: Louis Tomlinson on finding his artistic identity: “It’ll be an ever-evolving process” In a recent Billboard cover story, Tomlinson said that despite not paying “loads of attention to” the success of other boy bands post-1D, the meteoric rise of the K-pop group was impossible to ignore. Advertisement “There was a time when BTS was on the way up, and I felt like, every time I logged into Twitter, they’d just taken one of our records for something – some fastest-selling thing, and they’d take it away!” he joked. “It was just a bit of a shame!” he continued. “But I don’t begrudge them that – that’s the nature of the music industry, it keeps moving,” While looking back to the rise of his former band, he said there hasn’t been anything similar, really,” to the pop culture phenomenon One Direction became in their 2010’s peak. “I’m sure people are trying,” he reasoned, “but I think what was really interesting about One Direction [was] pretty much every boy band that had come before us would fit into a quite specific mould. “There was a way of doing boy bands back in the day, dressing in the same outfits, dancing. We broke free from that.” Louis Tomlinson. CREDIT: Press