Liam Payne Shares First Song He Wrote for Hometown Trailing One Direction Hiatus [LISTEN]

One Direction is officially on hiatus, which means millions of fans have no idea where to turn without the quartet's magical ability to roll out hit after hit. Since Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson took time off from making music to focus on different avenues of their lives, Payne has recently revealed the first track he's written for Irish boy band Hometown since the reprieve from his own boy band.

On the X Factor finale, One Direction took the stage on Dec. 13 to tackle their last gig for an undetermined amount of time with a performance of "History" and "Infinity." On Dec. 21, Payne tweeted a video for the Hometown track, titled "The Night We Met," which he collaborated on with Jamie Scott, DailyMail notes. The track has been available for the past few weeks in Ireland and only recently hit fans in the U.K.

Made in the AM, the group's fifth studio album, made its debut in November of 2015, their first without fifth counterpart Zayn Malik. The news of Malik's departure shook the directioner fanbase pretty hard but the boy band's ability to craft char-topping singles seemed unaffected as they notched the fastest selling album of the year, before Adele's 25, that is. In Made in the AM's first week, the album reeled in 93,000 copies.

After Malik took shots at his old band mates, calling their music "basic as f*ck," Simon Cowell, responsible for crafting the group, had a few words of his own. "I think once he has had a chance to reflect on everything he will probably reconsider what he's said because it was a very, very democratic process in the band. It is a bit rude to the people who wrote all the hits with them. And to the other band members. I mean they all wrote a lot of the stuff," Cowell told The Mirror.

"To be honest I don't even think about it too much because as soon as he left we sorted him out with a label who really were enthusiastic about him and then my loyalty was back with the boys," he added. "Life could have been a lot worse, right?"

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Liam Payne, One Direction, Zayn Malik