot of lines and are almost in every scene. So we were uncertain as to how well the shooting would go. But we were all very pleasantly surprised they did very, very well, especially Harry, because he had to pretend to be sick the whole time. ... It was cool, just seeing the five of us mesh with the five of them."

Well, now that the boys have been introduced to U.S. TV viewers we suspect their fame will only continue to skyrocket!

Go get ‘em boys!

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Justin Bieber and One Direction to Collaborate on “Believe” Album!

Justin Bieber and One Direction to collaborate

It looks like Justin Bieber is pulling out all the stops for his upcoming new album “Believe”.

It has already been announced that teen pop star Cody Simpson will appear on one of Bieber’s new tracks, and now there is growing evidence that “One Direction” will also collaborate on a song.

Bieber was in the studio working on his “Believe” album Wednesday night when the boys from One Direction showed up and stayed for quite a long time.

Several hours later the boys took to twitter.

Niall Horan started off the exchange by tweeting:

"In the studio with our boy @justinbieber last night, it's gona sound great!"

Liam Payne confirmed the studio session by tweeiting:

"Got a first listen to Justin Bieber's new album yesterday wowww big songs!!! It's gunna be a smash”.

One Direction has been taking the world by storm and are quickly starting to cannibalize Bieber’s fan base say insiders.

“It makes since for Justin to do a duet with One Direction. There is enough great music out there and enough fans. Today’s electronic editing allows musicians to share tracks over an iPhone and then meet in a studio for a final take that is mixed down later for the final release. In the music business everybody tries to help everybody else out and the benefits go both ways for Bieber and One Direction. They share very similar fan bases and age groups. It makes perfect sense.”

Just as Justin had some amazing collaborations on his Christmas album we should expect this with “Believe”.

In fact, Bieber’s mentor Usher Raymond was also seen in the studio with the Bieb’s this week prompting JB to later tweet:

"Me and @usherraymondiv gotta have a duet on every album."

We also know Will.I.am from the “Black Eyed Peas” will be appearing on the “Believe” album and also co-produced one of the albums tracks specifically for Justin.

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Other names and collaborations to look for on the upcoming album are Timbaland, Drake, Pharrell, Lil Wayne, Ke$ha and Kanye West.

With the exception of Kanye we’re down to hear all the new music!

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Bieber’s latest single “Boyfriend” has already sold more than 600,000 downloads on iTunes and is currently number two on the Billboard Top 200 charts – a first for the singer.

He is also working on a script for an upcoming movie with Mark Wahlberg and just appeared on Ashton Kutcher's revamped “Punk’d” television show on MTV heading off the season punking Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and Sean Kingston.

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Not bad for a kid who just turned 18-years-old.

We suspect that between the music, movies, TV shows, endorsements, merchandize, music producing, and real estate investments that the kids probably going to do all right.

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Video - Ronan Parke Covers “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction

Looks like Sony Music finally threw in the towel and is letting videos of “Britain’s Got Talent” runner up Ronan Parke be seen in the United States.

Ronan, who came is second last year on the popular British singing competition show has been releasing videos in preparation of his upcoming new album.

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His latest cover is by the white hot band “One Direction” - a British and Irish boy band consisting of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. They finished third during season 7 of The “X Factor”.

We are going to post the videos of both Ronan and “One Direction” so you can see how young Parke measures up in this music genre.



Now here is the “One Direction” version from their recently released music video for “What Makes You Beautiful”.



Hmm, we think Ronan might need a year or two to strengthen his vocals a little. But he’s still pretty good at what he does.

By the way, “One Direction” went on to sign a $2 million record deal with Simon Cowell’s production company after their appearance on X Factor.

Ronan also needs to come up with some original songs as so far everything he has done has been a cover of another artists hit single. People are going to want to hear original music if he is going to be successful in the music business.

But hey, at least Sony decided to finally let us see what Ronan is working on these days!

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Video - One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” Scores YouTube Top Ten Video Ranking

I bet a lot of you have never even heard of “One Direction.”

The group is made up of five lads from Britain and they have taken the music scene by storm.

And last week their music video for “What Makes You Beautiful” clocked in at #7 on the YouTube top ten video charts.

One Direction competed during season seven of the popular “X Factor” television show but only managed to come in third place.

But that was all it took.

The band is made up of eighteen year old Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, seventeen year-old Harry Styles, and twenty year-old Louis Tomlinson.

Liam Payne had tried out for “X Factor” before – during season five when he was only 14-years-old but judge Simon Cowell didn’t think he was ready for the competition.

Immediately after the show wrapped filming for the season the boys signed a $2 million recording contract with Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and started working on their first album due out next month.

In the meantime, here is a sneak peak at their just released single “What Makes You Beautiful”.



While the boy band has already published one book detailing their journey on the “X Factor” show, their second book “Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction” is scheduled for release in September 2011.

And the World is anxiously awaiting their debut album due out in late September.

The boys have already launched their official One Direction web site and their official fan club on Facebook.

Initial presale numbers are encouraging and point toward one of the biggest British album debuts in ten years.

Bring it boys!

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