"Strong" is a song by English-Irish boy band One Direction, taken from their third studio album Midnight Memories (2013).
"Strong" was written by Louis Tomlinson,[2] John Ryan, Jamie Scott and Julian Bunetta.
In an interview with MTV News, Bunetta said, "We got into this discussion about how when you tell someone like 'I need you, I love you and I need you 'cause you make me strong,' essentially you can scare someone off.
It was just sort of a thing that I think all guys feel, having to uphold a man 'I'm strong' philosophy, and kind of throwing that idea out the window.
It's the sort of song plenty of boy bands and well-meaning soft rockers have pulled off before...."[5] The song reached number one on the Official New Zealand Music Chart, making it One Direction's third number one in New Zealand, after "Live While We're Young" (2012) and "Story of My Life".