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  • - (man, Brooklyn accent) So I said to her, "Angelina, I want to."

  • I really, really want to.

  • - (squealing) I can't believe I got this video!

  • - Ah! My boys!

  • - (seriously) You're gonna make us watch One Direction.

  • - (groans deeply)

  • - (woman) One Direction. They're making their new movie.

  • - We've already seen this a few times.

  • We've actually had several meetings about how much we hate it.

  • - (man) It's gonna be the greatest movie of all time.

  • - He actually has a good accent.

  • - (man) We want to introduce you to our marketing guy.

  • - Their hair is so amazing.

  • - (man) Marcel! - (Marcel) Hi.

  • I want you to meet Leeroy. - Ooh, Harry.

  • - (Marcel) He's gonna be your choreographer.

  • Leeroy! Hmm.

  • - 52 million views in a week.

  • - Huh? Were you checking? - (chuckles)

  • - (Leeroy) Five, six, seven, eight.

  • ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ And one, two, three, four,

  • five, six, seven, eight.

  • - (Marcel) This one is the one.

  • ♪ (faint synthpop) ♪ - Less clothes.

  • - (Louis Tomlinson) We'd never wear that.

  • - (Marcel) This one. - Less clothes.

  • ♪ (upbeat pop rock) ♪

  • - Wait. Oh god. Is this a music video?

  • - Oh, this is a video.

  • - ♪ Maybe it's the way she walked

  • - I've never actually seen a One Direction video.

  • - (chuckling) What is up with that man-woman?

  • - (laughing) Zayn is not cute as a girl.

  • - (Todd) ♪ Stealing [bleep] from everybody else

  • - Don't tell them what we're gonna write.

  • (both laugh)

  • - Just wanna shoot him. - (laughs)

  • - ♪ She said, "Never in your wildest dreams" ♪

  • And we

  • - (singing along) ♪ Danced all night

  • - (singing along) ♪ To the best song ever

  • - ♪ We knew every line

  • Now I can't remember

  • How it goes but I know

  • That I won't forget her

  • ♪ 'Cause we danced all night to the best song ever

  • - I'm upset with you guys right now.

  • - Are these guys peeing in buckets yet?

  • - ♪ I think it went oh, oh, oh

  • - It's not like they don't have talent.

  • It's just like, it's not my style of music, you know?

  • - It's very, very debatable.

  • - I'm trying to ease us into it

  • so we don't get so much hate for this.

  • - Literally I can't stop smiling.

  • (cracking up) Like, I'm trying not to.

  • - Aren't they so attractive?

  • - Harry just looks so cool,

  • even when he's doing some stupid dance.

  • - I'm gonna get so much [bleep] for actually liking this song.

  • - ♪ I think it went oh, oh, oh

  • - Oh man, pelvic thrusts.

  • - I think they trained for a while for that move.

  • - This is like the next "Gangnam Style."

  • ♪ (interlude plays) ♪

  • - ♪ Best song ever ♪ - Don't do it!

  • Illuminati right there.

  • - ♪ Best song ever

  • - "This is us." Look at how genuine.

  • - Best video ever. Love it.

  • - They were doing Illuminati.

  • - Jesse... - Hold up.

  • - You're obsessed with those videos. - No.

  • ♪ (dramatic chord) ♪

  • - (Finebros) So who was that group? - One Direction!

  • - That was my boys, One Direction.

  • - One Direction! Yay! Oh my gosh!

  • - 1D.

  • - One Direction! - 1D.

  • - I believe that was One Direction.

  • - It's Mark's favorite group. - Shut up.

  • - (Finebros) What did you think of their music video?

  • - It was good.

  • - I loved it.

  • - (Jesse) I thought it was cool. - The song sounded pretty good.

  • - I've watched that video probably

  • realistically maybe 50 times now.

  • - It's flawless. It's perfect. They delivered it.

  • It's their best video ever.

  • - It's pretty terrible.

  • - It was like the most produced garbage.

  • - (Finebros) What's the music video about?

  • - Is this about rebelling against Hollywood?

