Zayn Malik breaks silence on One Direction music: “If I sang anything, it would be generic as f**k”

Zayn Malik has admitted he’d never play his old One Direction music at a cool party because he’s not actually that into it.

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In a super-revealing interview with Fader magazine, the ex-boybander opened up about just how much creativity he was allowed in the band.

“There was never any room for me to experiment creatively in the band,” he claimed.

“If I would sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would always be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, generic as f**k, so they could use that version.”

Zayn went on to say he “wasn’t 100 per cent behind” the music that he, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan sang, because it was “already given to us” and they were told what would sell best to their fandom.

“As much as we were the biggest, most famous boy band in the world, it felt weird. We were told to be happy about something that we weren’t happy about.”

Wow. It’s unusual for a singer to be so forthcoming about their experiences within a huge, global band – but Zayn had more to say.

“That’s not music that I would listen to,” he said of 1D’s old hits. “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,” he continued.

“I don’t think that’s an offensive statement to make. If I was sat at a dinner date with a girl, I would play some cool shit, you know what I mean?”

Zayn, who in the same interview admitted he “still loves” ex-fiancee Perrie Edwards and denied dumping her by text, also opened up about his quitting the band back in March, claiming that he woke up one morning and decided to leave.

“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.”

You can read the full Fader interview here.

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