Zayn Malik Shares New Glimpse at Single "Love Like This"

Zayn Malik shared Sunday on Instagram a new glimpse at his highly anticipated new single “Love Like This”, his first release on Mercury Records.

After teasing the comeback track for a week on social media, the 30-year-old pop star revealed last week on the platform that his new era begins on July 21.

The post included a clip of him shirtless and spray-painting the song’s title and release date onto a wall. Prior to that, he’d dropped other short videos featuring snippets of the track.

“Love Like This” plays in the background throughout the clip, revealing more of the song’s loved-up lyrics. “I guess there’s love like this/ Usually I never wanna jump like this,” Malik sings on the track. “I guess there’s faith like this/ Give you everything and you can skate like this/ But I think I gotta take that risk ’cause I can not go back/ And I’m loving what you say, what you say, what you say when you’re on my line.”

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The single will mark the former One Direction star’s first solo release since his 2021 album "Nobody Is Listening", which preceded a collaboration with Ingrid Michaelson (“To Begin Again”) and a cover of the late Jimi Hendrix’s “Angel.”

It is also his first release since departing from former label RCA Records, having signed with Mercury in June. Going forward, Malik’s music will sound notably different from his previous career-defining hits like “Pillowtalk” and his Taylor Swift collaboration “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever,” sources have told Billboard.

Leading up to the “Love Like This” announcement, the musician had steadily been dropping teaser videos with revealing snippets of the track, including lyrics like “Your direction is on my mind.” In one video, Malik’s former bandmate Liam Payne commented: “This sounds big already.”