A collective dropout resonated as a thunderclap in a valley in our editorial room Daily Beast on Wednesday afternoon at the announcement that singer Liam Payne, who became famous as a member of the management of the One group, died at 31 years old.
TMZ reports This Payne fell from a hotel balcony in Argentina, where he had found group comrades during the Niall Horan 1D concert. According to the site, he behaved “irregularly”, earlier during the day, and had been spotted by breaking a laptop in the hotel hall and having had to be brought back to his room. He had made the headlines of blogs on tensions with his ex-fiancée Maya Henry, who, says TMZ, allegedly alleged: “He had left him after asking him to abort.”
In the shock of his death, fans could not ignore the strange nature that Payne had just connected with her comrades One Direction. Dark questions emerge when a celebrity dies so young: what role did the often horrible assessment of the fame have had on a person like Payne, who was opened on dependence and suicidal ideas? But there is also an impulse to return to the roots of a person's talent, to review what we all fell in love – and was their passion – in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO_IQ35MH5I
Payne auditioned twice for The X factorThe British reality series which formed One Direction in 2010. His second hearing, at the age of 16, is available in whole on the YouTube page of the show and is an endearing reminder of his gifts, even at such a young age.
Cheryl Cole, one of the judges, notes how much he looks like Justin Bieber, with his Shag haircut, his poured bangs and his V-Col t-shirt. He initially auditioned for the show in 2008, which went to the camp of judges with Simon Cowell. He was cut then and admits that he thinks that Cowell did the right thing. “I was really young at the time and I was not ready,” he says. “Now, I'm 16 and I'm back and I'm ready to give him another blow.”
He sings the version of Michael Bubble of “Cry a River”, a big band of the 1950s standard.
The crowd is instantly in its corner. Cowell gives him a smiling sly X Factor Viewers know that his radar crosses a star. At the end of the performance, Cowell gives Payne a standing ovation.
“Liam, by the way,” said Cowell, “at the moment I would not want to be in the place of Michael Bubble looking at this … It was extraordinary. Confidence, fanfaron, charisma, credibility, voice, your appearance: on money.”
In a difficult moment, the pure joy and the celebration of Payne's talent at the very beginning of her career 15 years ago is a cathartic pleasure to see again.
