After a hiatus from public life and
interviews, Zayn Malik, the former One Direction member, appeared on a podcast
that aired Wednesday and talked about his decision to leave the group, what
life has been like since then and his new single in his first interview in
years.
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“There were great experiences, I had great
times with them, but we would just run our course”, Malik said of his time in
the band on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, hosted by Alex Cooper.
Malik was the first to leave One Direction
in 2015, after the group had steadily put out chart-topping songs like “What
Makes You Beautiful,” “Story of My Life” and “Best Song Ever”. The boy band,
assembled through the British musical competition show “The X Factor”, was
together for about six years and developed a feverish following among its young
fans, who were known for their shrieking and devotion to the five members.
“I just keep to myself. I knew what the situation was, I knew what happened and the people involved knew what happened, too”
One Direction continued to make music after
Malik’s departure, but the group officially disbanded in 2016. Malik put out
his debut solo single “Pillowtalk” that same year.
During the interview, Malik told Cooper
that around the time of his departure, the bandmates were beginning to clash.
“We had been together every day for five
years, and we had gotten sick of each other, if we are being completely
honest”, Malik said. “I look back on it now in a much fonder light than I would
have as I had just left.”
He began to see signs that it might be time
to go and that others might be doing the same, he said, and he wanted to “get
ahead of the curve” and “be the first” to release his own record.
“I do not want to go into too much detail,
but there was a lot of politics going on. People were doing certain things.
Some people did not want to sign contracts, so I knew something was happening”,
he said.
Cooper also broached the topic of a
reported confrontation between Malik and Yolanda Hadid, the mother of his
former girlfriend, supermodel Gigi Hadid, with whom he shares a daughter,
asking about his decision to largely remain silent on the issue. In response,
Malik said he believed that the issue should stay within the family.
“I just keep to myself. I knew what the
situation was, I knew what happened and the people involved knew what happened,
too”, Malik said. “I just didn’t want to bring attention to anything.”
“We had been together every day for five years, and we had gotten sick of each other, if we are being completely honest”
In recent years, he has lived a much
quieter life in suburban Pennsylvania. He said he was happy to get away from
the bustle of New York City, enjoying a life mostly free from paparazzi and
spending many of his days in the studio, writing and making music.
He said he enjoyed spending time with his
cats, dogs, turtles and chickens. (Malik noted that he got too attached to one
chicken that died and decided to stop naming them.)
Being out of the public eye also allows for
his daughter to live a more private life, should she choose to do so, he said.
“I’m just trying to give her an option,”
Malik said. “If she wants to be away from it, she can be out here.”
“There were great experiences, I had great times with them, but we would just run our course”
Malik said there was a constant stream of
fans following the band around when it was together. He recalled one day before
the band had ever released a single when fans hid in trash bins outside of a
studio in Sweden waiting for the performers to emerge, then popped out and
grabbed at them. “I think I had a mini heart attack,” he said, jokingly.
One Direction’s hit song “What Makes You
Beautiful” was on Billboard’s Hot 100 list for 34 weeks, peaking at No. four in
2012. In 2013, “Story of my Life” had similar staying power, with 32 weeks, and
peaked at No. six in 2013. “Best Song Ever” climbed the highest — it reached
the No. 2 spot in 2013 and spent 21 weeks on the chart.
The group held four world tours, performing
in North America, Asia, Europe and South America, and sometimes sold out shows
in minutes.
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