Eventually, when I got older, I rebelled against it, and decided to keep it anyway," he told Complex.
But among the restrictions of being in a boy-band, one of the big ones was his beard. He does mention that he was frustrated with the musical and artistic limitations of the band, and wanted to be his own authentic sexy-music making self. He left One Direction over differences of hairstyling opinions. "I'm sure it could fit into that scenario." "It's a very sexual album," he told La Puma. When asked point blank if he's trying to make an album people will want to have sex to, he hedges a bit, noting "if that's something that they would choose to do, then yeah." But then the truth comes out, and it is exactly what you expect. Zayn's singles thus far seem to be dedicated to convincing the album-buying public that he is a sexy adult who makes sexy songs. Zayn wants you to have sex to his album (if that's what you want to do). Here's what we learned about his split with 1D, his famous girlfriend, and what his future holds.
Now, on the verge of his solo record Mind of Mine, coming out, Malik spoke with Joe La Puma from Complex. Over the past year, while Directioners have rent their garments and poured hundreds of thousands of words worth of post-Zayn fan fiction onto the Internet, Zayn's been steadily distancing himself from his past life.
Last spring, nearly a full calendar year ago, Zayn Malik went rogue, jumping ship from tween-heartthrobs One Direction and striking out on his own as a solo R&B artist.