The Glow

For some pop stars, tour burnout is an increasing problem, with Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Justin Bieber , Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Sam Fender and Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Shawn Mendes cancelling concerts for the sake of their mental and physical health. Despite a major tour this year, former Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>One Direction star Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Louis Tomlinson has avoided Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Curse .

Tomlinson says he's never happier than when he's on Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Road .

" I Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Just Love the lifestyle, " he says. " Maybe a little bit too much. "

The former Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Boy Band member can sympathise with those who find the Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Late Nights , constant travel and feelings of dislocation playing havoc with their body's chemistry, and having an impact on their strength and resilience.

He's seen up close Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Toll that touring took on his old bandmate Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Zayn Malik , whose Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Panic Attacks eventually forced him to stop playing live.

But Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Secret to Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Staying On an even keel, Tomlinson believes, is avoiding hotel rooms. " Eventually, you lose Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Feeling of home. " Instead, he sleeps on Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Tour bus with his band, settling into a bunk " that stays the same every day".

" I'm not one of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Those People who demands a master bedroom at the back of the bus, " he says. " As If I'm going to climb into my double bed and say goodnight to Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Band as Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>They Crawl into tiny bunks. No.

" My bunk is like all of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Others . And it's Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Best night's sleep you can get. Once you've shut that curtain and all the lights are off, it's Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Pitch Black and Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Noise of the engine just lulls you to sleep. It's dead nice, man. "

Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Singer has spent Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Best part of 2022 Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>On Tour , playing 80 shows to Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>More Than half Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>A Million fans Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>In America , Iceland, Argentina, Australia, Mexico, Chile and the UK.

" Without being too grumpy about all Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Other sides of my job, touring is the truest form of what I do, " he says. " Radio, press interviews, record Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Labels . . There 's so much mystery within that. You know, 'I hope that if I do this, it means this is going to happen'.

" Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>On Tour , what you See is what you get. People have paid money to come and watch your show and you get an instant reaction. There 's no complication in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Middle . You're not trying to read between the lines. "

Tomlinson has a reputation for giving interviewers a Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Hard Time . " Just to clarify on that, I Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Never Mind getting asked about Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>One Direction , " he says. " I loved my Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Time In that band. "

He says he only bites back, " when people are divisive and I feel they're trying to get a headline out of me".

He's keen to talk about his tour - which seems to have been a vindication of sorts.

Although he was Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Most active songwriter in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>One Direction , with credits on hits like Story Of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>My Life and Drag Me Down, Tomlinson's solo career hasn't quite gone Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Way he planned.

On Spotify, he has five million monthly listeners - a figure most artists would kill for, but one that's dwarfed by his former bandmates (Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Harry Styles , Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Most successful of Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Quintet , is on 70 million).

In 2019, after Tomlinson's third solo single, Miss You, entered Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Charts at a lowly number 39, he and rethink " what success means to me".

" I won't say it was a daily struggle, but maybe a weekly struggle, " he says of that period.

" Obviously my experience in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>One Direction is Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Pinnacle . We got played on radio all Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Time but my last album didn't. Not really.

" To be fair, There wasn't really a song that would fit that well on radio. But what I find interesting is that I'm lucky enough to have Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Ability to tour globally, but I might not get the support I need on radio. That feels like a slight contradiction to me. "

Tomlinson was hoping his second album would change that. His comeback single Bigger Than Me mixes Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Old School guitar-pop with an anthemic chorus that breaks like a wave.

" I wanted my first single to feel ambitious and to have a certain scale, hence the big chorus, " he smiles.

Although it briefly made it into America's airplay chart at number 48, it has faltered in the UK, missing Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Charts in his Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Home Country .

Lyrically, it's about Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Letting Go of self-doubt and shutting out negative voices. It's a topic that Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Star , who turned 30 Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Last Year , kept revisiting in the studio.

" For a while, even the idea of getting older was really scary to me, because I spent my youth in Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Band and I still felt very youthful, " he says.

Even becoming a father to his Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>First Son , Freddie, in 2014 didn't force him into adulthood. " There was always an element of, when I was with Freddie, I'd put my adult dad hat on. Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>And Then , when I was doing my work or when I was with my mates, I'd be in a kind of limbo, really.

" I suppose lockdown was the Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>First Time when I just embraced everything and [stopped] resisting those changes. "

Coming of age is a theme that surfaces throughout his new album, Faith In Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Future .

On Face Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Music , he philosophises that " ".

Common People (not a cover of the Pulp classic) is about reconnecting with his roots in Doncaster. ", " he sings.

" That song's just trying to capture how amazing Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The People are There . If you're one of us, we'll Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Hold Out our arms and we'll embrace you. "

Faith In Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Future is dedicated to his avid fanbase. The propulsive opening track, Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Greatest , is a celebration of their relationship.

He acknowledges that he may have tested their loyalty on his first album, Walls. Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The First few singles were chart-chasing dance-pop crossovers with Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Steve Aoki and Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Bebe Rexha that represented " what I thought I should be doing, as opposed to what I really wanted".

The rest of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Album was overshadowed - understandably - by the death of Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>His Mother from cancer, followed in quick succession by his younger sister, Felicite, from an accidental overdose.

" There 's a weight to that record emotionally, and I needed to go through that process, " he says. " But it's not really how I carry myself as a person.

" In terms of the my Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Professional life, outside of Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Band , There 's been an element of me constantly picking myself up and going, 'No, let's go again, you can do this'.

" I've had to Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Have Faith in Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Future , be it personal or Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Professional - and, actually, There 's something really beautiful Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>About That idea. "

Tomlinson's new album has more potential future singles. Written All Over Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Your Face has a slick, funky guitar groove, and two Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Songs - Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>Silver Tongues and She Is Beauty, Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>We Are World Class - See him dipping his toes back into Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Dance Music .

" On Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The First record, I didn't want any electronic sounds. No trap drums that were really popular at Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Time , or any stuff like that, " he says.

He relaxed that policy after falling in love with Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The Glow , an album of hyper-charged indie-disco by Aussie band DMA's.

" It gave me real food for thought, because they use those sounds, but not in a way where it feels contrived. "

Given that his early experiments in dance-pop remain Tomlinson's biggest-selling Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>Songs , could these two new tracks signpost Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>His Way back to the mainstream?

" Listen, I would love some commercial success on this record, don't get me wrong, " he says.

" Will it get played on radio? I have no idea. But if it doesn't it won't be Class ='person_find_kisi' data-tip='kisi' data-kimlik='3836364'>The End . .

" I love my tour bus, I love my fans, I love travelling Class ='person_find_diger' data-tip='diger' data-kimlik='3836364'>The World . "

Source of news: bbc.com