Zayn Malik Lets the Tears Flow While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

it's it's slowly taking me over I'm

going to be honest I'm trying to keep it

together but that one is really

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hot hey what's going on everybody for

first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're

watching hot ones it's the show with hot

questions and even hotter wings and

today we're joined by Zayn Malik he's a

singer songwriter whose new single what

I am releases tomorrow leading to a lot

of speculation and excitement around his

highly anticipated fourth studio album

and he's here today which leads me to

believe that it's coming soon zann

welcome to the show thank you very much

thank you for having me how are you

around spicy food I know that you grew

up eating fresh chilies as a kid not

particularly chilies but uh ate a lot of

obviously Indian food growing up um so

I've got a a pretty high tolerance I

think but we'll we'll let today be the

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tester

okay this side

yeah

minus that one seems pretty

easy it's actually quite thirsty that

one it's got a little bit of warmth to

it so when we had Dave Gro on the show

he talked about how he believes music is

shaped by its physical surroundings how

if at all has your retreat to a more

quiet and simple life on a farm in

Pennsylvania shaped your sound um that's

actually a really interesting way to put

it um I never thought about it like that

um I think life uh in general just you

know can influence your writing process

you know you have to live go through

things to have something to talk about

so yeah it definitely has took on the

surrounding area of Pennsylvania you

know it's got that feel it's got the

chill like um introspective kind of

conscious thing going on um and yeah I'm

really excited for people to listen to

it because it's really different

anything I've ever done before it's

super personal um and

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real okay smokey

jet yeah no it's tasty it's a good

chicken wiip there we go so I'm always

intrigued by songwriters who use poetry

as an entry point to crafting lyrics

what impact does comp posing that way

have on the final product there's

different ways that you can start a song

you could start with a Melody idea some

you know a basic um line from an

instrument some keys maybe a little bit

from a guitar maybe even just a drum

beat and then write fitting in that

pocket or you can have something

completely like just written as a piece

of poetry like you said and then try to

figure out how you're going to make that

work musically and fit that in and base

the music around the the senent or the

lyric or you know the feeling behind the

song um so yeah it just really depends I

think they both impact each other I

think it's definitely a good skill to

have um to be able to write poetry um

just so that you have a sensibility of

beginning middle end you know telling

the story get your point across and

don't B people too much with what you're

trying to say um so yeah I think they're

both tyeing to each other um uh ideally

you know I think you need one to do the

other and one to do the

other

can definitely taste a chili on that one

straight away mhm still not too bad it's

actually a tasty chicken when got to eat

this you know I think this might be my

favorite sauce in the lineup yeah I

think this one's nice got nice flavor to

yeah it does but a little heat a little

bit of bit

Yeah so as we mentioned years ago you

moved to Pennsylvania to seek a life of

Simplicity in what ways do you find

gardening most rewarding and what would

you say has so far been your greatest

gardening achievement um my biggest

achievement sorry uh growing stuff is

probably uh a couple of years ago we

grew like some of the the biggest

watermelons I've ever seen they were

like huge like 40 lb watermelon wow um

yeah and I was showing to my uh friend's

parents and they were growing them at

the same time and theirs were like this

big and then I sent a picture back of

mine they were like I don't know what

the [ __ ] we're doing wrong with ours but

there's a massive watermelon so yeah

that's probably my proudest uh moment

whilst I've been uh I've been trying to

be a gardener yeah what do you think

makes you such an elite watermelon

grower like do you think it's the soil

so I don't even think I had anything to

do with it but I'll take credit you know

I think the soil is just great uh the

weather's ideal the and the uh the

rain's really good it's really humid out

there in the summer you get a lot of um

like uh humidity so I think that's like

ideal for him do you have a favorite

plant a favorite plant yes I do have a