  • - It's a certain phase that boy bands get to where they're like--

  • NSYNC, where like, "No strings attached!"

  • - (feminine) Nuh-uh! I'm not doing choreographed moves!

  • - It was somebody's idea for them to do that.

  • - "We're not part of the machine,

  • even though we're part of the machine.

  • We're a part of the machine that's not a part of the machine."

  • (Finebros snicker) One Direction 2013.

  • - Same ideas get recycled.

  • We see that as NSYNC and Backstreet Boys.

  • My cousin saw it as New Kids on the Block.

  • - You have to look at it from a standpoint of,

  • okay, so One Direction is recycling an idea

  • that these kids who are now 12 years old don't know.

  • - (Finebros) And what's your opinion of the song itself?

  • - I don't even remember what they were singing about.

  • - It was the best song ever. - (chuckles)

  • - I don't think it was the best song ever.

  • Maybe top 500 best songs ever.

  • - It makes you feel happy.

  • You can't listen to that and not want to jump around.

  • - It's not the most intellectual song

  • that evokes lots of meaning, but it's fun. It gets in your head.

  • - A monkey could write this stuff.

  • But at the same time, my cousin will be playing it in the car

  • and I'll be dancing.

  • - (Finebros) Does it remind you of any other song?

  • - No.

  • - No. It kinda reminds me of their other song.

  • - It's every summer thing that you blast on a [bleep] radio.

  • - "Baba O'Riley."

  • - And that's like Tenacious D.

  • "Best Song Ever." Greatest song in the world, right?

  • - They copied someone. (both chuckle)

  • - Are you about to break my heart?

  • Why? Is it taking from somebody else?

  • It's original.

  • - (Finebros) "Best Song Ever" has been criticized

  • for being similar to many other songs,

  • including The Who's "Baba O'Riley."

  • ♪ ("Baba O'Riley" opening instrumental) ♪ - Oh.

  • Oh no.

  • - That's the same chords, heh-heh.

  • - ♪ Maybe it's the way she... ♪ Yeah.

  • - Oh, so they're pulling a Vanilla Ice on us right now.

  • - That's terrible.

  • If my dad heard that, he'd be so angry.

  • - Maybe that's why I loved it

  • and felt just so at home with the song,

  • because I already knew it.

  • - (Finebros) Does that type of stuff matter to you

  • when it comes to liking a song or not,

  • if it has very similar elements to other people's work?

  • - I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg

  • for what's horrible about this particular song.

  • - Oh, absolutely.

  • - Yes, it does.

  • I think it's important to be original.

  • - If it's just like, "We're gonna steal it

  • and nobody's gonna notice," not a huge fan of that.

  • - I feel like if it's different enough, I don't care.

  • - It doesn't make me like the song less,

  • 'cause I can't help how much I love the song.

  • - No really. Not when it's One Direction.

  • - I think that they can do no wrong.

  • I think they could kill a baby in their music video,

  • and I'd be like, "You know what? Great performance.

  • Like, they really stuck to it. Good for them."

  • - I think probably, in One Direction's case,

  • they didn't put their own original spin in it.

  • Because in the first place-- - Care what you're saying, Jack.

  • Fandom is out there. - They weren't musicians

  • in the first place. They weren't a band, were they?

  • Like, the songs are written for them. - I'm not saying anything.

  • - One Direction are great.

  • - (Finebros) One Direction's YouTube channel

  • now has almost 8 million subscribers. - Wow.

  • - (Finebros) What are your thoughts about mainstream artists

  • becoming some of the most subscribed YouTube channels?

  • - Well, I think they're probably one of the Vevo artists

  • that actually got the views.

  • So I think that's really, really cool. Uh... (chuckles)

  • - Why are they growing so fast though?

  • They're all on a sidebar, right, for being promoted.

  • - I personally think that's cool.

  • 'Cause when you see names like Smosh, PewDiePie, Rihanna,

  • and it's just like, you got the regular guys up there

  • dancing with the big dogs.

  • - They're, like, mega super famous.

