The Wanted: 'One Direction are more faces than music'
Published Mar 5 2012, 09:43 GMT | By Mayer Nissim
The Wanted have suggested that One Direction are better known for their looks than their music in the US.Singer Max George told Metro his group are "more of a music band" than 2010's X Factor finalists.
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"I'm not sure how well they're actually doing yet," George said of One Direction's Stateside success. "They're more faces, if you know what I mean.
"I don't think people really look at us over there as the same kind of band because I think people look at them more like a Jonas Brothers sort of band that are very TV and children's magazine-based."
He continued: "They make magazines instead of actually hearing them on the radio.
"I think our audience over there is sort of 18 to 25 or 30. We have a lot of radio play but I think we're more of a music band."
Of The Wanted's relationship with their boyband rivals, George added: "We don't talk. The X Factor family stick together.
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"They're very close, you know, all the X Factor contestants, and they kind of stay in that one circle normally."
Last summer, George said that he was glad his band were not formed on The X Factor, adding: "One Direction, where are they now?"
Asked about The Wanted's supposed rivalry with One Direction, Jay McGuiness recently told Digital Spy: "We're really, really happy for them. They're nothing like us so there is no rivalry!
"They own that whole Bieber-style mania, and they all look perfect - we could never do that. We both have our place, and you can't help but wish guys that you genuinely like all the best."
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Watch The Wanted talk about their single 'Glad You Came' below:
or even people need to stop twisting his words!!
March 6th 2012 at 6:52pm
The guys are nothing but sore losers who are just jealous that they haven't been as successful - they've come across as the bad guys whereas One Direction are coming across as the good guys which they are.
The Wanted are rude and obnoxious which I really hate!
March 5th 2012 at 10:43pm
sound like the wanted have sour grapes. They aren't saying that when they are being paid to appear on Xtra Factor. I have my BFF in USA. She isn't into either, but did tell me, she knew who One Direction was as every music channel is playing them all the time. But shes never heard o the wanted so......whatevs.
March 5th 2012 at 8:39pm
Max George needs to keep his gob shut on times.
March 5th 2012 at 7:03pm
I like them both. And the fact that the people from X-factor stick together just shows that they are not lying in the show when they tell that they are close together. I think it's great that if you become 3th in the show you still can be a great success.
March 5th 2012 at 11:19am