One Direction's Louis 'annoyed' by bromance link to Harry Styles One Direction release their new album Midnight Memories this week, their third album in as many years. LARRY Stylinson is not amused. Or at least half of Larry Stylinson - the fictional bromantic pair created by wildly imaginative One Direction fans who concocted a relationship between band mates Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. There's erotic fan fiction online, plus doctored photos and video evidence used to suggest Harry and Louis' looking at each other or brushing each other's leg is some kind of hidden code. Backstage in Melbourne, Tomlinson and bandmate Zayn Malik are fresh from a quick holiday together to Hamilton Island to break up their lengthy Australian tour. It was just the two of them - a knife in the imaginary heart of Larry Stylinson. Or perhaps the start of Layn Malikson? They're discussing some of the wild theories created by their fans - one documentary saw fans suggesting when the band go overseas they have to do something to fill up their time. And bandwidth. "We've all dwelt on some conspiracy theory at some point," Malik, 20, muses. Thought something was real. "The psychology behind the theories are very interesting," Tomlinson, 21, notes. However mentioning the Larry Stylinson theories provokes that most rare of incidents - a boy band F Bomb. "That's a f----ing annoyance," Tomlinson says of the false rumours linking him to Styles. Can he not appreciate the impressive amount of work that's gone into it at least? "I wouldn't say it was impressive," Tomlinson fumes. I'd say it was f---ing annoying. RIP Larry Stylinson. Sadly for this interview Styles, 19, is under the weather, so his thoughts on the matter remain unclear, however sources suggest he finds it more amusing than his band mate clearly does. One Direction are a fascinating test case for the accessible new world of pop. Social media was responsible for their success stretching beyond just the UK, where they were assembled on the X Factor in 2010. However they're now breaking ground for how Twitter can be used as a stalking tool by obsessed fans. Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles of One Direction speak onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Source: AP Payne admits their Australian tour this year saw them regularly stuck inside their hotels, with trying to sight-see on days off becoming a security hazard. "I don't mean this in a disrespectful way," he says, "but being famous meant something different a few years back. With Twitter, if we go to the shops now, you have one picture and it gets Tweeted that's you done for the day and you're stuck with people following you around. We are normal lads, we do want our privacy sometimes, let off a bit of steam instead of being in the public eye constantly. Have the freedom to stand and pick your nose. Horan's arrival in Melbourne to have a holiday with his cousins was busted by airline connected 1D fans on Twitter, with the hashtag #niallinmelbourne trending before he'd even left the airport. "You just have to get out," Horan, 20, says. There's no point living as a prisoner in your hotel. Even if they are nice hotels. The band's work rate is impressive - in today's short-attention span pop culture striking while the iron is white hot is crucial. Watch the boys from One Direction in teaser footage for their first fragrance, Our Moment. They recorded third album (in as many years) Midnight Memories while touring previous album Take Me Home. "It gives us something else to be proud of," Payne says. What most bands take a year to do (record an album) we managed to get done in a few weeks and to a good standard. It's not like we rushed it, it just happened naturally. You work hard and you get the result. And we've got another tour next year, we didn't have a choice, we had to get the record done. We don't just want to go out and do the same tour again, we want some new tunes. To put on a stadium tour you need new songs to add to the songbook so this album had to get made. Horan agrees. The fans don't want to be listening to the same tunes, we wanted to give them something to look forward to every year. The third album is a crucial one for pop bands - it's usually the one where they try to have more creative control. Midnight Memories sees One Direction get more co-writing credits than ever before - Harry Styles co-wrote Something Great with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, while the rest of the band were teamed up separately or collectively with experienced hatmakers. They feel it's more "live" and "rocky" than their first two, but without alienating fans. "Midnight Memories, the song, is our statement piece, if you will," Payne says. The songs seemed to come out well. It didn't even feel like we were doing work. A lot of people say the third album is the most difficult to make. We have to make a statement here, we can't just rehash the same album, that's not what we're here for. We want to make some good music. We would like to gain some new fans this year maybe if they like our new tunes. One Direction have sold 20 million albums so far. The band's This Is Us documentary captures the punishing schedule - one scene shows Malik being woken up on a tour bus to record vocals for the single Best Song Ever. Opinion on this as a recording method is divided in 1D. Tomlinson enjoyed it. Recording on the road was a good way of doing it, after you come off stage you're buzzing, you're in a good vocal state. For Horan - not so much. "The vocals were taking a hit," He says. You'd do a show then go in the studio. Tomlinson said the band enjoyed watching their film as a sign of not just their success but their personal growth. "You watch some of our early interviews on the X Factor and we all sound like we're talking out of a script," he says. Whereas it just seems natural to talk on camera now. It was nice to watch the individual interviews from our perspective and see what Niall was thinking and how genuine it is. It's quite powerful. "It's great for us as a band and as friends that we've got that for our own personal use," Malik adds. It's a chapter of our lives that has been documented and we get to see what was happening, what our thoughts were at that time. It's going to be cool to have that when we're older. The band are acutely aware that outside of their loyal fanbase, cynical observers are wondering who'll be the first to jump ship. "Everyone wants to talk about the negative things, man, we're living a great life," Tomlinson says. It's all good. Watch the One Direction boys try on their new outfits in the new clip from ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (3D) There is now a boy band precedent set by Take That and Backstreet Boys - even if things go horribly, horribly wrong and members leave you can reform down the track and do it all over again. "Hopefully people are still interested in us that we can do that," a humble Horan says. I don't think it's a given. Take That could do it because they're just class, people couldn't wait for them to come back. Payne, 20, agrees. Those old '90s songs by Take That are classics, I can't really see our songs as classics, yet, it's all so new. However Horan kind of likes the idea of a vintage One Direction down the track. "Hopefully it will happen," he says. Imagine us coming out on stage at 50 years of age, kids and everything coming out on tour. But for right now there's no point splitting up if you're having a good time. They've also learnt from the various examples that have gone before them - with pop mastermind Simon Cowell unlikely to let his cash cow (20 million albums so far) go out to pasture just yet. "There's no real handbook for this," Payne admits. What happened to us is a first, with Twitter, it's a very different environment to what a lot of bands had to put up with in the past. We just take every day as it comes. The main thing is we literally do what we want. It's not like we'll change or do anything different because we're in this position now. We're still the same lads who got on that X Factor stage three years ago - just with more facial hair now. And some tattoos. Midnight Memories (Sony) is available now.