Media Diary Week 6

One Direction - Night Changes

 

One Direction's 'Night Changes' is a song off their album 'Four' and is targeted at the mainstream audience category. More specifically, teenage girls are the target audience for this well known and beloved boy band who have well and truly taken over the world since their rise to fame a few years ago on the television show The X Factor.
I do not watch The X Factor, and I do not usually listen to anybody who was on the show when it finishes and the runner ups typically burst onto the music and media scene as it generally is not the type of music that interests me. I classify my music taste into the explorer audience category because I do not tend to follow the music trends on the charts. Currently, I am a fan of bands such as Catfish and the Bottlemen and Nothing but Thieves, so therefore this addition of the gentle, easy listening 'Night Changes' to my music library can be seen as a strange one indeed.
I take the preferred reading of the text as I enjoy just simply listening to the music and the harmonic lyrics to put together an all round pleasant song. As well as this, it reminds me of the song 'Changes' by David Bowie, which is another song I really enjoy and so the One Direction hit automatically has positive connotations in my mind. Another song it sounds like is 'Only You' by yazoo, the fact that the song is reminiscent of other works by other artists helps to make the song more accessible to a wider audience as it is not copying but in fact taking inspiration and therefore pays homage to other songs that people like who may not have otherwise liked or proactively listened to the One Direction song.