Zayn Malik appears to confront the racism he faced while a member of One Direction in a teaser for a new song, ostensibly titled âFuchsia Sea.â
Malik shared a snippet of the song on Instagram over the weekend, promising the full track would be âcoming soon.â Following the mix of soft rock, soul, and country on his 2024 album, Room Under the Stairs, the âFuchsia Seaâ clip finds Zayn pivoting to pensive hip-hop, as he rhymes casually over a punchy piano beat. (Itâs worth noting that Room Under the Stairs also featured a song called âFuchsia Sea.â)
While Zayn covers a lot of ground in the clip that he shared, the line that jumps out most comes near the end of the first verse, and seems to be a very specific nod to his time in One Direction. âIâm a convert to the concert/And I did that for inflation/âCause I worked hard in a white band/And they still laughed at the Asian,â he says.
The son of a Pakistani Muslim father and an English mother of Irish descent, Zayn has spoken before about facing racism and bigotry, especially when he was growing up in Bradford, England. While in One Direction, he occasionally spoke about being the target of online harassment, like in a 2012 interview when he said, âNasty things [were said] like Iâm a terrorist, and this and that. How can you justify that? How can you call me that and get away with it?â
Zayn has yet to share any additional details about âFuchsia Sea,â like when the full song will be release, or whether itâs a one-off track or the first offering from his next project.Â
Earlier this year, Zayn completed his Stairway to the Sky Tour in support of Room Under the Stairs. At his final two shows in Mexico City, Zayn performed One Directionâs âNight Changesâ for the first time in 10 years. The performances happened to coincide with the anniversary of his departure of the group, and also poignantly came several months after the death of his former bandmate, Liam Payne.
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