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November 14

One Direction

Does anyone in One Direction write their own songs or play their own instruments? --SolliGwaa (talk) 20:52, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

If you open the article about any One Direction album, you can look to see who the songwriters for every song are. Their first album Up All Night (One Direction album) has songs the members wrote or co-wrote. Insofar as voice is an actual instrument, they also do that as well. --Jayron32 00:38, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Worth noting that credits on an album don't actually mean much. At that level, contributing the change of a word is enough to get co-writing points on the album. See, for example, Madonna's Ray of Light album--William Orbit wrote virtually every note, but she gets a credit for small pieces added. Album credits are much like movie credits--the bigger the act, the more credits they will receive on the final product. Ipsissima Verba (talk) 05:16, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

They have a regular touring band - here, here, etc. - who tour with them and provide onstage instrumentation. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:56, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Avid Directioner here bc what else is a teenage fangirl to do, but I know for certain having attended multiple concerts that Niall Horan, the Irish left-handed lad who's scared of pigeons, frequently plays guitar on stage. zayn is still bae tho ~Helicopter Llama~ 01:26, 18 November 2014 (UTC)