Zayn Malik was known as the "mysterious" one
while he was in One Direction, and it seems as
though he's kept that title even after he left.
But on Tuesday, Fader published the 22-year-
old's first major interview since quitting the boy
band. And during the lengthy sit-down, the UK
native decided to clear the air about a lot of the
recent decisions in his life.
Related: Simon Cowell Knew Zayn Was Leaving
1D!
That makes sense, especially since in the past
Liam Payne had said that the band's pop sound
wasn't Zayn's "sort of music."
When the singer finally decided to leave, he
revealed that it was somewhat of a spontaneous
decision, explaining:
"I was always thinking it. I just didn't know when I
was going to do it. Then by the time I decided to
go, it just felt right on that day. I woke up on that
morning, if I'm being completely honest with you,
and was like, ‘I need to go home. I just need to be
me now, because I've had enough.' I was with my
little cousin at the time—we were sat in the hotel
room—and I was just, ‘Should I go home?' And he
was like, ‘If you want to go home, let's go home.'
So we left."
The singer also explained that his departure from
the group had nothing to do with the rumors
circulating that he had cheated on his then-
fiancée Perrie Edwards, adding:
"The two things never really coincided in my
mind. Obviously, publicly, that's the way it
worked, because it worked well for the purpose.
Them two stories looked good together side by
side. Stories came out because we were in
Thailand, and we were out and about. If we were
out in Australia, if we were out in India, the same
thing would have happened. It was just at a peak
where the fame was intrusive and invasive. It
wasn't because of that that I left—that was just a
contributing factor to everything. I'd already made
my mind up before that."
And he definitely wanted to clear up one huge
misconception about his breakup with the Little
Mix lady, stressing that he did NOT end their
engagement through text:
"If you could word it exactly this way, I'd be very
appreciative. I have more respect for Perrie than
to end anything over text message. I love her a
lot, and I always will, and I would never end our
relationship over four years like that. She knows
that, I know that, and the public should know that
as well. I don't want to explain why or what I did,
I just want the public to know I didn't do that."
While Zayn shattered that speculation, he also
shattered the dreams of any shippers who hope
for romantic relationships between the remaining
boys in the band, saying:
"There's no secret relationships going on with any
of the band members. It's not funny, and it still
continues to be quite hard for them. They won't
naturally go put their arm around each other
because they're conscious of this thing that's
going on, which is not even true. They won't do
that natural behavior. But it's just the way the fans
are. They're so passionate, and once they get their
head around an idea, that's the way it is
regardless of anything. If it wasn't for that
passionate, like, almost obsession, then we
wouldn't have the success that we had."
And even though 1D dropped their first album
without him, the musician had still shown his
support for his former bandmates' new music.
But that doesn't necessarily mean he prefers to
listen to their tunes for fun. He confessed that
One Direction's music probably won't show up
on his "Recently Played" playlist:
"That's not music that I would listen to. Would
you listen to One Direction, sat at a party with
your girl? I wouldn't. To me, that's not an insult,
that's me as a 22-year-old man. As much as I was
in that band, and I loved everything that we did,
that's not music that I would listen to. I don't
think that's an offensive statement to make."
Now that he's on his own, Perrie's ex finally feels
free to express himself musically, exclaiming:
"To me, it's like I stood in front of a canvas for
about five years, and someone said like, ‘You're
not allowed to paint on this canvas.' I've got the
paint, I've got the f*cking brushes, and I can't get
it on there. Now someone removed the plastic
and was like, ‘Alright, you can now paint.'"
However, Directioners, this new move towards
independence doesn't mean he's totally done with
the famous foursome. In fact, he revealed that he
had actually recently reconnected with Liam,
saying:
"It was the first time I'd spoken to him since I left
the band, and I rung him, and he wanted to talk.
He said that he didn't understand it at the time,
but he now fully gets why I had to do what I did.
He understands that it's my thing, that I had to do
that, and that basically he wants to meet up and
sit down and have a good chat in person, and he
wants to do some music and work on some stuff
aside from being in the band, which we always
wanted to do anyway."
It seems like Zayn is finally happy now that he
can make the kind of music he wants.
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