"I wouldn’t be able to give you one standout moment where I was like this is what I want to do because I guess I just always kinda knew. It is just all my perspective and that’s fully liberating," he told The Fader. "It’s a nice feeling to come out of a place where you are being told what to do and to be upset because of certain expectations are set and things that people want to see. Zayn’s feeling VERY liberated on this new record… and he’s had this album in his head for YEARS!
Just like a lot of RnB and a lot of rap." “Then as I got older I just started listening to a lot of my dad’s old records like nineties stuff. "You know I used to listen to a lot of Bollywood being a kid and stuff so yeah that definitely influenced the music a little bit,” he explained to The Fader. Zayn’s been influenced by EVERYTHING - from Bollywood to rap and RnB! “It was just something that we wanted to do because we wanted to make it quite real and genuine.” “It’s quite a personal album and we recorded a lot of it actually out in the woods and stuff like this which is quite weird. “Life experiences have just been influences for the album and just stuff that I’ve been through, especially in the last five years and being in the band and everything,” Zayn revealed to The Fader. Prepare for something VERY personal… recorded out in the woods! The video features Zayn's solo offering playing in the background and sounds pretty damned awesome. We've got this AMAZING snippet of a new Zayn song called 'Befour'. The music reflects that as well because they’re different emotions, so you feel different things through each song. There’s some R&B more inflected, and others that are like reggae-sounding,” Zayn revealed to the Daily Star. Look for a VERY different sound on the album - from R&B to reggae! and it gave us our first proper taste of the sound Zayn's going for! Zayn dropped the track as a HUGE surprise and went on to land at No.1 just two days after the song's release.