As a follow-up to One Direction's internationally successful debut album Up All NightTake Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Largely recorded and composed in Sweden duringSavan KotechaRami Yacoub one direction take me home låtar Carl Falkwho composed One Direction's hits, " What Makes You Beautiful " and " One Thing ", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around the members' tones.
The album's songs are characterised by metronomic popvocal harmonies, hand claps, prominent electric guitar riffs, bright synthesizers, a homogeneous sound and message, and rotations of lead vocals. The members' voices are presented individually on the record, and its lyricism speaks of falling in love, unrequited lovecommitment, jealousy and self-empowerment.
Take Me Home garnered mostly positive reviews from music critics. There was praise for its quality of production, while criticism hinged on its generic, rushed nature. Globally, the album topped the charts in more than 35 countries.
One Direction also became the second act in to achieve two number-one albums within a month period, and the first boy band in US chart history to land two number-one albums in a calendar year. Their debut album and Take Me Home were the third and fifth-best-selling albums of in the United States, respectively, making the band the first act to place two albums in the year-end top five in the Nielsen SoundScan era.
The album's lead single, " Live While We're Young ", released on 28 Septemberpeaked inside the top ten in almost every country it charted in and recorded the highest one-week opening sales figure for a song by a non-U. To promote the album, One Direction performed the album's songs on several televised programmes and a headlining sold-out concert at the Madison Square Garden.
InOne Direction revealed that a follow-up release to their debut album, Up All Nightwas in development. We want to bring out a record nearly every year, every year and a half," Niall Horan said, revealing they were arranging "meetings and stuff with different writers and producers.
I won't feature on the tracks though". In AprilThe Independent reported that Simon Cowellthe group's manager, had challenged prominent songwriters to compete for space on One Direction's second album. LukeCirkutand Shellback.
Take Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Savan KotechaYacoub, and Falk, who composed One Direction's hits, " What Makes You Beautiful " and " One Thing ", spent six months in StockholmSwedendeveloping songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around their tones.
Kotecha reflected: "We'll spend days, sometimes weeks, challenging the melody. The goal is to make it sound like anyone can do this, but it's actually very difficult". After extensive promotional appearances in support of their debut album, One Direction began recording the album in Mayin Stockholm, Sweden, at Kinglet Studios.
The album cover artwork, revealed on 30 Augustfeatures the group surrounding a traditional British K6 red telephone boxa familiar sight on the streets of the UK. The album's songs are characterised by metronomic rock -inherited popvocal harmonies, hand claps, prominent electric guitar riffs, bright synthesisers, double entendres for sexual intercoursea homogeneous sound and message, the pitch-correcting software Auto-Tuneand rotations of lead vocals.
One note in the chord is changed, which Petridis surmised was probably to avoid paying any royalty to the Clash. The group's voices are presented individually on the record.