{"id":491323,"date":"2019-10-16T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=899486"},"modified":"2019-10-16T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:57:28","slug":"liam-payne-says-staying-in-one-direction-wouldve-killed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/liam-payne-says-staying-in-one-direction-wouldve-killed-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Payne Says Staying in One Direction \u2018Would\u2019ve Killed\u2019 Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liam Payne<\/a> spoke candidly about how \u201cmega stressful\u201d being in One Direction<\/a> had been during an appearance on Jessie Ware<\/a>\u2019s podcast Table Manners<\/em>. Payne recently released the solo single \u201cStack It Up<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his hour-long appearance on the podcast, which Ware co-hosts with her mother, Payne gave intimate details about the pains and triumphs of his career and personal life.<\/p>\n

The singer noted that One Direction\u2019s schedule had been a complete \u201cmess,\u201d with tours sold out before they had even written and recorded the albums. \u201cThere\u2019s no stop button,\u201d he recalled. \u201cYou\u2019ve got no control over your life. That\u2019s why I lost complete control of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his time in the group, Payne saw himself settling into bad habits he couldn\u2019t immediately break once he was on his own, like the imbalance of partying with a heavy workload. He looked at the history of former teen idols, fearing that same fate: \u201cYou\u2019re either going to end up a crazy child star who dies at whatever age, or you\u2019re going to live life and actually get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Over the last two years, he has done retreats and taken the time to reclaim some of his lost youth, learning \u201chow to be a person\u201d while raising his own son Bear. Since the hiatus was announced, he has not stayed in touch with his bandmates, likening them to former coworkers he didn\u2019t have much in common with.<\/p>\n

Later in the interview, he recalls how sudden the fame of the band was. He knew that they had become well-known in the UK, but once they traveled to places like Australia soon after the group\u2019s stint on The X-Factor<\/em> wrapped, they saw how big everything had really become.<\/p>\n

During that early time, Payne learned to become a \u201crecluse.\u201d The band had been overworked and he lacked much of a personal life. \u201cI remember getting to therapy and the guy was like \u2018What do you like to do?\u2019 I didn\u2019t know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For Payne, One Direction parting ways in 2016 was \u201creally scary at first\u201d but he is happy that it ended. \u201cI needed to stop. It would\u2019ve killed me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Following the release of Payne\u2019s interview, former Interpol member Carlos Dengler weighed in on his experience in the rock band. \u201cI too was in a \u2018boy band\u2019 and I too would\u2019ve died had I stayed,\u201d the bassist said. \u201cI\u2019m with you 100% my man\u201d<\/p>\n

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I too was in a “boy band” and I too would’ve died had I stayed. I’m with you 100% my man: https:\/\/t.co\/JbBctmoqfx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Carlos Dengler (@denglercarlos) October 16, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liam Payne spoke candidly about how \u201cmega stressful\u201d being in One Direction had been during an appearance on Jessie Ware\u2019s podcast Table Manners. Payne recently released the solo single \u201cStack It Up.\u201d During his hour-long appearance on the podcast, which Ware co-hosts with her mother, Payne gave intimate details about the pains and triumphs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 01:37:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}