--- title: One Direction's Liam Payne Is Revealing His Dance Moves description: The former boy band superstar has a new single "Strip That Down," and showed off his dancing skill during a performance for Jimmy Fallon. canonical: https://time.com/4828550/liam-payne-jimmy-fallon/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-22T17:52:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:46.537Z og:title: One Direction's Liam Payne Revealed Some Cool Dance Moves og:description: Payne performed "Strip That Down" on Jimmy Fallon's show og:url: https://time.com/4828550/liam-payne-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: One Direction's Liam Payne Revealed Some Cool Dance Moves twitter:description: Payne performed "Strip That Down" on Jimmy Fallon's show twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # One of the One Direction Guys Finally Showed Off His Dance Moves on Jimmy Fallon  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 22, 2017 5:52 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 22, 2017 5:52 PM UTC On Wednesday evening’s _Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_, former One Direction heartthrob [Liam Payne](http://time.com/4786705/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-13/item/strip-that-down-liam-payne/) made his prime time television debut as a solo artist with a performance of his new single, [“Strip That Down.”](http://time.com/4786705/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-13/item/strip-that-down-liam-payne/) The big news for Payne fans is that he chose to accompany his tune with some slick dance moves. Lots of slick dance moves. As part of the [famous fivesome](http://time.com/4794745/niall-horan-one-direction-billboard/), Payne and the boys were known for their tongue-in-cheek attitude towards dancing: mainly, they avoided it. (Or if they did engage in some light choreography, it was with a wink and a nod to the fact that they certainly weren’t dance impresarios like their boy band forebears the [Backstreet Boys](http://time.com/4803082/joey-fatone-nsync-backstreet-mclean/) or [\*NSYNC](http://time.com/4444722/nsync-reunion-photo/), groups of guys known for their sharply synchronized moves.) But Payne is bucking the anti-choreography trend and kicking off his independent career with a much more pro-dance attitude, to the [delight of fans](https://twitter.com/FallonTonight/status/877746445633306624). His performance of a minimalist version of hip hop bop “Strip That Down” lit up Twitter as long-time supporters finally saw what he’s working with, moves-wise. Joined by a few backup dancers silhouetted all in black, Payne shimmied, chasséd, and even threw in some fancy footwork while singing through the track. Looks like he’s feeling just fine onstage on his own. Payne’s approach as a solo artist is [markedly different](http://time.com/4513314/niall-horan-new-music/) to his former bandmates; you can bet that [Harry Styles’s sold-out tour](http://time.com/4769079/harry-styles-tour-sold-out/) is unlikely to involve this kind of dancing, at the very least. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4828550/liam-payne-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4828550/liam-payne-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"One of the One Direction Guys Finally Showed Off His Dance Moves on Jimmy Fallon","datePublished":"2017-06-22T17:52:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:46.537Z","description":"The former boy band superstar has a new single \"Strip That Down,\" and showed off his dancing skill during a performance for Jimmy Fallon.","url":"https://time.com/4828550/liam-payne-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","One Direction","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4828550/liam-payne-jimmy-fallon/","name":"One of the One Direction Guys Finally Showed Off His Dance Moves on Jimmy Fallon"}}]}] ```