Peak
46
Weeks
16
Score
965
Chart Year
2013
The accompanying music video, directed by Vaughan Arnell, who had previously directed One Direction's music videos for "Live While We're Young" and "Little Things", was designed to showcase the group's comedic timing.[4][43] Inspired by the Beach Boys, cult surfing films, old Hollywood, and British cinema, the music video incorporates "a technicolor vibe and a British kind of romp", as noted by Arnell in a MTV News interview.[43] Shot by November 2012, the music video was characterised, in several MTV News interviews, as "bigger than anything we've done before" by Zayn Malik, as "a lot of hard work" by Payne, as "pure stupidity" by Louis Tomlinson, and as "I wouldn't say [it's] comedy, it's all tongue-in-cheek" by Arnell.[4][43][44] Premiering worldwide on Vevo on 7 January 2013, the music video depicts the band shooting different scenes via a green screen, dressed as sailors, surfers, skiers and jailers.[45] The video features scenes reminiscent of the films South Pacific, To Catch a Thief, Jailhouse Rock and Beach Blanket Bingo, as well as the iconic music videos of songs such as The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl", Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" and Rammstein's "Mein Land", among others.[43][45][46][47] The music video garnered 10.4 million views in a 24-hour period, failing to attain the Vevo record held by Justin Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat" music video (10.6 million).[5] Despite a 34 per cent gain in weekly activity to their Vevo channel, with the clip's success and preceding teaser videos earning 38 million views during the week, One Direction held at number two on the Billboard's Social 50 chart [5] A 15 per cent rise in Facebook reaction gave way to a 154,000 increase in Facebook likes during the week. 191,000 Twitter followers added contributed to their overall fan base increase as well.[5] Melinda Newman, a contributor for HitFix, favoured the clip as having "everything a video by a boy band should be" and found group's careless tone delightful.[47] Rebecca Macatee of E! Online praised its "intentionally cheesy and utterly adorable" sequences,[48] and MTV News's Jocelyn Vena described the clip as "conquering old Hollywood".[43] Molly Chance, writing for Zap2it, was convinced that upon watching the "adorable" music video, the viewer should have a hard time disliking the group.[49] Mikael Wood, the critic for Los Angeles Times, commended the group for "having a genuinely great time", rather than going through the motions.[
This song was crafted by Savan Kotecha, Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub, the three-man songwriting team who penned One Direction's US top ten hits "What Makes You Beautiful" and "Live While We're Young." The song has a live band feel. One Direction's Harry Styles told Dose.ca before they started work on Take Me Home: "We want to have a little bit heavier guitars, bigger drums, more of a live feel, because that's what we like doing." The album title is taken from the laid-back chant on this tune that goes: "If you don't want to take it slow and you just want to take me home. Baby, say ye-ee-ay-uh!" One Direction's Niall Horan told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM show that the quintet came up with the album's title themselves: "We thought about it for a while," he said. "Because we all would do a lot of traveling around the world and we get to see a lot of cool places, but the main thing is There's no place like home. It's always kind of nice to go home." The song was released as One Direction's official second single from Take Me Home in the US. Liam Payne explained the choice to MTV News. "With the album, that's the first one that we listened to and we were like, 'Yeah, we love this song,'" he said. "It holds a special place in our heart, I think for this album, and it kind of sets the tone I think for the album." Take Me Home entered at #1 in over 32 countries including the United States. In landing at the summit on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, One Direction became the first British band to have their first and second albums both debut at the summit in the US. Both Up All Night and Take Me Home sold over a million copies in the US in 2012. In doing so, One Direction became the first act since 2005 to have two newly-released albums sell more than a million in a calendar year. The last artist to achieve that feat was Kenny Chesney in 2005. Both Be As You Are: Songs From an Old Blue Chair and The Road and the Radio clocked over a million sales during that year. One Direction reunited with their "Little Things" and "Live While