{"id":803801,"date":"2020-02-04T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=947215"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:58:18","slug":"the-first-time-louis-tomlinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-first-time-louis-tomlinson\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Louis Tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the heels of his debut solo album Walls<\/em><\/a>, released last week, Louis Tomlinson<\/a> sat down for a chat with Rolling Stone<\/em> about some of his career highlights, like the time he performed with Steve Aoki in his first ever X-Factor<\/em> appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a really special moment for me,\u201d Tomlinson recalled. \u201cThere was a lot of pressure on my shoulders that day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after Tomlinson and the rest of One Direction<\/a> \u201cgraduated\u201d from their UK X-Factor<\/em> run, they felt their first brush with international fame when they were in Sweden for a recording session. Tomlinson remembers that a group of fans unexpectedly turned up outside the studio. \u201cThat was a real eye-opening moment for us, that even people outside of our own country know us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer also discussed some of his early influences, like Green Day\u2019s Bullet in a Bible<\/em> live album and DVD, as well as instances where he\u2019s stood up for himself professionally. \u201cIn the first 18 months of making [Walls<\/em>], I had a lot of sessions that I was frustrated with, and not necessarily because of quality \u2014 more down to taste, and the way that some of the sounds felt to me. So I think I had to go through the frustration, and then had this one moment where I kind of just thought, \u2018I\u2019m gonna follow my heart and do what I love, instead of trying to be so focused on radio.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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

On the heels of his debut solo album Walls, released last week, Louis Tomlinson sat down for a chat with Rolling Stone about some of his career highlights, like the time he performed with Steve Aoki in his first ever X-Factor appearance. \u201cThat was a really special moment for me,\u201d Tomlinson recalled. \u201cThere was a lot […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 18:51:18","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}