“There was never any room for me to experiment creatively in the band,” he told The Fader late last year, in a candid cover story. 1 hit with the sultry R&B song “Pillowtalk.” He’s taken some space from his bandmates, and gradually begun to voice gently pointed criticisms of One Direction’s music. On Maa day that for millions of teenage girls lives in infamy - he issued a statement: “I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight.” But Zayn’s year away from 1D hasn’t exactly been the stuff of “normal 22-year-old” life: He graced the cover of magazines, started dating a very famous supermodel, and, last month, scored his first solo No. He’s just there to sing.įive years, four albums, and countless worldwide trending topics later, Zayn was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the first to jump ship.
“Uh, my name’s Zayn,” he mumbles, even then seeming like the one who’s the least comfortable with all the televised pageantry.
Then, finally, a shy, slump-shouldered kid shuffles up to the stage. Louis Tomlinson impresses with his angelic, unthreatening falsetto, and Niall Horan warbles his way through a pitchy rendition of Ne-Yo’s “So Sick,” only making it through to the next round because guest judge Katy Perry takes pity on him. Sixteen-year-old Harry Styles, already with the beyond-his-years panache to pull off a skinny, Jagger-esque scarf, exudes a natural, effortless charisma with an a cappella rendition of “Isn’t She Lovely.” Previous season reject Liam Payne has to try a little harder to wow the judges with a hammy Michael Bublé song, but he sticks the landing. It’s an amusing little pop time capsule: Back in 2010, each of the five then-teens tried out for the show as solo artists (after they were all cut, judge Simon Cowell had the bright, lucrative idea to put them all together as a group and reenter them into the competition as One Direction), so these audition videos are the clearest way to see their individual personalities as potential solo stars.
If you’ve got about 13 minutes to spare, there are, actually, more shameful ways to spend them than watching this YouTube clip of One Direction’s original X Factor auditions.
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