The boys of 5 Seconds of Summer, nominated for "Artist to Watch" award at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, sat down with MTV to talk about 100 things viewers may not know about the VMAs – including that the group members want to walk the red carpet in booty shorts or American Apparel underwear!

The Australian pop punk band was interviewed by MTV about a variety of Video Music Awards trivia, as the 5SOS boys told viewers all about the nominees – including themselves! Calum Hood, Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, and Ashton Irwin talked all about their fellow musicians, the history of the awards show, and what their plans were for their very first MTV Video Music Awards.

When asked by MTV “if they had to wear either American Apparel underwear or their superhero costumes to the VMAs,” 5 Seconds of Summer didn’t hesitate to choose the underwear. Then, the video switched to a funny clip of the members trying on some bright colored American Apparel underwear over their clothes.

After that, they were asked what they would like to wear on the MTV Video Music Awards 2014 Red Carpet, and they exclaimed “booty shorts!”

It seems like they really want to find a way to show some skin at the VMAs this year!

Could they be attempting to follow in the footsteps of one of their musical inspirations, blink-182?

When MTV asked the four 5 Seconds of Summer musicians were asked what their “favorite music video of all time” was, they responded with the infamous “What’s My Age Again?” video by blink-182. In the video, the 90’s punk rockers run through the streets butt naked.

So is this a case of musical inspiration gone awry? Has blink-182 inspired the group to strip down for this year’s VMAs?

It seems like the group is already pretty comfortable wearing not very much clothing.

At Sunday’s “Teen Choice Awards,” 5 Seconds of Summer had to accept their award for Choice Music: Breakout Group and Choice Summer: Music Group via video because they couldn’t be their in person, they chose to do it in nothing but a towel.

Holding the surfboard across their chests, the 5SOS team thanked fans for the award and then pretended to break off to go shower.

But, as E! News reports, “some fans noticed that Irwin seemed to have an unusual bulge protruding from beneath his towel around his crotch. While we're not really sure what was going on with the 20-year-old's towel, Irwin took to Twitter last night to react to the Internet chatter about his ‘boner.’”

"Apparently I had a boner in the acceptance video.." wrote Irwin on his Twitter page, seeming not to care as much as you would think about the awkward incident.

Do you think the VMA nominees will still want to hit the awards show minus their clothes? Or do you think Ashton and the boys may have been changed their minds after the Teen Choice Awards "bulge" appearance? Let us know in the comments section below!