On this very day five years ago, One Direction released the music video for "What Makes You Beautiful."
The sight of five boyishly handsome British boys bopping around the beach to an upbeat, catchy pop tune was a welcome reprieve for the weary music world, and it wasn't long before Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik were household names.
For a boy band, five years is an eternity, but we've kept up pretty closely with the fellas' lives. Zayn was the first to go solo, but Harry and Liam now have individual record deals as well. Since then relationships have come and gone, #Larry still isn't real, and heck, Louis is the father to a six-month-old son named Freddie.
