From One Direction to four paths of their own: The Brit boy band's ex-members have been charting distinctive musical courses
by By Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Sep 12, 2017
4 minutes
Niall Horan recognized the lyric was something of a risk.
A key part of "Slow Hands" - the top-20 solo hit by this member of the British boy band One Direction - the iffy line likens his lover's touch not to a summer breeze or a kiss from a rose but to "sweat dripping down our dirty laundry."
On the page it's vaguely nauseating. Yet as Horan delivers the words in his breathy croon, backed by a creeping funk groove, the image conjures a sensuality you can almost feel.
How'd he know it would fly?
"I was with some friends of mine and we were just kind
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