We're Young" video director, Vaughan Arnell, for this song's colourful video. It was shot on the George Lucas stage at Elstree Studios in North London, where Star Wars was filmed. Arnell told MTV News his aim for the clip was to show off the group's comedic timing. "It's giving them a playground to play in," he said. "We took it to the next level [from the 'Live While We're Young' clip]. The boys have always been themselves and for this one they're playing characters. The idea was it gave them a bit more of an extension to perform in the video. Basically, you kind of write little ideas and then you give them a few pointers but then they sort of take over. And they just make it their own, which I really like. They're very entertaining." He added that the quintet all displaying their own senses of humor throughout the video without too much direction. "They've all got their own kind of [thing]," he said. "Harry might do sort of different poses and Louis will throw in this mad dance now and again, Niall just pulls these brilliant faces, Zayn just sort of throws a curveball at you when you're not expecting it and Liam just does this kind of straight thing, has a really funny straight man in the whole thing," he explained of the fivesome. "There wasn't one of them that didn't stand up to the bar." The song's beachy, vintage vibe inspired Arnell to pay homage on the video to heartthrobs from another era. "It felt really kind of Beach Boys, almost like a 50's B-movie," he explained to MTV News, "like a 50's surfer B-movie and then I think 'How can we do that?' And then I was thinking like the cult surfing films and how we can take almost all that kind of almost like a Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii and the Jailhouse Rock, mixing up all that ... it was kind of taking all that fun and all that tongue-in-cheekiness and mixing it up with a bit of Hollywood meets British cinema." One Direction encouraged their fans to watch the music video on January 8, 2013 in the hopes of breaking the one-day view count record. According to VEVO it clocked up 10.4 million views but just missed breaking the record held by Justin Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat" (10.6 million views on October 13, 2012).
Oh, I just wanna take you anywhere that you would like We could go out any day, any night Baby, I'll take you there, take you there Baby, I'll take you there, yeah Oh, tell me, tell me, tell me how to turn your love on You can get, get anything that you want Baby, just shout it out, shout it out Baby, just shout it out, yeah And if you You want me to Let's make a move, yeah So tell me, girl, if every time we touch You get this kind of rush Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah If you don't wanna take it slow And you just wanna take me home Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah And let me kiss you Oh, baby, baby, don't you know you got what I need Lookin' so good from your head to your feet Come on, come over here, over here Come on, come over here, yeah Oh, I just wanna show you off to all of my friends Making them drool down their chinny-chin-chins Baby, be mine tonight, mine tonight Baby, be mine tonight, yeah And if you You want me to Let's make a move, yeah So tell me, girl, if every time we touch You get this kind of rush Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah If you don't wanna take it slow (come on) And you just wanna take me home Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah And let me kiss you (Let me kiss you) (Let me kiss you) (Let me kiss you) (Let me kiss you) Come on, na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na, yeah So tell me, girl, if every time we touch You get this kind of rush Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah If you don't wanna take it slow And you just wanna take me home Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Every time we touch You get this kind of rush Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah If you don't wanna take it slow And you just wanna take me home Baby, say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah And let me kiss you
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dec 1, 2012 | 95 | 31 |
| 7 | Jan 12, 2013 | 83 | 43 |
| 9 | Jan 26, 2013 | 65 | 61 |
| 10 | Feb 2, 2013 | 79 | 47 |
| 11 | Feb 9, 2013 | 80 | 46 |
| 12 | Feb 16, 2013 | 80 | 46 |
| 13 | Feb 23, 2013 | 72 | 54 |
| 14 | Mar 2, 2013 | 51 | 75 |
| 15 | Mar 9, 2013 | 46 | 80 |
| 16 | Mar 16, 2013 | 49 | 77 |
| 17 | Mar 23, 2013 | 51 | 75 |
| 18 | Mar 30, 2013 | 55 | 71 |
| 19 | Apr 6, 2013 | 62 | 64 |
| 20 | Apr 13, 2013 | 62 | 64 |
| 21 | Apr 20, 2013 | 78 | 48 |
| 22 | Apr 27, 2013 | 98 | 28 |