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Louis Tomlinson is admitting that he didn't particularly enjoy performing one of One Direction's biggest hits.
In a recent radio interview, the "Lemonade" singer, 34, explained that the beloved boy band's 2011 mega-hit debut single "What Makes You Beautiful" was "always, always, always" his least favorite song to perform, per People.
"Two reasons on that, it's definitely our most pop and most bubble gum pop moment," he said, adding that he wasn't "undermining the journey, 'cause obviously it worked out great."
Another reason he wasn't over the moon about the track is that he felt the lyrics were a bit too "corny."
"At the time I was 18, and it wasn't the coolest thing to be in a boy band, and then we got really big, so it was cool... But for the first couple of years it wasn't really like that," he said. "So, you know, singing, 'Baby, you light up my world like nobody else,' honestly, it wouldn't be out of place in a Disney film, so it did just feel a little corny."
However, he hedged, "But it was a great song and I probably have my whole career to thank for it."
As for the 1D song he loved the most, that honor belongs to "Story of My Life," the popular track from the group's 2013 album Midnight Memories.
"That's not the kind of record you expect from a band like One Direction, and I think that was kind of a turning point for us," he said. "So I remember feeling really proud that that wasn't the kind of song that you could ever dance to. There was definitely a kind of mold of boy bands before then, and I think that was a song that really helped us kind of break out of that."
In January, Tomlinson opened up about why One Direction's 2016 split was "really f---ing scary," explaining that bands who went their separate ways in the past typically only had a few members who would succeed as solo artists.
"There might be one or two people from a band that prosper, but history says there's not normally more than two," he said, adding, "I was never thinking, 'I'll be in that group that succeeds."