Going One Direction

Like many young girls back in the day, I was in love with *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys and would obsess over their fun, catchy songs. Although I've certainly grown up, my youthful heart still enjoys old boy band albums. In fact, I've even branched out to UK-popular boy bands like Westlife and Take That!

Another up and coming British pop group is One Direction, a group contestant of UK's singing competition The X Factor. All five members auditioned for the show solo, but were put together as a group at the boot camp stage, after failing to go through as solo acts. Since then, they've seemed to gel together quite nicely and are one of the favorites to win the competition this season. Not only are they immensely talented, but the guys (Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson) are absolutely adorable! British teenage girls are swooning over them, as well as international female X Factor fans.

Even though I am older than these guys (the youngest one, Harry, is 16!), I can't help but adore One Direction. They can rock upbeat songs like Viva La Vida and also ballads such as Total Eclipse of the Heart, and have consistently been strong throughout the whole competition thus far. The group is super talented and have a bright future ahead of them.

Perhaps their strongest performance as of yet is their most recent performance of Elton John's "The Way You Look Tonight." Their singing talent was truly highlighted in this performance, and I can shamelessly say that my heart melted upon watching them sing (just having to ignore the cheesy projections above them).

Although there are other talented contestants on the show with great chances of winning, One Direction have a fantastic shot at making it to the top. Will they be the first group to win X Factor? Their infamously fickle and blunt mentor (as well as X Factor judge) Simon Cowell seems to think so.