About this Event
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🧠 Lecture: "The 'X' Factor: How One Direction Broke Through Globally"
🎤 Speaker: Jason Lipshutz
Join us for a captivating evening as Jason Lipshutz unpacks how five teenagers, thrown together on the UK version of The X Factor, became one of the defining pop groups of their generation. Drawing from his book, A Whole Lotta History: One Direction and the Sound That Shaped a Generation, Lipshutz will explore how One Direction learned to be a band in real time, harnessed YouTube and social media, and built a fiercely devoted global fanbase that transcended borders, language, and traditional music industry playbooks.
Jason Lipshutz is the co–chief content officer at Billboard, where he has covered music for over a decade and written cover stories on Taylor Swift, U2, Olivia Rodrigo, Blink-182, Lorde, Bon Iver, and Louis Tomlinson, among others. He is also the author of A Whole Lotta History and It Starts with One: The Legend and Legacy of Linkin Park, and has appeared on Access Hollywood, Good Morning America, and Entertainment Tonight.
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Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event venue & nearby stays
Carroll Gardens, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, United States
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