Roger Daltry thinks One Direction don't provide enough for the world to be satisfied with its musical needs.
The Who singer has commented about the lack of bands who display "angst and purpose", singling out the X Factor-created boyband for criticism.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday newspaper's Event magazine, he said: "Here we are with the world in the state it is in, and we've got One Direction. Where are the artists writing with any real sense of angst and purpose?
"There are no movements at the moment: we had mod and then there was punk, but it's so hard to start a movement now. Unless it's ISIS."
Meanwhile Pete Townshend has laughed off complaints over One Direction's hit 'Best Song Ever' sounding like The Who classic 'Baba O'Riley', insisting he couldn't care if the two sounded similar because he has "ripped off" plenty of material "over the years".
"It wasn't important enough to get excited about. I could hear a bit of The Who in it, but so what?
"Considering the stuff we ripped off over the years, it doesn't really matter."
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