  • And right above them is Jenna Marbles and YouTubers.

  • Like, I think it's kinda dope.

  • - I guess they do bring more people to the YouTube universe.

  • So if they're putting more people in front of my videos,

  • then I'm fine.

  • - I don't think that's it's fair for them

  • to be put in the same category as YouTubers.

  • - I wish they were kind of like in separate lists.

  • But to the normal person,

  • I don't think they consume the list as much as we do.

  • If I had 8 million subscribers, I'd be like--

  • I would wear a name tag all day long, "8 million subscribers."

  • They probably don't even know.

  • Like, they've never said, "Make sure you subscribe."

  • - It's hard 'cause you start to lose

  • that homegrown aspect of YouTube.

  • - You have to work on your channel. If you ever logged in--

  • If you don't know the password to your channel,

  • you shouldn't be in the top 10.

  • (clang!) - (Finebros) Truth!

  • Why do you think One Direction's become so popular?

  • - 'Cause Simon Cowell is behind them.

  • - They're just nice lads.

  • - Because they're hot, they're young, Harry's a part of it.

  • - They're cute UK boys. - Cute?

  • - I... they're good-looking dudes.

  • - (British accent) Guys like them. Women love them.

  • Children adore them.

  • - YouTube is basically like Nickelodeon if you could say [bleep].

  • - Honestly, I was laying in bed thinking this.

  • There's always a season for the boy bands.

  • So these guys are right now that boy band that's hitting it.

  • - They are sex icons. Like these girls--

  • you don't want to see the tweets they send to these boys.

  • And they're, like, 14-year-old girls.

  • And I send the same tweets, so it's all good.

  • - (Finebros) You didn't mention anything about their music.

  • - And I still stand by what I said. (titters)

  • - (Finebros) One Direction has a documentary movie coming out

  • about their rise to fame. Will you see that movie?

  • - No. - How long have they been a band? A year?

  • - (dramatically) From all the way back in six months ago,

  • charting the entire progress of One Direction.

  • - Yes.

  • - Yep. I'm going to the premiere of that. I'm so excited.

  • - Of course I plan to watch.

  • I want to go to the premiere. I want to go to everything.

  • - I'll watch it. I watched the Bieber movie, man.

  • I watched the Katy Perry movie. I don't know why.

  • - You know what? I'm probably gonna tell everyone I won't,

  • and I'll secretly download, watch in my room.

  • - Probably not. - I wouldn't go in theaters and see it.

  • - I can barely sit through the music video.

  • If I have to sit through an hour and a half of them like,

  • "Hey! We're just normal people," I will die.

  • - (Finebros) Prediction time.

  • Five years from now, where is One Direction?

  • - I hope they'd still be together,

  • but I don't know that they will.

  • - They're gonna split up.

  • Harry Styles is gonna be the Justin Timberlake.

  • - I imagine Harry Styles' manager three weeks into One Direction

  • was like, "You're gonna do this for a year to two years,

  • and then solo career."

  • - One's gonna have a drug addiction. - (scoffs)

  • - One's gonna be gay. - Don't say that.

  • - This is what's gonna happen.

  • - Harry Styles will have knocked somebody up.

  • The girls are crying watching this right now.

  • - They're gonna last another three more years,

  • then pop punk's gonna come back, then grunge rock,

  • and then Creed's probably gonna come back.

  • I don't know. - Oh god, I hope not.

  • - And then, like... - Nickelback!

  • - Nickelback never went away, unfortunately.

  • - One Direction will stay together,

  • and they will still look fresh-faced

  • and be producing flawless singles.

  • - They are going to be gone.

  • But then 10 years from now, they'll be back.

  • I turn on the TV the other day, Backstreet Boys are out.

  • And they're not boys. - Backstreet's back?

  • - Yeah. - All right!

  • (both laugh)

  • - ♪ This is the end of the best React ever

  • (chuckles) Oh my god,

  • you actually want that as the end of your video.

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  • - Bye!

  • - Thanks for watching and...

  • - (both) ...peace on the street, son! - (blows kiss)

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