The New Statesman
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Liam Payne died aged 31 after falling from a balcony at a hotel in Argentina .
He was dehumanized his entire life, by the music industry machine that made him famous, by tabloids, by social media, and even by his own fans.
He became a pin-up poster, then a literal doll (you could collect all five ) The fantasy that One Direction represented to a generation was always codependent.
One Direction was an eccentric name for a boyband.
But it inadvertently suggested something darker that a youthful, fresh-faced boyband can only last so long.
As the novelist Samantha Hunt once wrote: “ one direction is, of course, the only choice they, we, get”.
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