Nobody Is Listening is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Zayn. It was released on 15 January 2021 through RCA Records. It is Malik's third solo album, following the masterpiece Icarus Falls, released in 2018. Nobody Is Listening was preceded by the singles "Better" and "Vibez".
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Zayn for “British Vogue”
In the December issue of British Vogue, Zayn discusses breaking away from the boyband mould, not making a single friend during his five years in One Direction and what life is like now with model girlfriend Gigi Hadid.
Zayn. The reputation of the Muslim-raised British-Pakistani working-class boy from West Yorkshire precedes him. He shot to fame as a member of X Factor success story One Direction, fled the band in March 2015 – at the peak of their tween-fuelled fame – and forged his own path as a solo artist. He moved to the US, scored a campaign deal for Versace’s diffusion line Versus and fell in love with Gigi Hadid. Billions of streams and millions of social followers racked up.
How did he cope with such a stratospheric career trajectory? “We went from theatres, to arenas, to stadiums – there was never any sort of bridge between. Just boom, boom, boom,” the now 25-year-old tells Vogue features director Giles Hattersley of One Direction’s demanding schedule. “I guess that kind of progression to any mind – but especially when you’re 17, 18 – it kind of affects you a little bit. People take it different ways – especially when there are five different personalities. The relationships had broken apart.”
Indeed, Zayn says he came away from his five years in One Direction without having made a single friend. “Yeah,” he says. “I have always been a bit like that, though – always a bit of an island. I don’t like to confer with too many people.” Does he see any of the band still? “Nah. I ain’t spoke to any of them for a long time, to be honest with you. That’s just the way it is. There’s things that happen and things that were said after I left… Snide things. Small things that I would never have expected.”
The love lost between his fellow bandmates – Zayn and Harry Styles had as little to do with one another as possible during their time in the band – might be minimal, but he’s content living in semi-isolation in SoHo with Hadid. “Everything is great,” he says of their relationship, which weathered a brief, but very public, split and reconciliation earlier this year. “She’s super-organised and I’m really not. It helps that she can get things together for me a little bit. I lean on her a lot.”
