We may never know what song inspired One Direction's new single but we do know that the guys will be playing characters in the video. And we are getting some early glimpses of the fab fivesome's alter egos in the visual, which premieres on Monday.

While it's interesting to see all of the guys rock old-man makeup and bald caps to play various movers and shakers in what appears to be a Hollywood-themed video, Zayn Malik's makeover is perhaps the most surprising. Why? Well, he'll play a woman in the clip.

Zayn
The true identity of Zayn in drag has yet to be revealed, but his wigged-out appearance was teased in a clip on Friday (July 19), the same day the track got its first radio play.

Niall
Niall Horan plays Harvey, a ginger-bearded record exec with a receding hairline. Horan suits up with jacket and tie... and a little extra padding around the gut.

Louis
Louis Tomlinson is Johnny, another record exec lacking in the hair department. With a gold chain and furry chest, Johnny looks like quite the charmer.

Harry
Harry Styles will play a marketing guru named Marcel. Who else could rock the sweater vest and nerd glasses? With a little less makeup than Niall and Louis, Directioners can still see Harry's signature mug through the disguise.

Liam
Liam Payne gets a blond wig and pink headband for his character, Leeroy, a choreographer. And it gets better... there's leg warmers involved.

off the guys' third album, reportedly scheduled to ...

To hear "The Mortal Instruments" author Cassandra Clare enthuse about actor Jamie Campbell Bower's audition for Shadowhunter Jace Wayland, you'd think his performance were ordained by the angels above. But as the 24-year-old told MTV News during our San Diego Comic-Con live stream, he was much less confident about his prospects when he showed up to read opposite already-cast star Lily Collins.

"For me, going into that room, where you [Lily] had already been cast — it's such a big deal going in for a screen test for a major movie. I went on to the lot, and there I am on the lot going for an audition, and I was going, 'Oh god, this is just going to be a disaster,' " he recalled. "I didn't feel right for it at all."

But that all changed the minute he met Collins, who inspired an immediate ease within the actor.

"And then the moment I got there, I felt sort of comfortable around you. I felt really just sort of like we'd known each other for years," he said.

In a curious twist, Collins had actually been pushing for Bower to play her sexy-snarky love interest in the urban fantasy from the very beginning.

"I thought I had known him for years," Collins concurred of the meeting. "Jamie had been someone I, from the get-go when they asked me about casting Jace, had put forward from day one. And before he even walked in the room, in my mind, I was really set on this guy coming in and blowing it ...

SAN DIEGO— "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," one of the big movies taking the stage at Comic-Con this year, will introduce the world to a deep friendship, but it's not the one that fans might be expecting.

It's true that Peter Parker's childhood friend, Harry Osborn, will be returning from boarding school in the sequel due out next year, but it's the bromance between the actor playing Harry, Dane DeHaan, and the actor playing the movie's villain, Jamie Foxx, that we keep hearing about.

During Josh Horowitz's interview with Foxx at the , the actor couldn't help but share his enthusiasm for DeHaan, and he kept sharing again and again. So Josh just had to ask DeHaan what was up.

"He really likes me. We just had a lot of fun together," DeHaan said. "He just took a big liking to me our first day on set together. I'm very flattered, and I think he's amazing too. Watch out for that Jamie Foxx. He's going to go places, and he's going to do things. I have a feeling."

Foxx wasn't the only person DeHaan impressed over the course of making "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." Getting the role of Harry was not easy and involved a lengthy audition process. "It was this long, intense, drawn-out process where at three different points I was convinced it was all over and it wasn't happening," he said. "They just kept popping back up and popping back up. Ultimately, it ends with a big test, which is pretty nerve-racking. You know you're in this big competition essentially, ...

This summer, a new batch of pop princesses is out to claim their rightful places among some of the more-established chart queens in the genre like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. Two of the biggest contenders happen to be graduates from the school of

After the Nick sitcom wrapped up earlier this year, both Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande set off to record debut albums. Justice explained to MTV News what it was about the series that spurred so much musical creativity from the two multi-hyphenate performers.

"We're all very musical people, so I think it was just natural for us to want to put out our own music," Justice said. "And 'Victorious' was great practice for me. I had never really sung professionally until 'Victorious,' so it was great experience. It was great practice being in the studio, performing on the show, and it was just a lot of fun.

