Liam Payne gets up close and personal with Buzzfeed, answering a series of questions about his new album and a One Direction reunion  … all while playing with a bunch of puppies!

 

Liam goes into detail with what can be expected from his upcoming solo debut.  He reveals that “an exciting female artist might be featured”, he says that his album will include an ‘eclectic mix of sounds’ and he explains his writing process.

 

Liam says, “There are sections of the album that are quite like “Strip That Down,” but there’s parts of it that are — there’s some ballads, there’s some hip-hop songs, there’s some more dance music. So I think there’s a really varied mix of different things that we have.”

 

He also added that if he were to collaborate with a 1D bandmate on new music, it would probably be with Zayn: “I think I would collaborate best with Zayn because we do really similar types of music. And I would like our music video to be right here with these puppies, because this is too much fun right now.”

 

 

 

And when asked about the writing process and if it’s any different being solo than part of a group, he says, “The songwriting process has been a lot different because you have to look a lot inside yourself for inspiration. It was different when I was writing with the boys because, you know, you have to have four people to please. So in a way it’s kind of easier as well, but it’s hard because, I don’t know, it’s very, very — it just relies on you. Which is nice, and there’s some really personal songs that I’ve done on the album, and there’s some that are done by other writers. ‘Cause there are obviously a lot of great writers in the world, and I got to work with some great people like Pharrell and Ryan Tedder, [and] obviously Zedd at the moment, which has been great. So I’ve been really lucky with the people I’ve gotten to work with.”

 

Lastly … the question that MANY One Direction fans have been dying to know … if there’s a reunion in the future: “I think we will reunite at some point in the future. We have to — I mean we’ve got an album we haven’t even toured yet, and I want to write some more songs as well with the boys.”

 

 

 

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