And talk he is: according to The Telegraph - which called Pillowtalk "an x-rated ode to Gigi Hadid" - Malik wrote the song himself, and the lyrics are pretty thinly veiled when it comes to meanings. It has to be talked about," Malik told The Sunday Times recently when speaking of his upcoming solo. It's part of everybody's life, a very big part of life! And you don't wanna sweep it under the carpet.
" Everybody has sex, and it's something people wanna hear about. But if you ignore the video itself, what do the lyrics of "Pillowtalk" mean? What I'm getting from it is that Malik's into talking about sex.
Basically, the video is one big reminder that Malik has torn away from his boy band pop days and gone in an entirely new, less-PG direction. The video for "Pillowtalk" features his girlfriend - ahem, sorry, "good friend" - model Gigi Hadid, along with a second girl (with daggers shooting out of her face), bloody tears, and plenty of sexy innuendos. Previous One Direction star Zayn Malik released his first single at midnight on Thursday, and it's definitely a departure from the sugarcoated One Direction songs he used to be a part of.