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Zayn Malik Prevented From Filming ‘Freedun’ Music Video With M.I.A As It Was Too "Dangerous"

It was too “dangerous” for the former One Direction member to film in India, said M.I.A.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 - 10:25
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Been sitting eyes wide open
Behind these four walls, hoping you'd call
It's just a cruel existence like it's no point hoping at all

Baby, baby, I feel crazy
Up all night, all night and every day
Give me something, oh, but you say nothing
What is happening to me?

I don't wanna live forever, 'cause I know I'll be living in vain
And I don't wanna fit wherever
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home

I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home

I'm sitting eyes wide open and I got one thing stuck in my mind
Wondering if I dodged a bullet or just lost the love of my life

Baby, baby, I feel crazy
Up all night, all night and every day
I gave you something, but you gave me nothing
What is happening to me?

I don't wanna live forever, 'cause I know I'll be living in vain
And I don't wanna fit (fit, babe) wherever (wherever)
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home

I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home

I've been looking sad in all the nicest places
Baby, baby, I feel crazy
I see you around in all these empty faces
Up all night, all night and every day

I've been looking sad in all the nicest places
Give me something, oh, but you say nothing
Now I'm in a cab, I tell 'em where your place is
What is happening to me?

I don't wanna live forever, 'cause I know I'll be living in vain
And I don't wanna fit wherever
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home
I just wanna keep calling your name

Until you come back home
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home
I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home

I just wanna keep calling your name
Until you come back home
Until you come back home
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The music video for ‘Freedun’ wasn’t made with Zayn Malik because it was too “dangerous” for the former One Direction member to film in India, said M.I.A.

‘Freedun’, a track made over Whatsapp by the pair, came out September 2 2016.

M.I.A had said on Radio 1 that she'd been filming the video for ‘Freedun’ in the Himalayas last summer, but now we know why Zayn Malik, who featured prominently on the track’s uplifting chorus, didn’t take part.

Speaking to VEVO, M.I.A said: "It's just really hard as he's in America and I can't get in, he's not getting out, and I'm not going to make a video about Skype conversations cut together."

M.I.A then added further details in a separate interview with OK! Magazine: "I never finished 'Freedun.' But I shot for 4 days," M.I.A. said.

"It was dangerous to have Zayn come to Kashmir [because] he's half-Pakistani and I couldn't get a visa to the US at the time. There was so much bureaucracy."

Tensions have been running high between India and Pakistan, with the two nations locked in a dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir since gaining independence from Britain in 1947. The deadliest militant raid in years took place in the region in September 2016, with 17 soldiers being killed.

Meanwhile, M.I.A decided against selling her own merchandise, and has released designs that fans can use to make their own clothing. Find out more here.

And in other news, Zayn Malik and Taylor Swift both released acoustic covers of their track ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’. For more, click here.

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