UK based pop group One Direction are due to release their new album 'FOUR' this month and they have revealed that taking control of their career has been a significant step in the evolution of their sound. 

Louis Tomlinson explained to Australian site News.com that it's important to retain a certain level of creative control in order to be considered a credible band because the stigma that comes with being a boyband is overwhelming:

"It’s so easy to look at us and say we are a boyband and straight away be judged by that, to always be considered a manufactured band. It is so important for us to get involved in the writing and achieve the credibility that comes with that. And we are all control freaks to a certain level.”

Bandmate Liam Payne went onto add that now they're such an established act, they wanted to have even more input in terms of songwriting and aim to perform genuine material they have written themselves: “We all love to have control of what we are doing as a band and we like to know where the musical direction is going. I want to be on stage singing something I have written."

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Watch One Direction's Google Hangout below: