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One Direction infection comes to Seattle

April 15, 2012 @ 5:51 pm (Updated: 9:49 am - 4/16/12 )

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For tween girls, "Bieber fever" is so yesterday. Now they're suffering from the "One Direction infection."

Tickets for the boy band's summer 2013 show at Key Arena went on sale over the weekend. That's not a typo. The concert is July 28, 2013.

OneDirection

Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles (he's the one pre-teen girls are sooooo crazy about) and Louis Tomlinson. The oldest will be 21 in December, the rest are 18 and 19 years old. Photo courtesy OneDirectionMusic.com

The fab five are British. They were solo contestants on the X Factor, the British version of American Idol. Then they were put into a band by the show’s creator, Simon Cowell.

One Direction has been on The Today Show, Saturday Night Live, and their debut album "Up All Night" is number one on the 200 Billboard Chart, selling 176,000 copies in the first week.

The music is reminiscent of NSync, and the mania is too. A piece of toast, half eaten by One Direction's Niall Horan, sold online for for almost $100,000.

As a mom who took her daughter to two Jonas Brothers concerts in 2007, I know the hype with this latest group will only last for a few years. But for those girls who get caught up in it, they'll always remember the boys in the band. I'm still an Osmond fan.

Ladies, you know what I'm talking about. Who was your first crush?

By LINDA THOMAS

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  • dcnilsen wrote...
    Just out of curiosity...
    April 15, 2012 9:35 pm
    Are they like...12?
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  • TheNewsChick wrote...
    Their ages
    April 16, 2012 1:31 am
    The oldest will be 21 this year, the rest are 18 and 19 years old.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    late teens and they still don't know their seam size
    April 16, 2012 5:29 am
    These Boys need a tailor and perhaps take that $100K (yeah right) they got from selling toast and hir a proper tailor.These 5 look like they just left a cheap suit shop in Bangkok
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  • dcnilsen wrote...
    Wow...
    April 16, 2012 5:54 am
    then i must be getting old...they look like children
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