Watch Emblem3's latest performance and vote: Is this the new One Direction? Simon Cowell's two baby boy bands are having a play date! One Direction will take The X Factor stage Nov. 8, where they'll come face to face with Emblem3, Simon's new pop outfit, for the first time. HollywoodLife.com caught up with the guys of Emblem3 — Drew Chadwick, and Wesley and Keaton Stromberg — after the Nov. 7 taping, and they told us they "can't wait" to meet 1D. "I heard they know how to party" Drew told reporters. "We've been cooped up in that mansion for weeks, so we need to let loose!" Wesley added, "They seem pretty cool, and I'll ask them how this whole process worked for them." Emblem3 and Simon drew criticism from Demi Lovato on the Nov. 7 episode of The X Factor for using the beat from 1D's "What Makes You Beautiful" under their...
- 11/8/2012
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
Simon draws new comparisons between the boy bands -- but will Emblem 3 sing a 1D song on 'The X Factor' this season? Read on for the scoop. You might not know this, but you have Simon Cowell to thank for the very existence of One Direction. He formed the British-Irish boy band on the The X Factor UK, and it sounds like he might have struck gold again — stateside, this time — with Emblem 3! Speaking to HollywoodLife.com and other reporters Nov. 1, Simon drew comparisons between the global phenomenon and the budding pop trio. "[The boys of Emblem 3] do remind me, in a lot of ways, of when I started working with One Direction," Simon said. "It was this self-confidence, having fun, wanting to win, but at the same time kind of difficult to manage. But I like that. I have fun working with them, I really do. And they are infectious." Despite their noted similarities,...
- 11/2/2012
- by Andy Swift
- HollywoodLife
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