{"id":41828,"date":"2025-11-24T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/blackpink-collaboration-made-me-cool-again\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:09:29","slug":"blackpink-collaboration-made-me-cool-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/blackpink-collaboration-made-me-cool-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpink collaboration made me ‘cool again’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Zayn Malik shares a daughter with his former partner, US model Gigi Hadid<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Zayn Malik has said he jumped at the chance to collaborate on a song with Blackpink’s Jisoo as his daughter is a <\/b>“massive fan”.<\/p>\n

The former One Direction star, 32, released the track Eyes Closed alongside the South Korean pop star last month. <\/p>\n

While hosting his first BBC Radio 1 show, Zayn said that when Jisoo approached him about doing a feature he thought: “My daughter’s gonna think I’m cool again so I’ll definitely do that.”<\/p>\n

The singer shares five-year-old Khai with his former partner, US model Gigi Hadid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It ‘was an honour’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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It is not the first time Zayn has shared his love for the K-pop band. <\/p>\n

Over the summer, he posted a photo to his Instagram story of him holding his daughter in his arms while they attended a Blackpink concert, and wrote on the post “Me & Khai loved it”.<\/p>\n

During his two-hour Radio 1 special, Zayn said he was keen to work with Jisoo as she is “killing it at the minute”.<\/p>\n

“I’ve wavered a little bit from the pop sound myself, so to come back to it with the people who are basically owning that genre at the minute was an honour,” he said. <\/p>\n

“If I can say thanks to Jisoo, I’m really happy with the way it turned out.”<\/p>\n

Blackpink \u2013 comprised of members Jisoo, Jennie, Ros\u00e9 and Lisa \u2013 are one of the biggest K-pop girl bands in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zayn Malik rose to stardom alongside his fellow One Direction band members – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Alongside playing a few of his own songs during his radio special, Zayn shouted out some of his favourite artists including US rappers Lauryn Hill and Eminem.<\/p>\n

The Bradford-born singer also revealed his father was a “massive” fan of Biggie Smalls and he would blast songs by the US rapper loudly so the whole street could hear. <\/p>\n

“Rap music was a big influence in my younger years and that was definitely made more prominent by the fact that I was living in Bradford, for sure,” he said. <\/p>\n

The singer’s music career began in 2010 as part of One Direction, the boy band formed on TV talent contest, The X Factor. <\/p>\n

He rose to stardom alongside the other band members – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne.<\/p>\n

Liam died in October 2024 <\/a>after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.<\/p>\n

Zayn left the group in 2015 to go solo and released his debut album, Mind of Mine, in 2016, which topped the charts. <\/p>\n

The singer went on to release three more albums. The latest, Room Under The Stairs, peaked at number three in the charts last year. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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