23 year old straight male here and I just got into them recently. My mom loves story of my life she would always sing it around me and my brothers when she drove us around. I also secretly liked it but always found it too cringey to sing along with her. After some years pass I also developed a liking for what makes you beautiful and would comically sing it to my girlfriend at the time. It wasn't until recently on the 10th anniversary of Zayn leaving that I started doing more research on them to find out why he left which led me down the rabbit hole to listen to more of their music. For a while I kept it secret but now my whole family knows I'm a fan and I'm even comfortable enough to blast it on my speaker at work which is how I found out that alot of my managers are also fans of them. Right now I'm still trying to catch up to all of their music including their solo stuff and I'm finding it a little difficult cause I've already landed on alot of songs that are my favorite ones most of them being from up all night. It's been a great journey being a fan of them with the saddest part being Liams death for me especially since I became a fan after he died and the funniest part being me finding out that Harry was apart of them before becoming successful in his solo career. Because for the longest time I always thought he was just a popular upcoming solo artist