{"id":81853,"date":"2025-10-16T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81853\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:17:08","slug":"zayn-malik-says-his-duet-with-k-pop-star-jisoo-has-made-him-the-coolest-dad-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81853\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayn Malik says his duet with K-pop star Jisoo has made him the &#8216;coolest dad around&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The K-pop idol, 30, had fans speculating that Eyes Closed was a duet with Malik when she shared a promo picture for the song featuring the silhouette of the mystery singer.<\/p>\n<p>Jisoo simply captioned the image: &#8220;A duet is near.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malik had also recently teased that he had a song with a &#8220;cool collaborator&#8221; on the way. During a livestream, he said: \u201cI\u2019ve got some new music coming out soon with another\u00a0cool collaborator. That is coming out first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got some big things lined up. I think next year is going to be a big year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jisoo then shared a similar image with the back of Malik up close and in focus with his head tattoo giving away who it was.<\/p>\n<p>She captioned the post: &#8220;Two voices, one orbit. Coming soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eyes Closed marked Jisoo&#8217;s first new music since her debut mini-album, February&#8217;s Amortage.<\/p>\n<p>As for Malik, the 32-year-old singer revealed his new album has Indian influences.<\/p>\n<p>The Pillowtalk star promised that his fifth studio record is coming next year and suggested that it will be similar to his 2016 chart-topping solo debut Mind Of Mine.<\/p>\n<p>Malik was quoted by The Sun newspaper&#8217;s Bizarre column as saying during the livestream: &#8220;The next album is soon. I have been working on some cool s*** in South Asian music and bringing those influences into my music as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is like pop, R+B, and a lot of Indian influences. The record is like a continuation of Mind Of Mine in that sense. I might have some songs coming out in Urdu, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The K-pop idol, 30, had fans speculating that Eyes Closed was a duet with Malik when she shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3623,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-81853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}