{"id":3242,"date":"2026-05-23T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/niall-horan-releases-emotional-song-about-late-one-direction-bandmate-liam-payne\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:03:10","slug":"niall-horan-releases-emotional-song-about-late-one-direction-bandmate-liam-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/niall-horan-releases-emotional-song-about-late-one-direction-bandmate-liam-payne\/","title":{"rendered":"Niall Horan releases emotional song about late One Direction bandmate Liam Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128529699.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Niall Horan is reflecting on <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/10\/16\/celebrity-news\/former-one-direction-member-liam-payne-dead-at-31\/\">the loss of his late One Direction bandmate<\/a>, Liam Payne, in his new song, \u201cEnd of an Era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had it, pure magic \/ Remember what it was like \/ Time passes so fast that \/ I couldn\u2019t tell you goodbye,\u201d sings Horan, 32, in the first verse of the song, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUNNmAAe5gQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released Friday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He moves on to wistfully look back on their younger years as he sings about how  \u201cthings change overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Niall Horan, pictured above holding a guitar on stage, released an emotional song about the death of his friend, Liam Payne, titled \u201cEnd of an Era.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for iHeartRadio<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWe had it, pure magic \/ Remember what it was like \/ Time passes so fast that \/ I couldn\u2019t tell you goodbye,\u201d Horan (seen above with Payne) sings on the song.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for iHeartMedia<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cCareless times, yeah, we sure had some \/ Na\u00efve eyes, yeah, we sure looked young \/ Tears fall down like the future comes \/ Slowly, then all at once,\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeels like letting go of \/ Things we\u2019re not supposed to \/ One breath and it\u2019s over \/ The end of an era,\u201d reads the lyrics of the chorus. <\/p>\n<p>Payne died in October 2024 at the age of 31 after he fell from his third floor hotel room balcony at CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>He remembers their younger days in the first verse where he sings: \u201cCareless times, yeah, we sure had some.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Payne (seen above smiling on stage with Horan) died in October 2024 at age 31 after he fell from his hotel room balcony. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time, Horan responded to the \u201cheartbreaking\u201d death of his friend, saying it \u201cjust doesn\u2019t feel real,\u201d in an Instagram statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam had an energy for life and a passion for work that was infectious. He was the brightest in every room and always made everyone feel happy and secure,\u201d Horan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the laughs we had over the years, sometimes about the simplest of things, keep coming to mind through the sadness. We got to live out our wildest dreams together and I will cherish every moment we had forever. The bond and friendship we had doesn\u2019t happen often in a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his March GQ interview, the \u201cSlow Hands\u201d hitmaker revealed that his new single was inspired by the grief he felt after Payne\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>At the time, Horan (seen here posing with Payne in 2014) wrote that Payne\u2019s passing \u201cjust doesn\u2019t feel real.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">David Becker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cLiam had an energy for life and a passion for work that was infectious,\u201d he said.  <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also reflected on his final memory with Payne, who visited the singer just days before he suffered his tragic fall. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great. [He] seemed in good form and we had a good laugh, good reminisce,\u201d Horan said, adding that he learned of Payne\u2019s death while watching TV in his bed at home. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just remember getting a message. And I was just like, \u2018What?\u2019\u2026 I just didn\u2019t think it was real,\u201d he said. \u201cSomeone so young, you\u2019re not expecting to hear that they\u2019ve passed, especially someone that you\u2019ve just seen. I just went back from shock to sadness to anger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/22\/entertainment\/niall-horan-releases-emotional-song-about-late-one-direction-bandmate-liam-payne\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niall Horan is reflecting on the loss of his late One Direction bandmate, Liam Payne,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128529699.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}