"And I actually wrote three songs that ended up on the show, which was very cool," she explained. "So that was really exciting. I think it really just set me up in the right way to be able to do both [acting and singing]. I'm passionate about both."

Justice just dropped her video for "Gold," serving as a tease for her own album, set to debut later this year. She said that with her teen-queen days behind her, she's ready to make a more grownup statement and that she's been given a lot of freedom to do so. "I'm in creative control. I'm steering the ship," ...

Who knew that you could take a song as synthy and dance-floor ready as Icona Pop's breakup anthem and transform it into a soulful ballad full of longing and passion? Well, crooner Robin Thicke, that's who.

During a recent appearance on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, the VMA-nominated singer decided to put his R&B spin on the Swedish duo's breakout hit, slowing it down, adding his signature falsetto and making some key lyrical edits along the way — for instance, "I'm from the '70s, but you're a '90s chick."

While the track might seem like an unusual choice for the "Blurred Lines" singer to tackle, he told MTV News that after an initial listen, he found he could relate to what the ladies have to say on the jam. "The funny thing is, I heard the song a week earlier, before the Icona Pop cover. And they ask you when you do this show ... to do a song that's within the Top 40 at the moment. And I thought, 'What about that song?' 'Cause I thought the lyrics were very fitting to my relationship," recalled Thicke, who is married to actress Paula Patton.

He continued, with a laugh, " 'Crash my car into a bridge,' it's a metaphor. I've been there many times in my relationship, so I felt like burning clothes and throwing things down stairs, crashing into a bridge — that's all me, very me — and still loving it."

While Thicke is a bit regretful he didn't get the chance to record it ...

There were a few things that A$AP Ferg wanted to accomplish with the video for his new single, "Shabba." Of course the Harlem native wanted to continue to establish himself as a rap star, but he also wanted to spotlight his entire A$AP crew and finally pay homage to dancehall legend Shabba Ranks, who he named the song after.

Shabba's 1990s reggae reign with songs like "Mr. Loverman," "Trailer Load a Girls" and "Ting-a-Ling" may predate A$AP's rise by nearly two decades, but Ferg was still able to bridge the generation gap and get the Jamaican-born star to appear in his vid.

"That's actually the real Shabba Ranks, live in effect right here," Ferg told MTV News on Thursday when he sat down and gave us a frame-by-frame breakdown of the video he premiered earlier this week.

The vid was shot by A$AP Rocky in a Yonkers, New York, mansion, and during one scene, Ferg and his Harlem crew are having a house party in what is supposed to be Shabba's home, without his knowledge, so when Ranks returns, he is plenty surprised.

"We found him — it's very rare, man. Our peoples reached out to his peoples and we finally got a hold of the legend," Ferg said of how the whole thing came together.

The "Shabba" track will appear on Ferg's debut album, Trap Lord, and is as rambunctious as his first single, "Work." What sets this new song apart, however, is Ferg's distinct Caribbean bounce. "Two shots to a bumbaclot mon/ Shabba Ranks, let it go in ya brain," ...

Idris Elba can currently be found canceling the apocalypse in Guillermo del Toro's rock 'em, sock 'em actioner "Pacific Rim," but come November 29, he'll star in a much different film, the Nelson Mandela biopic

The first trailer for the film, directed by Justin Chadwick, has hit the web (via Yahoo!), chronicling the 95-year-old's journey from anti-apartheid revolutionary to prisoner to South African president.

"He was public enemy #1. Hunted by the police. Feared by the government. Revolutionary. Outlaw. Rebel. Fighter. Radical. Liberator," the trailer declares in big, bold type, intercut with shots of rifle-wielding agents and fiery explosions. We witness Mandela meeting his second wife, social worker Winnie Madikizela (Naomie Harris), leading protest rallies and being tried and ultimately convicted for his supposed crimes, for which he spent 27 years in prison before being released and elected the president of South Africa a few years later.

The trailer concludes with rousing words from the icon: "Freedom, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

This first, full-length look is in stark contrast to the U.K. teaser released last week, which takes a much quieter approach to Mandela's story, showing him walking through a South African field with a stirring voice-over from Elba.

Addressing Mandela's recent health concerns, Elba told MTV News, "My heart and prayers are with his family at the moment."

"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," based on the icon's 1994 autobiography, opens November 29.

