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Wow! Did Zayn Malik just shade Naughty Boy?

  • July 13, 2015
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Former One Direction heartthrob Zayn Malik has set tongues wagging on Twitter this afternoon with a heavily coded tweet that SOME fans are sug­gest­ing might subtly shade producer Naughty Boy.

But is this beef, or yet another example of fans and the media trying to stir up drama out of nothing?!

Well, the tweet SEEMS to have been sent to the '@NaughtyBoyMusic' twitter account. Reading between the lines here, is it plausible that Zayn might have been targeting Naughty Boy — who uses the @NaughtyBoyMusic Twitter account, and that's a fact — with this tweet?! Seems possible!!

But let's not jump to conclusions!

That phrase "you fat joke stop pre­tend­ing we're friends no one knows you" seems perfectly friendly. People use the phrase"you fat joke stop pre­tend­ing we're friends no one knows you" in con­ver­sa­tion all the time. And STILL many Directioners seem to think Zayn might have been subtly shading Naughty Boy with that line. Could it be the case that there is a multi-layered subtext to the phrase "you fat joke stop pre­tend­ing we're friends no one knows you"??!

Only time will tell!!

So what do you think? Was this shade, or are we reading too much into it?

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