Audio Autopsy, 2013: One Direction No One Expected: The Blondie & Undertones Medley For Charity

To the hipper-than-thou, kindly adjust your "cool quotient" to allow for the following several moments where a billion-selling teen-pop group is acknowledged for having once existed. To fans, welcome!

Formed via the plastic, commercial convention of the TV talent show? Check. Propelled and promoted by the cynical Dick-Clark-of-the-New-Millennium, Simon Cowell? Check. More popular than we’ve ever been with the ladies? Check. So squeaky clean you could eat off ‘em? Check. Did they make more than their share of catchy, ear-candy taffy? Yep. Don’t panic:…