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One Direction sing a song for U on Sesame Street
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 20 November 2014
Sure, One Direction have achieved a lot of things in their short career, but everyone knows you’re still a nobody until you’ve been on ‘Sesame Street’. So well done 1D for finally ‘making it’.
The boyband recorded their appearance on the kids’ TV show almost a year ago, as part of the recently commenced 45th season of the show. Amongst their contributions was a reworked version of their song ‘What Makes You Beautiful’, retitled ‘What Makes U So Useful’. As you’ve probably guessed, the lyrics explain why U is such a great letter, because it makes words like ‘ukulele’ and ‘unicorn’ possible. Though I think there’s a good argument for banning the letter if it also got rid of ukuleles.
Is the new version of the song any good though? Well, no. It’s really not. They do their best with the clunky new lyrics, but the damage was already done before they started. And quite unfairly, this is only compounded by their video on YouTube going straight into a preview of Janelle Monáe being pretty stunning during her appearance on the show.
But anyway, we’ve talked about it long enough, here’s what happened when One Direction went on ‘Sesame Street’: