Simon Cowell blasts Zayn Malik for bashing 'One Direction's' music

One Direction's former mentor Simon Cowell is not too happy with how bandmember Zayn Malik spoke about the band and called the musician "rude". Malik explained his decision to quit 1D, saying that he had never been given any creative freedom to make music he enjoyed, reported Daily Mirror.

"I think once he has had a chance to reflect on everything he will probably reconsider what he's said because it was a very, very democratic process in the band," Cowell said. "It is a bit rude to the people who wrote all the hits with them. And to the other band members. I mean they all wrote a lot of the stuff." 

Zayn Malik was quoted saying: "There was never any room for me to experiment creatively in the band,” he told the title for its December/January issue. “If I would sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would always be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, generic as f***, so they could use that version. Whenever I would suggest something, it was like it didn’t fit us. There was just a general conception that the management already had of what they want for the band, and I just wasn’t convinced with what we were selling. I wasn’t 100 percent behind the music. It wasn’t me. It was music that was already given to us, and we were told this is what is going to sell to these people. As much as we were the biggest, most famous boy band in the world, it felt weird. We were told to be happy about something that we weren’t happy about.”