Niall Horan Gives Aspiring Musicians Some Sound Advice
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1/6The It Brit doles out some wisdom for One Direction admirers.
2/6What is your ideal date?
Something really chilled out. My ideal date is something like a theme park. If you go out for dinner, I'm sitting across the table from you and it's awkward. I don't like that awkwardness of dinner, where you just eat and the conversation's a bit awkward. If you go somewhere where you both are going to have fun, it's going to be more relad and you can have a bit more of a laugh.
3/6Who is your celebrity crush?
Demi Lovato — everyone knows that.
4/6What advice do you have for aspiring musicians?
Believe in yourself. If you don't take chances, then you'll never know what it's going to be like. The reason I did The X Factor is because people would always say I could sing, but I wanted someone in the industry's opinion. We just went for The X Factor, and if it was a "no" then I would have known that maybe I'm not cut out for the industry. The show's a perfect place for aspiring musicians.
5/6Who is your dream collaboration?
If a collaboration came around with Katy Perry, that'd be absolutely amazing. We're all massive fans of hers, and our music isn't a million miles away from each other. Or maybe Bruno Mars because he's pretty much an all-arounder — he looks good, he plays all the instruments, he performs.
6/6What would you be doing if you weren’t a musician?
I’d be at university doing sound engineering and music. I still would have been in some sort of music.
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