Directioners Think ZAYN's New Song Is About His Breakup With One Direction
By Paris Close
December 6, 2018
ZAYN's new song seems to confront his fractured friendships within One Direction.
The 25-year-old dropped a new track called "Good Years" Thursday morning (December 6) — and Directioners believe the lyrics are about his broken brotherhood with former bandmates Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan.
ZAYN opens the piano confessional with lyrics alluding to a somber place, "I'd rather be anywhere/ Anywhere but here," he belts in the chorus, praying "I didn't waste all my good years," likely during his time in the band.
More lyrics suggest the boys quarreled behind the scenes and appear to hint at Zayn's overall unhappiness during his tenure with the group, as multiple fans pointed out on Twitter.
Listen to "Good Years" and see what fans are saying about it on social media, below.
good (depressed) morning to zayn releasing good years and ripping my ot5 heart out only pic.twitter.com/qk6T6JnfQ0
— eleni👄 (@holylarents) December 6, 2018
listening to good years and thinking of the camping scene in this is us where zayn asked the boys if they think they'll be friends forever bc of what they've been through together.. yeah i'm heartbroken
— eleni👄 (@holylarents) December 6, 2018
good years is about zayn wanting to leave 1d don’t mind me while I go cry in corner pic.twitter.com/gGWdThjkdz
— veerle ◟̽◞̽ (@AesthxticStyles) December 6, 2018
I think what hurts the most about good years is that zayn was honest about the fighting and what happened behind closed doors, sometimes we wanna ignore that the boys did have arguments with each other and that it wasn’t always this amazing life
— tal. (@kissylouwt) December 6, 2018
Albeit speculative, the Directioners' theory isn't so uncanny. After all, Z said it himself that he made no friends when he disbanded from 1D in March 2015.
Last month, when asked by British Vogue whether he's kept in touch with the boys, he replied, "Nah. I ain't spoke to any of them for a long time, to be honest with you. That's just the way it is. There's things that happen and things that were said after I left... Snide things. … Small things that I would never have expected."
What's more, though, is some fans thought Tomlinson shaded the "Rainberry" star over his new song, per a recent tweet he posted hours after it dropped which read, "Proper confused. What a hypocrite!" Though, it's just as likely the tweet was taken out of context, as the "Back to You" crooner could have been referring to X Factor contestant Armstrong Martins thanking every judge on the show besides him on Instagram. (Who knows? You decide!)
Even so, ZAYN seems to have found peace with the situation on his long-awaited second studio album, Icarus Falls, due out December 14.
Photo: Getty Images