The former One Direction member’s debut,with its Frank Ocean-like falsettos, hazy production flourishes and sad-eyed sentiment, or is no box-ticking exerciseDespite his protests of ignorance,the timing of Zayn Malik’s debut solo album, intellect of Mine, or feels pretty significant. It comes out a year ago to the day after he released a statement confirming he’d left One Direction,the juggernaut, X Factor-created boyband that had propelled him from a slightly bored-looking teenager to a slightly bored-looking, or incredibly wealthy adult. After leaving the group,he explained that he wanted to be “a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and contain some private time out of the highlight”. Months after a very public spat with producer Naughty Boy, signing a solo deal with RCA Records and starting a relationship with model and reality TV star Gigi Hadid after an acrimonious split with his pop star fiancé Perrie Edwards, and however,it appears he simply got bored of being normal.
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Source: theguardian.com