Former One Direction member Zayn Malik slammed his previous boy group and said that their music is not the kind of music he wants to listen to.

The 22-year-old has recently opened up to The Fader about the real reason why he had to leave one of the most popular boy bands in the world. While the group has been in their prime years when Malik left last March, he said that it was something that he had been thinking about "from the very beginning."

He admitted that the music he used to make with fellow members, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles, isn't the thing that he really listens to. And now that he has departed from the boy group, he said that he want to make music that is "cool" enough for him.

"Would you listen to One Direction, sat at a party with your girl? I wouldn't. To me, that's not an insult, that's me as a 22-year-old man. As much as I was in that band, and I loved everything that we did, that's not music that I would listen to," the singer candidly said.

The singer also furthered about his experiences while he was still with the group. While their previous albums have been well-received in terms of sales and tours, he admitted that he never really enjoyed doing the tracks because there was no room for him "to experiment creatively in the band."

"If I would sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would always be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, generic as f-, so they could use that version," he said.

Being in a group of five felt like a tussle as well for the "I Won't Mind" singer. He said that whenever he would come up with something, it is always expected that it would not fit to everyone's liking.

"There was just a general conception that the management already had of what they want for the band, and I just wasn't convinced with what we were selling. I wasn't 100 percent behind the music," he said. "It wasn't me."

Malik's tell-all came a week after the boys released their new album, "Made in the A.M." The new album is the group's fifth, and possibly the last since they announced that they will be taking a break in 2016.

But while this has been the first album without Malik, a review by Daily Emerald stated that the album still pleases even without the former member. Currently, the album is making its way to the top although Justin Bieber's "Purpose" album is seen to be a close competitor.