--- description: The former One Direction star makes his solo debut with "Pillowtalk" and releases new album Mind of Mine on March 25. title: Watch Zayn Malik's Steamy Video for Solo Debut 'Pillowtalk' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Zayn Malik's Steamy Video for Solo Debut 'Pillowtalk'  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2016 1:54 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 29, 2016 1:54 PM CUT Zayn Malik has wasted no time since he left One Direction to be a normal 22-year-old to become a solo artist in his own right. On March 25, exactly one year after he [first announced his departure](https://www.facebook.com/onedirectionmusic/posts/869295683125227 "undefined") from the boy band, Zayn—he’s just Zayn now, no last name—will release his debut solo album, _Mind of Mine_. It can’t be a coincidence that the record will drop on the one-year anniversary of the [Facebook-post-heard-’round-the-world](https://www.facebook.com/onedirectionmusic/posts/869295683125227 "undefined"), but Zayn seems determined to break with his boy-band image. He just released the video for his first single, “Pillowtalk,” and the sultry R&B slow-jam offers a lot of what you wouldn’t find in a One Direction video: naked women, references to Zayn’s sex life, and [his girlfriend, Gigi Hadid](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/6813929/zayn-malik-gigi-hadid-dating-joe-jonas-perrie-edwards-one-direction "undefined"). Zayn, like [male pop stars with a teen past](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw04QD1LaB0 "undefined"), is in that phase where he wants you to know that he has (loud, neighbor-waking) sex and uses the F-word. But if the rest of the album delivers on the promise of this first taste, we won’t be talking about his 1D ties for much longer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4199569/zayn-malik-pillowtalk-video-gigi-hadid/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4199569/zayn-malik-pillowtalk-video-gigi-hadid/"},"headline":"Watch Zayn Malik's Steamy Video for Solo Debut 'Pillowtalk'","datePublished":"2016-01-29T13:54:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:34:03.326Z","description":"The former One Direction star gets cozy with Gigi Hadid","url":"https://time.com/4199569/zayn-malik-pillowtalk-video-gigi-hadid/","keywords":["Music","Zayn Malik"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4199569/zayn-malik-pillowtalk-video-gigi-hadid/","name":"Watch Zayn Malik's Steamy Video for Solo Debut 'Pillowtalk'"}}]}] ```