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According to the Daily Mail, he was heading to a studio today.

That was quick.....

See, I really don't think it's a matter of him not being able to cope with being famous at all. It definitely seems like it's more to do with coping with One Direction levels of fame.

 

I reckon he's still very much invested in the music industry, but just isn't interested in the path he was taking with the group.

I wouldn't be surprised to see him release music and then not promote it. Just self-release it using the millions he's made from being part of 1D.

Without Zayn Malik, One Direction become four goofy white guys shouting

 

I’m a fan of One Direction’s music. It’s very efficient pop music that doubles as ecstatic, funny, and emotionally complex arena rock. Becoming a fan of One Direction’s music has inadvertently and perhaps inevitably drawn my focus toward the individual members of the band, my favourite of which was initially Zayn Malik, who has now left them in order to live the life of a “normal 22-year-old”.

 

Malik’s function in the band was in some ways obscure or invisible. He didn’t write for the band often, and when he did he usually appeared among a galaxy of co-writers on the group’s most gelatinous ballads (Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne are responsible for the majority of the group’s internal songwriting). His modesty and the economy of his expression gave him the reputation of the “quiet one” and the “mysterious one” among the boy band taxonomies. In the One Direction documentary, This Is Us, he features minimally compared to the rest of the group; when the band takes a break from their aggressive and interminable touring schedule, Malik is depicted in isolation, in a room he’s decorated entirely with graffiti. In another scene, he streams by the camera on a Segway. His smile seems to materialise slowly and almost imperceptibly across his face, composing itself atom by atom.

 

He’s also frankly gorgeous, all sculpted, glossy angles. When I look at the structure of his face I am reminded of a geometric prism, or the interior of a geode. These features were identifiable even early in their careers when the other four members appeared to be one elastic teenage face. His hair is also shapely, shimmering and kind of incandescently dark, as if permanently enhanced by a follow spot. Its styling never quite collapsed into the strange vertical animals emerging from the skulls of Tomlinson or Niall Horan. An enduring image of One Direction is of Malik in the Night Changes video, the soft and intricate cascade of his hair merging with a dense knot of spaghetti.

 

He was one of the more accomplished vocalists of the group, exhibiting the widest range. He mostly inhabited a silvery, full-bodied tenor, similar to but more sharp and precise than Harry Styles’ smoky warble. At one point in This Is Us, while on tour, he is extracted from sleep by songwriter/producer Julian Bunetta to record the bridge of Best Song Ever, into which Malik compressed a tenor and falsetto vocal. His solos, especially on the ballad You & I, could be dazzling, his voice moving with grace through impressive aerial designs, and he contributed body and dimension to the group’s choruses.

 

In most One Direction choruses, five voices of varying integrity collapse into a single, compact chord. It’s an arena rock aesthetic, treating harmonies as if they’re a system of collapsing stars; it gives the condensing voices a kind of internal velocity. It also makes One Direction songs near-impossible to simulate at karaoke without profound breath and pitch control. (I’ve tried. A lot.) I think this is the source of a lot of their appeal; their voices and the instrumentation, which is usually minimal guitar figures against fluorescent banks of synths, cause their songs feel like a form of glam rock that’s rushing at you in three dimensions.

 

The remaining members of One Direction have only performed a few concerts without Malik, so it’s hard to determine if his subtraction from the group creates an imbalance in the harmonic attack. But he leaves a void of personality, a void of vocal agility. Without him the group loses some of its distinctiveness and slowly morphs into four goofy white guys shouting. Regardless,

last night, after the bridge of You & I, Harry, Louis, Liam, and Niall stopped singing. The audience delivered Zayn’s solo.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog...e-guys-shouting

So essentially "Zayn is the only one I find hot so the others have no unique qualities"? Alright.

Did everyone else read the rest of the Daily Mail article?

 

While Zayn may go solo eventually, trust me there is no way he will allowed to for the foreseeable future. I think this is completely different situation.

 

I genuinely believe that he left the band to save his future marriage. The fact that all the reports show Perrie/Zayn have been distant for 2015, she takes off her engagement ring, and now she's wearing it. He must have left to concentrate with her. Going in to the studio can mean a lot of things, especially when the Daily Mail report it.

Simon Cowell has over worked them. All he see's are 5 Million Pound investments

 

Louis reaction on twitter:

Louis Tomlinson @Louis_Tomlinson

Been a crazy couple of days but know that we are going to work harder than ever to deliver the best album we've ever made for you guys !

 

Louis Tomlinson @Louis_Tomlinson

Your support has been incredible , truly incredible so thank you so much !

