Zayn Says He’s Happy, Don’t Worry. Whether it’s about his new album or mental wellness, Zayn says, “My fans can rest assured everything is under control.”

Last week I got a phone call: “Zayn feels like doing an interview.” I’d been waiting for this moment ever since the bad boy of Bradford’s 2015 FADER cover story, his first major press since going solo and one my favorite pieces we’ve put to print. Our original interview was in the lead-up to Zayn’s debut album, Mind of Mine, and this one, done ahead of the Sia-featuring “Dusk Till Dawn,” signals things are finally coming into place for his sophomore LP.

Details are still scant on Z2 — he wouldn’t tell me the title or release date, though “a tour is definitely on the cards” this time. But as is always the case with Zayn, if you read between the lines you can see mountains. He’s sleeping well. He’s gardening. He tells a beautiful story about translating English letters to his immigrant grandfather. Great things are coming “soon.”

Here’s everything Zayn wants you to know.

When I heard we were going to talk again I tweeted “What would you ask Zayn?” and I already got 2,000 replies. So we just have to run through those real quick.

Shit, yeah, I’ve got time for it. Don’t worry about it.

The biggest thing people said is just: Is Zayn happy? Is he healthy? Is he getting his rest?

I am, yeah. Super. I definitely am. I’m going to bed quite early at the minute. I’ve been working in the studio throughout the day and going to bed at a reasonable time, getting up at reasonable times. Eating all my meals. I’ve got a gym at the house, so I’ve starting doing a bit of training. My fans can rest assured everything is under control, haha.

When are you going to quit smoking, Zayn? I see you smoking too much.

I don’t know. I can’t give an answer to that because it would probably be a lie. We’ll just say “soon.” Continue Reading ➔

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ZAYN is on the show chatting to Scott and Chris about his new single, life as a pop star and why he’s gone and shaved his head! life as a pop star and why he’s shaved his head!

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The 24-year-old reveals the childhood inspiration behind his blockbuster video for ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ – the first single from an upcoming second album full of pop experiments searching for “what’s out of character in R&B.”

ZAYN dropped the first single from his upcoming second album yesterday, marking the start of a new chapter in his sharply-watched evolution from boy band hitmaker to R&B solo success. But the bombastic ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ wasn’t what some predicted. After the sleek, chrome sounds and carefully curated cast of underground collaborators on his 2016 album Mind Of Mine stressed an intimate, adult new direction, what arrived yesterday was a stadium ballad produced by pop production maestro Greg Kurstin, assisted by Sia and doused in Hollywood spectacle.

“It’s definitely a nod to a particular era of music videos,” he tells FACT about its Marc Webb-directed video, a Chinatown heist mini-movie crammed into five action-packed minutes. “The early ‘90s, around that period, people really tried to make these epic, intense movies for their videos, Michael Jackson being a great example of that. I wanted to come back and give my fans something along those lines rather than just some blasé video.”

ZAYN says he and Webb took “a lot of reference from old gangster movies that I grew up watching – Casino, Goodfellas and so on. I used to watch a lot of aggressive shooting movies. Now to be honest I’m more about watching documentaries on all kinds of random shit on Netflix,” he laughs. “I must be getting old.”
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Since leaving One Direction, Zayn Malik, the group’s first émigré, has walked his own path in more ways than one. From heavy metal tuxes to vintage band merch, this year the one-time boy wonder became a man to look up to.

Zayn Malik has come a long way. Not just geographically (our shoot in Los Angeles happened a full 5,282 miles away from his hometown of Bradford), but also since he left One Direction – one of the most successful boy bands of all time. Since March 2015 he’s had a phenomenally successful first album (Mind Of Mine hit No1 on both sides of the Atlantic) and a global smash debut single in the form of “Pillowtalk” (he’s the first British act in chart history to kick-start their career with a No1 single on the American Billboard Hot 100), as well as dating the most famous supermodel in the world, Gigi Hadid. Now he’s repping a tux for his second GQ cover this year and preparing to take home the Hugo Boss Most Stylish Man Of The Year award.

Quick reminder: the man’s only 24 years old. If there was an entry in the dictionary for the phrase “stratospheric rise to fame”, Malik’s picture would be next to it – possibly multiple shots featuring the myriad haircuts and colours he’s tried out since going solo.

And he’s not slowing down. Last night he was in the studio he’s built in his LA pad, working on new material and putting the finishing touches to the tracklist of his second album (due later this year). Turns out, it’s been a very different experience from his first record. Continue Reading ➔

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“Dusk Till Dawn” music video is finally out! You can watch it below:

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Thanks to Sony Music Malaysia’s Twitter‏ now we can enjoy photos from the set of “Dusk Till Dawn” music video. You can check them out in our gallery:

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Zayn is on the cover of the October issue of British GQ after winning the award for “Hugo Boss Most Stylish Man” at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards. Zayn unfortunately could not attend the event because he is in the middle of preparing for the release of his new single “Dusk Till Dawn”.

From GQ’s official site: “Some might say that going solo after years safely cocooned as a member of one of the world’s most famous bands would be a risky move. Not for this man. His phenomenal first album, Mind Of Mine, hit No1 on both sides of the Atlantic, and with his debut single, “Pillowtalk”, became only the third ever Brit to kick-start their solo career at the top of the American charts. But it’s not just music – with a sense of style that is both effortless and idiosyncratic, it’s GQ’s Most Stylish Man, Zayn Malik.”

Read why @zaynmalik is the @HUGOBOSS Most Stylish Man of the Year 2017 https://t.co/LVWmyI4nle #GQAwards #ThisIsBoss #ManOfToday pic.twitter.com/YWJOv3j3vf

— British GQ (@BritishGQ) 8 września 2017

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