Zayn Malik Kind Of Encourages Fans To Smoke And Says He’s OK With Them Having Sex To His Album In COMPLEX Magazine: Must-Read
In just 4 days Zayn Malik will release his debut solo album “Mind of Mine”. And what has the British singer done just mere days before one of the most important moments of his life? Give an exclusive interview to COMPLEX magazine.
Here’s his cover for the April/May 2016 issue (pre-sale here):
In this exclusive talk with the magazine’s editor, although for this feature Zayn also agreed to take a bunch of new photos (see them above and below), Mr. Malik had to answer plenty of headline-y questions - some of them pretty bizarre.
For instance, Zayn had to respond about if he wanted people to have sex to his songs…!
Do you want people to have sex to your album?
Well, if that’s something that they would choose to do, then yeah.
Do you think people will?
Who knows? It’s a very sexual album. I’m sure it could fit into that scenario.
Awkward.
Another bizarre question was when the magazine editor asked the former One Direction star about his habit of smoking. And OMG at the answer Zayn gave:
How much do you smoke?
I smoked quite a bit in school. I used to write raps and I found it was quite helpful in that department, coming up with words and different concepts. It helped me think outside the box.
Although I appreciate Zayn’s honesty in this question, it is my belief that he could have been a little more intelligent and had given a more politically correct answer - in the sense he is a famous person with millions of fans and followers all over the world, and everything he says can affect and influence the lives of those (easy to manage) people.
That’s why this answer of kind of “praising” smoking and making it sound as a great tip to open the doors to creativity seems to be a bit unfortunate. Smoking (tobacco or weed, I don't care) is a bad habit that damages your health and should not be “encouraged” at all - especially when you are a person as famous as Zayn Malik. If he had only started his answer with a WARNING…kind of saying: “Although I don’t encourage fans to do it because it’s bad for you, and my lungs are not what they were used to, etc, etc….here’s what I use it for…”.
UPDATE: Sad. Look at this tweet...(see what I meant?).
ZAYN SMOKING IS THE HOTTEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN pic.twitter.com/VhGP3DbrSt
— # 1 Solo Zayn Stan (@letzaynbreathe) March 21, 2016
Other questions the “Like I Would” singer had to answer for COMPLEX included: his thoughts of Donald Trump (“I see the political thing. I see the Trump thing. I see it on the news”) or when is he going to finally talk candidly about his religion (“In today’s day and age, it’s very hard to make any sort of statement that doesn’t offend somebody”). Zayn is muslim.
To read the full Zayn for COMPLEX interview, click here.