Although Riff Raff is currently assembling a "lawyer team" in an effort to get compensation for James Franco's alleged portrayal of him in the movie the rapper also known as Jody Highroller informed MTV News that he has no issues with Franco himself.

Riff confirmed to MTV Hive that he plans to sue — it's unclear for what, exactly — and that he will employ the services of a "lawyer team, of course."

Despite all that, he made it clear that he has no ill feelings toward the actor. "I'm sure he's cool," he told us. "I want him to be successful."

"Once I saw James Franco playing me in a movie — first of all, that's just phenomenal," he said. "It ain't about James Franco. It's about me in 'Spring Breakers.' It's about my band account. Will I get 10 million or will I get 5 million. Who knows? If I end up with only 5 million, then so be it. Whatever."

The Riff Raff vs. "Spring Breakers" fight has been rolling on for a while now — a complicated tale that basically boils down to the fact that director Harmony Korine reportedly asked the rapper to appear in "Spring Breakers," a debauched tale of excess and crime starring James Franco and a bevy of Disney stars including Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. This request didn't come to fruition, and in the end, the film featured James Franco playing a character named Alien who looks eerily similar to Riff.

An almost mock feud followed, with Jody Highroller ...

If its first single is any indication, Avicii is using his debut album, #True, to step out of his pop-electronic comfort zone.

While "Wake Me Up" incorporates his signature melodic vocals, this time from Aloe Blacc, the energy of the track was far from his usual pop electronic, with banjos and an overall country twang.

At a time when the predictability and repetition of electronic music is being criticized more and more, 23-year-old Tim Bergling made a choice to produce something so noticeably different from other house music — and even his own.

"I didn't want 'Levels' to identify me. In a sense, it's just a song, and I've always produced a lot of music, so I wanted to do something really different," he explained to MTV News at a #True listening party in New York. "I really wanted to make sure to do something different [with 'Wake Me Up'] than what anyone else is doing."

"Wake Me Up" was a #1 song within 45 minutes of its release, and it has climbed to #1 in 14 countries as of Thursday, proving to artists the high rewards that can come from taking high risks.

The single is not, however, the only changed element of Avicii's trajectory as an artist. When Avicii took the stage Wednesday night to play a few tracks of the album to his fans, music executives, and press in New York City, his other tracks garnered the same level of excitement as the single. For a genre that usually detours around a conventional single or album rollout, the traditionalism of the ...

SAN DIEGO — MTV will continue to hold it down at the center of the hurricane as San Diego Comic-Con 2013 rolls forward. We've got all of the action covered for anybody not lucky enough to score a Comic-Con badge. Our live stream is blasting across the web for another seven badass hours, with exclusive coverage and access galore.

MTV News correspondent Josh Horowitz and MTV Geek's Steven Smith will be in San Diego through Sunday, talking with the casts and creators of some of the Con's most-buzzed-about movies, TV shows and, of course, comic books. Friday's (July 19) scheduled appearances include Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from "The World's End," the casts of "Adventure Time" and "Children's Hospital," a gazillion people from "The Walking Dead" and much more.

Check out Friday's schedule below, and be sure to come back every morning for MTV Comic-Con Live.

(All times PST)

11 a.m., Day 2 kick-off:
Josh Horowitz and Steven Smith launch MTV's Comic-Con live stream with an exclusive clip from "Plants vs. Zombies vs. Jay & Silent Bob."

11 a.m., "Children's Hospital":
Ken Marino, Lake Bell, Rob Huebel, Erinn Hayes

11:15 a.m., DC Comics:
Geoff Johns ("Justice League," "Aquaman")

11:30 a.m. "I, Frankenstein":
Aaron Eckhart

11:45 a.m., Marvel Comics:
Joe Quesada (COO)

Noon, Marvel Animated's "Ultimate Spidey":
Exclusive clip, plus writers and producers

12:15 p.m., "Adventure Time":
Pendleton Ward, Jeremy Shada, Tom Kenny, Olivia Olson

12:30 p.m., "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones":
Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Godfrey Gao, Robert Sheehan

12:45 p.m., LEGO:
First looks and giveaways

1 p.m., "Orphan Black":
Graeme Manson, John Fawcett

1:15 p.m., MONDO:
Olly Moss (artist), Justin Ishmael (CEO/Creative Director) and exclusive announcement

1:30 p.m., ...