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Director X on Zayn's new video: 'There's a dancer inside of him somewhere'

Director X has opened up about working on Zayn Malik's newly unveiled music video for 'Like I Would'. 

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, Director X explained that he brought his prior experience to the ideas stage and they ran from there:

"I've done a bunch of laser-themed music videos before. I did Usher's "Yeah!" and I've been wanting to redo that video for a long time."

"I've got, what, 10 years of thinking about what I could have done differently? Something like that. So I brought in all that old experience and the Cyclone, and we started building it from there. Then the team started getting involved. 

"Like, "Hey, what if we did clothes that light up?" We held on to the some of the dancing idea from the original treatment and just all that mixed together."

He also referred to Malik's dancing ability and added that he will probably embrace his skills in a few years: "I think there is a dancer inside of him. If you look at his performance, you begin to see it. I don't know how much he embraces it, but as someone who works with dancers and can see potential, I think in a few years, you're going to be seeing quite an active Zayn onstage. He's coming out of his shell."

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Watch the music video for 'Like I Would' below:

 

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