Published 15:49 IST, July 21st 2020
Zayn Malik's fans call song on him 'Islamophobic', 'racist'; urge Spotify take it down
Fans of Zayn Malik demanded music streaming platform Spotify to remove an allegedly islamophobic song that was targetting the singer. Read on to know more.
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Fans of popular singer Zayn Malik took to social media and demanded Spotify, a music streaming platform, remove a song. song reportedly portrayed Zayn Malik as responsible for terror attacks in past and fans of singer raised ir voice against song. adopted hashtag asking song to be taken down for Zayn (#removeItForZayn).
Fans urge Spotify to remove Islamophobic song aimed at Zayn Malik
It so happened that in year 2017, a parody artist Una Kompton had recorded a track Zayn Did 9/11. Kompton is kwn as an online troll and song had released several years ago. However, when fans of Zayn Malik realised that it was being hosted on music streaming platform, y raised ir voice against it. fans of Zayn Malik slammed song for being islamophobic and demanded Spotify take it down.
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Spotify takes te and removes song
song, which has w been removed from music streaming platform, appeared to show Zayn in a bad light. Fans claimed that it allegedly portrayed singer to have been involved in tragic bombing of World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 people had died. After voicing ir concerns online, fans realised that song had been removed from platform as it was longer available on Una Kompton’s artist p.
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A media portal reported that Spotify told m that Spotify does t permit content whose principal purpose is to incite hatred or violence against people because of ir race, religion, disability, identity, or sexual orientation. Reportedly, music streaming platform also told portal that y have always removed content that violates that standard. portal furr reported that Spotify told m that y do t promote hate speech.
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Here are some of fan tweets demanding removal of song from Spotify.
Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid to become parents soon
Zayn Malik is expecting a child with his model girlfriend Gigi Hadid, who is 25. two had revealed news to ir fans in May 2020. Later Gigi had appeared on popular Jimmy Fallon talk show and had talked about her pregnancy. She had revealed how she and Zayn are ready to welcome ir first child.
Reportedly, Gigi is staying at her mor’s farmhouse in Pennsylvania and has been keeping herself out of spotlight. According to a leading media portal, Zayn had bought a farm next to Gigi’s mor’s farm in Pennsylvania. Zayn had t been very active on Instagram and is keeping himself out of spotlight.
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Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid first started dating in 2015 but parted ways in 2018. re were several rumours that couple had rekindled ir love in January 2019. However, earlier this year, Gigi Hadid confirmed that she is back with Zayn Malik.
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15:48 IST, July 21st 2020