{"id":2062762,"date":"2025-10-01T19:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2062762"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:20:29","slug":"it-feels-like-a-reflection-of-how-confident-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/it-feels-like-a-reflection-of-how-confident-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It feels like a reflection of how confident I am&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rollingstone.co.uk\/tag\/louis-tomlinson\">Louis Tomlinson <\/a>graces the cover of Rolling Stone UK for the first time, the former\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rollingstone.co.uk\/tag\/one-direction\">One Direction<\/a>\u00a0star\u00a0has told us about the lighter direction of his new album <em>How Did I Get Here?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The singer\u2019s third album lands on January 23 next year and the lead single \u2018Lemonade\u2019 sees Tomlinson head in an impressive psych-pop direction, with the song anchored by one of his catchiest choruses to date.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"rs-related-articles\">\n<h4 class=\"rs-related-articles__title\">Read next<\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Now, he joins his former bandmates<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.co.uk\/music\/harry-styles-the-worlds-most-wanted-man-rolling-stone-interview-21656\">\u00a0Harry Styles<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.co.uk\/music\/features\/niall-horan-the-show-one-direction-29753\/\">Niall Horan\u00a0<\/a>in covering Rolling Stone UK, and you can\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selectmagazines.co.uk\/product\/preorder24\/\">pre-order the magazine here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson wants the album to \u201cfeel like a journey from the mildly dark sonic place\u201d of his last album, 2022\u2019s <em>Faith in the Future<\/em>, to a much sunnier destination. \u201cI hope it feels like a reflection of how confident I am, but breezy is a real nice way of putting it,\u201d he says in the cover story for our latest issue. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since, professionally and personally, I\u2019ve been able to have a little spring in my step. So, hopefully that comes across in the record.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" data-image-nozoom=\"true\"><\/figure>\n<p>RS UK was also lucky enough to hear a number of other tracks on the record.  \u2018Imposter\u2019 is a slinky indie sleaze jam, while the anthemic \u2018Palaces\u2019 has shades of The Cure.  <\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson recorded some of the album in Los Angeles and portions in the English countryside, but says the album really took shape during a relaxed songwriting camp in Santa Teresa, a surfing village on Costa Rica\u2019s Nicoya Peninsula. <\/p>\n<p>That camp saw him joined by collaborators including Nico Rebscher, David Sneddon and Theo Hutchcraft from Hurts for three weeks of \u201cgood food and living the project at a slow pace\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Describing the relaxed approach to recording, Tomlinson explained: \u201cWhat it does for me is build up a lot of trust and confidence in the people that I\u2019m working with. What it isn\u2019t about \u2013 and I did many of these sessions [in the past] \u2013 is being in a room where people are hoping that we write the single. I get that everyone\u2019s got a livelihood, but sometimes in that situation, you can feel more like a means to an end than [like you\u2019re working with] someone who really wants the best for the record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on: \u201cEver since being in One Direction, I\u2019ve been searching for this kind of team mentality,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve done it the same with my live band on tour \u2013 we very much move as a unit, and that\u2019s really important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Explaining how Costa Rica shaped the record, he added: \u201cAs I\u2019ve got a bit older, I\u2019m really buying into more hippie-ish ideas. I realised I liked the idea of just bathing in that atmosphere and seeing what happened to the music there. I don\u2019t think songs like \u2018Lemonade\u2019, \u2018Sunflowers\u2019 and \u2018Lazy\u2019 would have happened without Costa Rica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Issue 24 of Rolling Stone UK with Louis Tomlinson will drop on October 9. The full story will arrive online in the week after.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Louis Tomlinson graces the cover of Rolling Stone UK for the first time, the former\u00a0One Direction\u00a0star\u00a0has told us about the lighter direction of his new album How Did I Get Here? The singer\u2019s third album lands on January 23 next year and the lead single \u2018Lemonade\u2019 sees Tomlinson head in an impressive psych-pop direction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[384082,357373],"class_list":["post-2062762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-louis-tomlinson","tag-one-direction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/It-feels-like-a-reflection-of-how-confident-I-am.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062764,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062762\/revisions\/2062764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}