 

With Zayn now gone, Louis and Niall need to get their vocals up to scratch so that the band is not just Harry with the occasional Liam line

A twitlonger (a word that puts the fear of God into any Girls Aloud fan) from Liam

 

In light of recent events I think this is important to say.

For the past five years now I’ve been part of something so special I don’t think any of us really understand, something that can mean the world to people and put a smile on the face of our fans even in the darkest times. To a lot of people it’s just a bunch of silly kids in a band but to the people involved it means so much more. This last week has been some of the worst times, possibly the worst it’s something we are all deeply saddened by. It’s sad to think for the time being we won’t grace the stage as five bros or have the same fun on a tour bus or laughs in a hotel together that we have over the years but I’m super sure us and zayn will always remain the closest friends. I guess what I’m really trying to say is it’s far from over. When we very 1st became successful we all agreed that one direction had become much bigger than each individual member that’s why I feel like right now it’s ok to be sad and upset but I do ask everyone who is a fan of us to please keep ur faith in us I’m sure there’s a lot more to come all love

Liam

Zayn has his first interview tomorrow in The Sun.

Interesting... hope some stuff from the interview will come out tonight about 10pm like it normally does.

That Zayn loving article was overwhelmingly biased. They have lost something with Zayn leaving but they've certainly not most everything. And "four goofy white kids", really? Why not just "four goofy kids", why the need to emphasise white? Hate articles like that.

 

Nice Twitlonger *shudder* from Liam about it all, at least he has mentioned Zayn and clarified things. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual tweets from them individually were worded to them by management.

 

I'll be interested to read what Zayn says in the interview! Kind of surprised that he's allowed to talk so quickly.

"I just can't do that anymore because it's not real to me"

 

Just shows the sort of bubble they really were/are in with this band.

Read the interview on my lunch and it was honestly so endearing and sad. I'm just glad that he's found the power to leave now before things ended up taking a much darker and larger toll on him than they already have. :(

A bit of drama last night between Louis and Naughty Boy

After Naughty boy retweeted some Zaughty(ship name of Zayn and Naughty boy) tweets and a video louis was done with him.

 

Wow @NaughtyBoyMusic you're so inconsiderate pal , seriously how f***ing old are you ? Grow up ! #masterofallwisdom

 

Louis Tomlinson @Louis_Tomlinson

Always have struggled to bite my tongue

 

Louis Tomlinson @Louis_Tomlinson

@dorksnouis in reply to that stupid video he RT'd . Clearly trying to wind you lot up !!!

 

Louis Tomlinson @Louis_Tomlinson

Big love to all our fans ! Seriously thank you you guys have been unbelievable , can't wait to play Cape Town . Gonna be a BIG show !!!.

 

Then Naughty Boy replied with a dumb excuse

Naughty Boy @NaughtyBoyMusic

@Louis_Tomlinson calm down. was talkin bout Louis Walsh cuz he didn't let someone through on X factor. Look @ the date of the tweet. 😂 #2014

 

Louis replied to him again

Louis Tomlinson

@Louis_Tomlinson

@NaughtyBoyMusic I was talking about the video you tweeted . Clearly trying to wind the fans up ! Well you succeeded anyway . Fair play

 

And then Naughtyboy dropped a solo demo of Zayn.

 

I have the feeling that Zayn wanted to go solo is the big reason he left and that Naughty Boy is a bit behind Zayn leaving.

 

 

 

At last, some DRAMA

 

Someone let me know when the tell all books come out at Christmas.

Poor Zayn's bodyguard tho

 

@prestonmahon: Guys , just so you know , I'm just as sad about Zayn leaving the band , I've been with them 5 years , but I respect his choice :-/

 

@prestonmahon: I have to respect it , even tho it's put me out of work now :-( but I'll bounce back , I hope x

(very reliable source incoming), but when I was walking past the magazines at lunch today, Heat had an insert on the front saying Zayn's been wanting to leave for over 11 months now. Honestly wouldn't surprise me. :(

I can believe that tbh, he's not looked happy on stage in a while. I'm kinda glad he's left, for his own good, it must be difficult trapped in something you don't want to be a part of.

Well it could be many reasons - tho I'm sure the Perrie thing in the papers is what tipped him over the edge.

 

I guess we'll never truly know until a few years time when we get the REAL autobiographies. I mean everyone knows that Zayn did some work with Naughty Boy that didn't make the album. I wonder if he didn't like the musical direction route the band were going down, i.e. pop rock. I think the other four are very comfortable with it. So odd though that he would go in to the studio straight away.