8. Harry styles informal Q&A analysis
• One Direction Q&A: Harry Styles
• 12/14/2012 by Andrew Hampp
• One Direction Q&A: Harry Styles
• Harry Styles has the devil may care hair, a dimple that's melted a million hearts, and now that girlfriend, Taylor Swift. The 18-year-old Englishman is
also a member of One Direction, the saviors of boy band virtue and Billboard's Top New Artist of 2012. We caught up with Styles, briefly, on the
phone recently.
• Congrats on being named Billboard's Top New Artist of 2012. How does it feel?
• It's been an amazing year for us. We've been having such a great time since when we first came to the U.S. It's been absolutely crazy and amazing.
• At this time last year, what was your outlook on 2012 and possibly cracking America?
• We looked at this album as a very big deal. It's a good feeling obviously to work with everyone and put everything out with the team that's worked
so hard to get us this far. It's been absolutely incredible.
• I'm told you're the music guy in the groups who's always turning others on to new bands. What's your personal taste like?
• I actually get a lot of music from my sister, who's into all these bands. She's been listening to and downloading stuff that I get from her. A lot of times
suggested stuff comes on iTunes I'll have a look at it, or the fans will send me things . But I've been listening to The Lumineers. I love their album and
also Elvis Perkins, he's great.
• You guys accomplished a lot in 2012, but what's your personal highlight?
• For me the Olympics literally can't be topped. Just the feeling of being in that room, all our families were there. The whole feeling was just
unbelievable.
• What about performing at the VMAs, where you also won three awards?
• There was something about being in the room and the whole kind of atmosphere that really surprised me. To be on that stage and perform was
unbelievable. I think it kind of felt like people learned a bit more about the One Direction thing. It felt like we were making music where people of all
kinds could appreciate.
• You've got a concert film up next. What can we expect?
• We're excited. I think we've had cameras on us for a long time, we've just been filming a lot of stuff. It's just gonna be exciting to watch it back. Just
to have the ability to be able to kind of look back at that while we're older and to have your children see it will be amazing.
• Stuff- music
• Things- music suggestions
• The one direction thing- what one direction is like
• I think we’ve had- we have had
• We’ve just been filming a lot of stuff- We have been filming for a lot of footage
• To be able to kind of- to be able to
• Its just gonna be- its going to be
• Literally cannot be topped- was a once in a life time experience
9. • I think the informal language is effective because it
makes the interview more chatty and personal. What
Harry Styles is saying isn’t corrected or filtered and
therefore makes it more realistic and natural. The Q&A
feels more like a chat with Harry Styles rather than a
structured, planned out article which makes the
interview easy to read with small information. The
Q&A has a fun approach to an interview because the
specific questions asked are all very different and
therefore provides a range of answers.
My thoughts on a Q&A informal article
10. Free flowing or Q&A
• I prefer a free flowing article because it gives a lot of information about
the artist/band to the reader. With a Q&A, the questions and answers are
quite straight forward and to the point, whereas a free flowing article
allows the interviewer to give opinions and therefore the reader can have
more of an insight of what impression the artist/band makes. The
interviewer can also talk about the interviewees actions and what they are
wearing which is interesting to read about and gives more information for
the readers about the person. I feel like although a simple Q&A is
important and gets straight to the point, little facts about what they are
doing and how they act in a free flowing article is important because it
gives a more thorough interview and exclusive information you normally
wouldn’t know.