favorite plant but I don't know if

that's appropriate for for um yeah uh I

I love growing chili plants though oh

you're growing chilies yeah I do grow

chilies how's that been going I've been

growing a lot of scotch Bonnets and uh a

lot of Carolina Reapers what um yeah

Carolina Reapers a lot of them they grow

really well too like they're growing

like a bush um I got a really big yield

uh last year have you ever eaten one I

haven't no I seen you eat the pepper the

pepper yeah I watched that video Yeah

seen you eat it that's some serious uh

serious balls going on there it's it's

it's a it's a it's a whole thing eating

a eating a chili pepper even as opposed

to trying the hot sauce no it's very

extreme but you know what if you need

some uh pointers some tips as you go

along in your pepper growing Journey you

know I have some connects that I can uh

that I can bring to the table you know I

I'll pass you a

smoke called the pock pocket book oh my

God yeah I like that name I was like

that's really funny

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name f that sh mhm

yep definitely got

kicked um what chili pepper is that in

that one do you know what it is got some

sanos one yeah yeah yeah okay kicking a

little bit for me too same wavelength

over here that's good to

know what would you say are the greatest

lengths you've ever gone to to find

inspiration I think what I found is when

you try to find inspiration you can't

squeeze it from The Rock it's not it's

not going to come yeah think you kind of

just have to let it come to you by

itself um and you know live a little

have some life experiences go through

some things so that when you actually

are talking about something it's a

genuine feeling from you it's not

something that's made up you know all

right how we doing after four wings I'm

good yeah I'm good so

far well that's good news because we are

now officially approaching the halfway

point okay this next Wing right here is

called queso sin queso okay interesting

color yeah very interesting color

okay here we

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go excuse me but

there that's that's some Ser SAU yeah do

you have a Zayn's kitchen signature dish

and if so can you tell us how to make it

in as much detail as possible um

signature dish uh I guess that's the the

thing I cook the most so I actually cook

uh this thing called uh dundi chicken

quite a lot which is like a red chicken

in in spice and uh you can do it you

know different ways you can serve it

however you want on a kebab or in a

chicken wrap or whatever but if I was to

make a meal yeah I would probably be

spaghetti

ballets spaghetti minc meat a whole the

concoction of beautiful things going

there tomato garlic you can use carrot

sometimes cuz the carrot counteracts the

acidity of the tomato and gives it like

a Umami flavor and I'm getting pretty

good at sneaking vegetables in there for

my daughter because she's not about

vegetables at all

so everything yeah um and it tastes

really good yeah um so maybe I can cook

you some spaghetti balles at some point

that would be nice I would absolutely

make it real spicy for

you that one's good I like that one so

back in 2021 You released Calamity a

comic book inspired by your album nobody

is listening was there something about

the music on that album that you felt

lent itself to that kind of animated

storytelling or is a comic book

obsessive did you kind of just want to

make a comic uh excuse me I've got

chicken in my tooth you know what no

problem I think we have we've got

toothpicks we've got some toothpicks we

got some got out anywhere it's fine get

off um yeah so it was just the the love

that I have for comic books that's why I

used that is there any sort of backstory

if you're willing to share about the

Early Edition Iron Man comic that you

have that's signed to zann from Stan Lee

yeah um so when we did the uh uh One

Direction movie um Morgan Spurlock he

filmed a lot of the behind the scenes

stuff that was used for the film and he

directed it um and he became pretty

close to us um so at the end of the

filming process he brought us all the

present um and he brought me uh signed

uh I am on comic start uh Stanley signed

iron on comic which is a real you know

um amazing thing that I still have my

wall um and yeah just an amazing thing

to tell your geeky nerdy friends who

love comic books you know they they

definitely want that comic book from me

um none of them will have it at any

point While I'm Alive so um they'll have

to wait a while um but yeah uh that was

really cool and I remember the boys

being super like pissed off about it too

because they didn't get as good gifts

and he gave me this side Stanley comic I

was like this is [ __ ]

