One Direction Enlists Fan Support for 'Dear World Leaders' Plea

With only approximately 200 days until One Direction's hiatus — which they promise is just a break but, like, we know how that goes — they are making the best of their time. They're sending a message to the leaders of the world: We are here, they are saying. This is what we want. #BuyDragMeDownOniTunes.

In the video called "Dear World Leaders," fans of One Direction worldwide speak the change they want to see in the world, including universal education, clean drinking water, energy conservation.

The boys of 1D are only present for the beginning of the video; Harry Styles, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson do the talking; Niall Horan's speaking priviledges must have been revoked as the last time he opened his pretty little mouth he spilled the beans on the band's big B-R-E-A-K.

The video, which will be shown on all remaining stops of the band's current tour, is part of the action/1D campaign, itself a part of action/2015, a citizens' movement aimed at making this year the one to begin the process of ending extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.

action/1D is not the group's first foray into public advocacy. In 2013, the group released the music video to "One Way or Another," which they'd filmed themselves, donating the video's budget to charity. The video itself was in support of Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon to raise money for Comic Relief.

In the meantime, what is One Direction's recently liberated former bad boy up to? Well, here he is shirtless on one of eight new covers of Interview magazine's #ME Issue. So there's that.

Zayn Malik on the cover of Interview magazine's Me Issue
Zayn Malik on the cover of Interview magazine's Me Issue

Going solo looks... relaxing.