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Must-Read: Zayn Malik Shades One Direction & Reveals New Songs Titles And Spring Release For Debut Solo Album In Billboard Magazine!

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Zayn Malik is on the cover of the latest issue of Billboard Magazine and the interview he’s given, which can be read in its entirety inside, is all kinds of juicy. He basically shaded his former friends of One Direction really bad and talked about his much-anticipated debut solo album. Public shade? Zayn ain’t holding back anymore. Apparently his New Year’s Resolution was to be more honest in 2016.

First the not-so-juicy-yet-also-interesting-to-read part.

On new music:

“My fans are giving me shit every day,” he says. “Like, ‘Where the f--- is your music? You’ve been at it for months. Give us something.’ ” It’s around 9 p.m. the Monday after Thanksgiving, and the 22-year-old is indeed about to give up something, though not to his adoring public -- they’ll have to wait for a solo album due early this spring on RCA.
He has gone to unusual lengths in pursuit of his muse, for one. “We went camping for a week in the Angeles Forest -- set up a generator and a tent so we could track in the woods,” says producer James “Malay” Ho (who has become Malik’s main collaborator, Malay believes, due to his Grammy-winning work on Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange). “It was the complete opposite of what he’d been doing. We had the gas grill, BB guns, bows and arrows. It was a shittin’-in-the-woods-type thing.”
Happily, Malik opened up to Billboard about the album, sharing a few track titles off BeFour. The story's writer, Chris Martins, sheds some details on the style of a few different tunes after listening. "[Zayn's] poised to impress the dominant music geeks of the day, who care less about guitar-slingers than artful practitioners of beats and atmosphere, like Drake and The Weeknd. Finely wrought details stand out: the sour synth of “BeFour,” a sweep of strings in “It’s You,” the whip-crack snare of “Wrong.”" He also writes about being at Los Angeles' Record Planet and hearing "She."

Tidbits:

* Zayn’s debut solo album is out this Spring.

* New song titles: “It’s You”, “Wrong” and “She”.

On his solo album's recording process:

“He has gone to unusual lengths in pursuit of his muse, for one. “We went camping for a week in the Angeles Forest -- set up a generator and a tent so we could track in the woods,” says producer James “Malay” Ho (who has become Malik’s main collaborator, Malay believes, due to his Grammy-winning work on Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange). “It was the complete opposite of what he’d been doing. We had the gas grill, BB guns, bows and arrows. It was a shittin’-in-the-woods-type thing.”
He even smokes pot with a degree of ambition -- Malik only burns sativa (the more energizing, cerebral strain of marijuana), because it’s “creative weed.”

Zayn using weed to get your inspiration up? No surprises here.

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Now the juicy part...!

On 1D's latest era:

When it comes to Made in the A.M., the fifth and perhaps final 1D album, recorded without him and released about two weeks before our talk, Malik admits he hasn’t even heard it. “Nah,” he says. “I’ll be honest. I thought the first single was quite cool. I heard the second single and” -- he screws up his face -- “yeah, I didn’t buy the album.”
“I genuinely enjoyed [the band] and did whatever I could to be myself within that, but it’s just not where I sit as a musician,” he says. “The other boys’ taste was generally indie rock. It’s good music, but I don’t f--- with it. That was never cool where I was from.”

Oh the shade. The SHADE.

Kudos to the journalist in charge of the interview and the article text for including the very important comment of “*he screws up his face*”.

I really have no idea what’s the point or what does Zayn win by shading One Direction but I like it…*sips cup of tea*. Will he be spilling more beans like this in the near future? I certainly hope so!

And yeah, can’t wait for the Spring to come already. Zayn’s debut solo album is either going to be the best thing ever or the music tragedy of 2016.

Thoughts?

By on January 7, 2016
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