He says it is "not something" he would listen to.

While Payne has given a thumbs up to Niall Horan's singles "Slow hands" and "This town", he says he is not a fan of the kind of music Styles has made, reports dailymail.co.uk.

"Niall had ‘Slow hands' out and ‘This Town', which is great. Niall's gone down the singer-songwriter route which is really cool," Payne said.

But, while talking about Styles, Payne said: "Harry's song, um, I heard... I'll be honest with you, it's not my sort of music.

Styles and Ward's relationship came into spotlight last week. However, the revelation left Ward dealing with a backlash on social media.

"Snapchat I've deleted, Twitter -- don't really do it. I'm even a little bit out of love with Instagram," Ward told thetimes.co.uk.

"At the moment I'm getting a lot of direct messages there, but I respectfully choose not to reply to them, because they're all like, er, interesting. I want a break. I just want a break," she added.

The 23-year-old met Mitch through his sound engineer and was impressed by his talent, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"I found a guy who is now in my band called Mitch. He was actually working in a pizza shop when I met him. And he'd never worked in a studio or anything. He is the engineer's room mate and he came down into the studio. 

"He was just an absolute monster and now he is one of my closest friends," Styles said on "The Chris Evans Breakfast Show" on Friday.