Where has Liam Payne disappeared to? The 26-year-old Brit seemed to be on fire during 2017-18, but then all of a sudden he stopped releasing singles. Now he’s finally back with “Stack It Up”, and an explanation to why it had taken the song so long to come out.
Payne, who rose to fame as a member of One Direction, was a guest on Billboard’s First Stream Live where he explained that “Stack It Up” was held up a year due to a series of coincidences.
“We literally did the song with Boogie and then we found out that he had a song on Ed Sheeran’s album,” he said, referring to rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie who collaborated on the track. “So it was like, ‘Okay, we’ll just have to wait for that to go by.”
“[…] after that, he had a song that was coming out, so we waited for that to go by,” continued Payne. “And then there was some sort of weird thing that happened with some sort of Grammy nomination week thing that happened when there was a date in place, and everyone was rushing for the date and I was like, ‘I want no part in this, I feel like Grammys are a while away for me yet, so I’m just going to avoid that at all costs.’”
Watch the delightful and coveted “Stack It Up” below. It was worth the wait!
