i don’t think the interviewers were out of bounds or disrespectful, but he has every right to be as sensitive about this as he is

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Am I understanding from the description that songs on his album are about grief? It seems odd then that he wouldn't be at least somewhat willing to talk about it, since it's part of the album he's promoting. But I appreciate that writing a song privately is a different experience than talking about something publicly on a tv show.

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I read that only 1 song on the album is about his family.

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Only one of them is about his mom, and it was recorded and released shortly before his sister passed away. His album is mostly about his girlfriend (which I love because it makes the Larries really mad).



And IA, that expressing grief through your art is different than talking about it during a morning TV fluff piece.

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lord, how are the larries still out there? lol

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is he still with eleanor?

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1 that has been a single for like a year

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He seemed fine in the interview until they mentioned Zayn. They didn't seem to press the grief question.



I wonder if he sat on it and later felt like he didn't like the interview



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the blonde made several valid points and as much as i understand louis about his grief and not wanting to talk about it, these celebs usually have a list of things they dont want to talk about and if he didn't present that before the interview, he's honestly being uh.. 'tender'

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He has a list and his sister is on it, quite a few (print) interviews have mentioned that.



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Not a 1D fan, to be honest I'm not even sure if I've ever even heard one of their songs, never mind their solo songs, but I have read that he did indeed have these topics "blacklisted" and they asked questions about them anyway.

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i actually felt the interviewers were really respectful (albeit yeah i bet the questions about zayn and a 1d reunion are so annoying since it's been 4/5 years now) but i don't blame him for not wanting to talk about his grief even if he obviously channeled it into his art. it just sucks bc he's obv going to be asked about it and i can't 100% blame interviewers for that either

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i don't think they pressed it, and it's natural for them to ask about the song he first released. but i can understand his difficult feelings about it.



he didn't seem annoyed until they asked about zayn tho so lol

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i cant be bothered to watch the video but funny that he'd get mad at the zayn questions when he's the one who can't stop talking abt him lol



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to be fair, they did ask him about zayn lol but liam and louis both seem to struggle keeping their mouth closed when it comes to talking about zayn. you'd think if they didn't want to talk about it, they'd screen the questions.

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I thought the most awkward was when the woman said “all the other 1D are on their second albums”

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I mean, Gee, Lady, do you think his pace might be somehow related to of all this grief you were just grilling him about?

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i know he's going through it but god he's so fucking unlikeable.

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I feel like the tone of this thread would be different if this wasn't about Louis.

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for definite, i say this as a person who used to not like him and have warmed up to indifference. never known louis to lie about things either so if he stated he was upset about the line of questioning that starts with the death of his mum and sister then i'm inclined to believe him. the bbc usually go soft, especially for their entertainment 8am slots so this is a little weird from them but a lot of things are going wrong there currently.

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Oh yea for sure

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Ia

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mte. his fucking mom and sister died, god forbid he doesn't want to entertain that on tv. taylor swift doesn't ever talk about soon you'll get better and it makes sense...these things are painful and you don't want to talk about them with total strangers. not to mention, in his past few shows, some of his fans idiotically printed out photos of his mom and sister to hold up during two of us. what kind of demented freak does that?

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JFC, I kind of scan shit on ONTD and nowhere else, and I barely pay attention to this guy, so I had no idea his sister died too. I had to look it up, and that is so so horrible and sad.

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Speaking of invasive, did anyone else see Calvin Harris’ big ass dick? 😳

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It didn’t seem like the questions were that far removed from what he’s been asked about recently but I kind of get the feeling it might have been a bad day and something triggered. He’s talked about his mom a bit and has said it’s tough to talk about but I think his sister may be a much tougher topic and more “off limits”. I cannot really judge someone for having a bad day when it comes to talking about the losses he’s faced.



I can say I wish he’d stop with the fans having his back stuff on Twitter when he’s airing grievances. He’s done it a few time now and it feels like it’s blatantly asking fans to go after the people he has an issue with. Totally understandable if he didn’t want to answer the questions, even if it was just one off day but I don’t like telling fans to essentially harass the people who are just doing their jobs.

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Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he's ever spoken directly about his sister or anyone's brought her up by name to him before in an interview. Talking about his mum seems more acceptable because it was on his terms that the topic first got brought up, but Two Of Us came out before Fizzy died so it's no excuse to bring her up when he's never done anything to warrant that being a public topic.

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I think you're correct and I agree. I mean, the only reason it's even public knowledge how she died is that people crashed her autopsy hearing, which is pretty fucked up by itself.

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I think she’s been mentioned by name in print interviews but you can’t really tell what they actually asked him in those. I don’t think he’s directly talked about her by name though.



It’s tough bc her death was very public just based on the nature of her passing so it’s hard to say it’s not public. If it’s on his list of no go topics though it should definitely not be a conversation, especially given how tough of a conversation that is to start with

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I've dragged him before for lashing out at interviewers, but this is different imo.



Quite a few articles have mentioned that he's blacklisted questions about his sister, to ignore that is pretty fucked up. It hasn't even been a years since she passed.

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How is asking about grief not also bringing up his mom and sister though? Those are pretty linked together, and if he asked them not to mention it then it's just outright rude.



I watched the recording of the interview someone put on youtube, and he definitely seemed uncomfortable and they cut from him answering about the fan reactions to answering something about his family, so I'm not sure what happened in between there. Found it:



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Honestly, I feel for him. I was a fucking wreck for YEARS after my brother died and would lash out irrationally if people said even the slightest thing wrong in regards to him.

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he really shouldn't be.

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louis does not want to talk z**n! stop mentioning the z-word around him! god!

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This is random af but I wonder what his relationship with Harry is nowadays, if there even is one.

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They texted each other one time when their albums dropped and that’s pretty much it, per Louis himself.



He also recently said he hasn’t talked to Niall in awhile, so it sounds like only he and Liam have any type of active connection.

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