sick um but yeah I I love that uh that

comic book it's interested that you that

you know about that yours a we have to

know we have to know

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research oh

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okay okay mhm that's very

fruity and it has kind of like a fresh

Apple taste taste up front almost but

then you catch the the violence on the

back end you know that's why I took one

bite and I was like I'll let's let's see

how that settles first before I have

another one cuz I could just tell just

from the first like Fruity flavor that

that's going to be real spicy you've

been there

before what's the worst technical

difficulty or equipment malfunction

you've ever experienced while performing

on stage like have you ever been burned

by pyro or had to endure a prolonged

power outage I've never actually been

burnt by Pyro one time there's footage

of it and it's uh actually amazing cuz

it makes me look great uh but on stage

uh Harry was right next to a pyro and

the Pyro was about to go off cuz they

were on timers and he had a towel over

his head and he had his head over the

Pyro and he didn't see that the Pyro was

there so I just kind of like you see me

like run from one side of the stage and

push him out of the way and the Pyro

kind of like explodes in in front of his

face that was really dangerous um in

terms of uh tech tech technological um

like uh difficulties the whole like rig

would just go off sometimes like in our

early gigs like we would have a power

outage and there was no microphones so

we would just put our microphones down

and we would just uh burst into fresh

prince of Bella a uh acella um just do

the whole performance of that until the

the the microphones were working again

um and that was the thing that we had

like just in our back pocket always like

if the microphone goes you know we still

got that as if it was some amazing

performance but you know I hope it

entertained

people yeah funny

times I'll go for a big bite respect to

me

too

W

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okay no

up right this one never gets easier for

me but uh in sort of your expression you

are uh composed in the in the face of

this fire I do have to say Zane yeah

it's it's slowly taking me over I'm

going to be honest I'm trying to keep it

together but that one is really hard

yeah I know well you can let it go cuz

I'm just going to kind of Let It Go all

right yeah from here forward you're

going to see a different Sean from

across the table okay Z all right you

might see a tear drop and just let one

go nice and

dramatically do you bu your own music

you know I'm always curious an artist

relationship with their work once it's

out in the world uh yeah it depends um

on the occasion you know um I don't like

to just bump my music to to people as

they come over you have to listen to my

music uh but if if I'm having

like um a moment to myself where I'm

listening to things yeah I listen to my

own music quite a lot yeah what's your

most uh treasured memory as a loyal

Bradford City D FC fan going to a game

with my granddad when I was real young

and we used to have this amazing player

that used to play for brafford city as

kind of like a charity thing basically

he uh was too expensive for the club but

if they paid him his wages for the last

um season they would have gone bankrupt

as a club so he did it for free because

he loved the club so much and that's

probably one of the coolest things uh

like memory-wise for for braford City I

think yeah do you still collect uh

samurai swords uh I

uh so should I say this uh I have some

samurai swords yeah I don't collect them

but I have I have like three yeah is

there one that has uh the most

sentimental value um yeah um my one of

my best friends just got me one recently

um and it's really cool it's like a a

tempered like blue steel blade um and

that one looks really cool yeah excuse

me that's it's all right speaking of

sharp pains you know how are we feeling

on the other side of D bomb here I feel

good yeah it was like a whole experience

I think I've come through the other side

of it now but yeah my eye definitely

wouldn't start watering so it's all

right you're just you know reflecting on

the club you know going to Games with

Grandpa you

know out of your eyes

yeah and the good news is Zane that

there only two more Wings to go okay

this next one they get hotter than this

only one way to find

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out it still got burned to it it's still

definitely burning my lips uh but I know

what you're saying yeah it's not as

intense as the other one the other one's

a bit smokier too right yeah bit more

intense flavor what video game do you

most associate with your youth in West

Yorkshire like I'm kind of curious if

titles hit the same way on either side

of the pond has to be Pokemon right

respect yeah um just remember playing

that game for Alex on the game but just

obsessed with it and and they've always

like kept up to date with that kind of

stuff too like every year they bring out

a new Pokemon game and it's the IP

doesn't fall off no not at all they they

just they hit hard every time a little

bit like this chicken wi um they know

what they're doing for

sure all right Zan they have to put some

sauce on this one

yeah okay this one here yeah

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yeah got the nose running and

everything there we go there we

go okay get it on

there okay cheers in the

cheers and my mic P fell out

that's all right you know we made it to

the Finish Line if we lose a mic pack we

lose a mic pack you know what I mean no

just a couple guys taking down the Wings

Over long as we don't lose no test

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buds now again no fun what you're eating

right now a concoction from the Twisted

Brain of smoking Ed Curry all right not

to scare you away from ever going back

to sucker butt excuse

me Zane I know that you don't do many

interviews we're very appreciative to

have you here today and I have a feeling

that you wouldn't be here unless you had

something very important to share so my

last question to you is kind of simple

with your brain and mouth on fire what

is it you can tell us about the new

album

um the new album is just a very

different sound um to anything that I've

ever put out before it's just really raw

um and honest and I hope people get that

when they listen to it um I hope they

get some insight into you know how I'm

feeling and the things I've been going

through over the last six seven years

while I've been writing this record um

and that's the most important thing for

me I think I just want people to really

feel like they get a connection with

with the record do you have the name uh

I do yeah it's called room under the

stats cuz I recorded most of it in in a

tiny little like shoe cabinet in my

house um so I felt like it was fitting

to to name it after that room so that

people can get you know even more

sentiment into what the whole idea

behind it was well you know what you

heard it here first and look at you Zane

taking on the wings of death living to

tell the tale and now there's nothing

left to do no milk but roll out the red

carpet for you zero milk no milk all the

way through this camera this camera this

camera let the people know what you have

going on in your life uh right now um my

mouth is burning it's on fire um very

excited to be on hot ones um so thank

you for having me um I've got my album

coming out um and a new single coming

out so um go check that out if uh if you

want to you're not forced into doing

that but uh if you're interested please

go check it out yeah tell me what you

think thank you very much that was

amazing one of the best interviews I've

ever

done does anybody have another wing

don't we think it that one we got to get

into the sauce business together right

Zan therefore let's make a sauce

together let's yeah let's do it this

one's smoked so all of the peppers were

smoked first and there's smoked

pineapple in there too oh I like that

you know sometimes we do that with like

a little fruit you know like a little

sweet little heat you know yeah it's

nice balances it out a

bit M smoke immediately

yeah

hot and I'm not just saying this this is

actually Elite this is amazing well you

like the taste yeah yeah and it has sort

of uh you know you're talking about how

you like American barbecue you know it

has like a little bit of of that like a

sweet like Kansas City Barbecue the

smoke uh the smokiness brings out the

flavor I think but there's a lot of

different seasonings in there too

there's garlic and all kinds of stuff to

like make it taste good onion salt and

stuff like

you know what though the key ingredient

in this one love oh

yeah I'm glad you feel well thank you

for trying yeah of course buddy thanks

so much for coming in thank you this is

awesome man you got like a natural

Talent thank you I like

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