2016Released
3:23

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Interesting facts and trivia about PILLOWTALK. By Songfacts®.

Zayn Malik's debut single following his departure from One Direction is a downtempo electronic R&B song containing adult imagery and plenty of F-bombs. It represents a break from the pop tunes he previously sung as a boyband member. Malik co-wrote the song with Anthony Hannides and Michael Hannides of MYKL and Levi Lennox, who also produced the track.

Sex was clearly on Malik's mind when penning the track. He told The Sunday Times: "(The song is) pretty black and white. Everybody has sex, and it's something people want to hear about. It's part of everybody's life, a very big part of life! And you don't want to sweep it under the carpet. It has to be talked about."

The song's steamy music video was directed by Bouha Kazmi and finds Malik navigating a sexual fantasy. It features his rumoured girlfriend, the model Gigi Hadid, who also showed up in Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" and Calvin Harris' "How Deep Is Your Love" clips. Zayn revealed the inspiration for the clip during a radio interview with L.A. radio show, Zach Sang and the Gang. "Mostly my idea," he said. "I wanted it to be representational of the art that I'm looking at the minute, even just a perspective level, on the surface of it I wanted it be arty, and different and out-there. That was the whole feel for the video, We wanted a dream-feel to it."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of PILLOWTALK.
BKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
125BPM

Album

The album PILLOWTALK is released on.
PILLOWTALKZAYN
2016Single

Released By

The record label that has released PILLOWTALK.
RCA Records Label
(P) 2016 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

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