Ungrateful little brat!

Zayn Malik didn't hold back at taking a swipe at his former band One Direction in a new interview with Fader magazine, and you'd think he would be slightly more kind to the guys that helped him become famous and make millions!

"That’s not music that I would listen to. "Would you listen to One Direction 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," he sniped.

The British boy bander then went on to explain how he left the mega group because he wanted to make music that was more in tune with his personal vibe.

"A big part of why I left the band is I made the realization that it wasn’t actually about [being the biggest] anymore. It wasn’t about the amount of ticket sales that I get. It was more about the people that I reach. I want to reach them in the right way, and I want them to believe what I’m saying," he revealed.

Malik blames the band's management for stifling his vision and leaving him no choice but to walk away. "I’m actually quite easy, a happy-go-lucky sort of guy, but there was a lot of situations that were almost created to make me be portrayed as the mysterious or quiet one… It’s a product that’s already designed, and it sells. There was never any room for me to experiment creatively. 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—k, so they could use that version. Whenever I would suggest something, it was like it didn’t fit us," he complained.

This little snot better hope his solo album doesn't tank, or else he's gonna look like a real idiot!