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Is it getting hot in here?!
Zayn Malik just released the music video for his first single, “Pillowtalk,” and it's filled with sexy shots of the singer getting cozy with girlfriend Gigi Hadid.
The lyrics are quite a departure from the pop songs he sang with One Direction.
"F--king you, and fighting on," he sings. "It's our paradise and it's our war zone/ It's our paradise and it's our war zone." Wowza!
Just hours before releasing the video, Zayn talked all about the track in a new interview with Apple Music's Beats 1.
"It's all my creative direction," he said about the music video, revealing his excitement for the release. "That's something that's massively just… liberating, shall we say? It just feels great to be able to do whatever and take responsibility in myself and be like… yeah, I did that, so if you don't like it, then it's cool because I like it so I don't give a sh*t."
The former 1D crooner said his new record is called "Mind of Mine" and will likely contain 17 or 18 songs.
"I don't really go out much. But like, I'm very like phase-based with what I do," Malik said of his new sound. "So, right now, I'm just like, I'm not on that, so I just, when I have fun I just like, hang around with just a few people that that I know that are friends of mine and we have a drink, whatever."
"And you're in a relationship too, by the sound of it," host Zane Lowe said, without naming names. "Yeah," Malik replied. "We're good friends."
They certainly look like more than friends in the video!
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During the interview, Malik admitted he "never really wanted to be" in One Direction and thought about leaving after a year.
"How do you write a song from five people's perspective?" he said of the group's struggle to write together. "You kind of just go with whatever's going on and I just didn't want to be like the person to say that I was right because who am I to say that?"
"It feels great to be able to just do whatever and take the responsibility myself," he added.
