Nothing can drag One Direction down, not even gravity. The British boy band released the music video for ‘Drag Me Down’ on Thursday, Aug. 20. Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson swapped in their stylish civilian clothes for astronaut gear in the new video.
One Direction prepared to soar to new heights in ‘Drag Me Down.’ The members sang “nobody can drag me down” as they danced, hung out with robots, and trained hard for their venture into space. Styles, Payne, Horan, and Tomlinson broke a sweat to prepare and eventually floated in zero gravity.
“If I didn't have you there would be nothing left. The shell of a man who could never be his best. If I didn't have you, I'd never see the sun. You taught me how to be someone, yeah,” sings Tomlinson.
Louis Tomlinson performing at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, Scotland on February 2013.
The members wore orange NASA space suits as they entered a blue shuttle, which launched them beyond the earth’s atmosphere. NASA’s staff cheered on One Direction as they successfully made it into space. The video was filmed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
“It was so cool to shoot at @NASA_Johnson , so glad we did coz it turned out sick,” tweeted Horan.
‘Drag Me Down’ was directed by Ben and Gabe Turner and produced by Fulwell 73. The video received 3,691,205 views on YouTube as of Friday, Aug. 21. It received 774K likes and 6K dislikes.
It is the first time that Styles, Payne, Horan, and Tomlinson recorded and released a single without former member Zayn Malik, who left One Direction in March 2015.
