Zayn's new music video for 'Cruel' is pretty trippy

It's a video within a video within a video.
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If you can't get enough of post-One Direction Zayn, the new video for his Snakeships collaboration, "Cruel" is just for you: There are several Zayns, smizing at the camera and dancing about.

The disorienting clip starts at the scene of an arrest, and then it cuts to Zayn sitting in a neon-lit room, a screen behind him with another Zayn in front of another screen, and then another and... ok you get it. The matryoshka doll-esque visuals continue into a club scene until it all reaches a sort of Inception-like state, like the time Macaulay Culkin wore a a photo of Ryan Gosling wearing a photo of Macaulay Culkin, but even sexier.

After releasing his debut solo album, Mind of Mine, earlier this year, Zayn is already writing new music apparently. According to MIA, the two teamed up via WhatsApp to write a song for her upcoming album, AIM.


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