One Direction New Album 2013 [VIDEO]: Liam Payne & Louis Tomlinson Main Songwriters on Upcoming Third Record, Expect "Different" Sound

One Direction's first single off of their upcoming, unnamed new album, "Best Song Ever," has been tearing up the charts and breaking VEVO records. This of course just makes fans even more hopeful for the announcement of the new album release, but no news has come yet. What we do know, though, is that some of the members have been the main songwriters on the new record. Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne have apparently turned into a crack songwriting duo for the Take Me Home follow-up! How do Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Harry Styles feel about their mates writing One Direction songs?

Take Me Home featured some tunes written by the boys, but they admit that taking the songwriting into their own hands could be a "risk."

"We wrote three songs on the last album, bit this is different," Louis Tomlinson told The Sun. "Liam and I have been spending our days off writing, It will be interesting to hear what people make of it but you'll always get criticized."

Harry added, "Everyone is entitled to their opinion but it's easy to hate One Direction."

A few months back, a track "leaked" online, which appeared to be a Harry Styles solo song. It turned out to be a demo for a song that was not used on One Direction's last record. In a recent interview with Australian radio station 2DayFM, Liam Payne talked about this incident.

"There's a lot of songs out there with just mine and Louis vocals on them when we've been doing writing together, and it's not that we're just like abandoning the group or anything," Liam said. "[In Harry's case] it's just that writer decided to put that song out because I don't think it made the album, so I think he might've been a bit distraught by it, I dunno."

Are you excited to hear more songs written by the One Direction boys? It looks like the others don't care too much about Liam and Louis taking the songwriting reins, or do you think they're just keeping quiet for now?