The long overdue Harry Styles thread

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Let's just give in.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/harry-styles-cover-interview-album-871568/

Among my fave quotes (absolutely no irony):

“We’d do mushrooms, lie down on the grass, and listen to Paul McCartney’s Ram in the sunshine,” he says. “We’d just turn the speakers into the yard.” The chocolate edibles were kept in the studio fridge, right next to the blender. “You’d hear the blender going, and think, ‘So we’re all having frozen margaritas at 10 a.m. this morning.’” He points to a corner: “This is where I was standing when we were doing mushrooms and I bit off the tip of my tongue. So I was trying to sing with all this blood gushing out of my mouth. So many fond memories, this place.”

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In the studio, he’s overseeing the string quartet. He has the engineers play T. Rex’s “Cosmic Dancer” for them, to illustrate the vibe he’s going for.

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He got so obsessive about Joni Mitchell and her 1971 classic Blue, he went on a quest. “I was in a big Joni hole,” he says. “I kept hearing the dulcimer all over Blue. So I tracked down the lady who built Joni’s dulcimers in the Sixties.” He found her living in Culver City. “She said, ‘Come and see me,’” Hull says. “We turn up at her house and he said, ‘How do you even play a dulcimer?’ She gave us a lesson. Then she got a bongo and we were all jamming with these big Cheshire Cat grins.”

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He’s always had a fervent female fandom, and, admirably, he’s never felt a need to pretend he doesn’t love it that way. “They’re the most honest — especially if you’re talking about teenage girls, but older as well,” he says. “They have that bullshit detector. You want honest people as your audience. We’re so past that dumb outdated narrative of ‘Oh, these people are girls, so they don’t know what they’re talking about.’ They’re the ones who know what they’re talking about. They’re the people who listen obsessively. They fucking own this shit. They’re running it.”

Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link

and he loves London Town, Back to the Egg, and "Landslide."

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 August 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link

And tattoos.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 August 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

why is harry styles?
did the ed sheeran bot break down?

wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link

white girls needed someone whose photoshoots they could quote-tweet with "ended toxic masculinity!!"

dyl, Sunday, 1 December 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link

no offense to white girls, i'm not any better than y'all, not by a long shot

dyl, Sunday, 1 December 2019 09:05 (four years ago) link

“sign of the times” is a great great song

brimstead, Sunday, 1 December 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link

i sometimes hate it

dyl, Monday, 2 December 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link

I was team Zayn during the OD days and right after (why because he look interesting) and never cared too much for SOTT (though I did like it), but I find myself loving both “Lights Up” and “Watermelon Sugar” a lot. Styled for the Harness!

breastcrawl, Monday, 2 December 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link

One extra reason I love “Lights Up” is that the intro reminds me of one of my favourite Nederpop classics:
http://www.youtube.com/Y8fRQc3lBag

breastcrawl, Monday, 2 December 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iquhBgM-Qv0

i think this album's going to be pretty good

ufo, Friday, 6 December 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link

idk, that one seems a notch or two below the others.

btw, for everyone who sent in postcards with their guesses, the nugget in question was this, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8fRQc3lBag

breastcrawl, Friday, 6 December 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link

"adore you" is the best one yet imo

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link

it's better than "watermelon sugar" for me, i like it

dyl, Saturday, 7 December 2019 05:38 (four years ago) link

Album is excellent

groovypanda, Friday, 13 December 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ3PeDGswz4

groovypanda, Friday, 13 December 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link

i don't if it's excellent, but it's better than the first one.
the first stretch until 'cherry' is amazing.

Nourry, Friday, 13 December 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link

i’m on “she” right now, so far this record is fucking awesome

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link

is that Harry doing Gainsborough/Sea Change-era Beck

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link

are you talking about the album cover or the song

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link

i only have mixed feelings with 'falling'.
loving the last one.

Nourry, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link

title track is incredible

"falling" is v much a middling mid-album ballad but it's still getting to me

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link

"treat people with kindness" is like harry trying to rewrite the zombies' "friends of mine" and i'm not mad

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link

i bet that by monday i'll be totally won over by this record.

Nourry, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link

Been playing this daily since it came out. So many great little production bits, perfectly sequenced, and enjoy every song. Can't wait to finally play it on headphones after giving it to the OB&C for Xmas.

Loved reading that he took a bunch of mushrooms and played "Ram" to get inspired. Feel like this might get lost in terms of year-end lists due to the release date, but time will be kind. Far better than the debut, which was pretty good in its own right.

Wally P. Doyle, Thursday, 26 December 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

kinda love it now. 'falling' is the only song that i skip most of the times.

Nourry, Thursday, 26 December 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Maximum Dad this morning: woke up early to take my older daughter and her friends to the arena to wait in line to get wristbands to get good pit-placement for the Harry Styles show tonight. They are inordinately excited.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 September 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link

six months pass...

i've mostly been a h8r toward his solo career but "as it was" is probably my fav single he's put out thus far, tho those stupid bells almost pull me out of it

dyl, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 01:36 (two years ago) link

The video is easily and I’m not just saying this, one of the best I’ve ever seen.

piscesx, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link

really amazing song and video imo

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 12:40 (two years ago) link

feels to me like a chillwave "blinding lights"

(i like the song a lot)

in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link

holy cow at that video, quite an achievement. song is a mega earworm but not my bag.

the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link

It's aight.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link

Funny, you could almost believe it was Noel G on that thread start.

Almost...

Mark G, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

heard "As It Was" in the wild today (well, at the office) and it sounded fantastic.

middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 May 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link

i heard the album, which leaked awfully early. his best yet imo, consistent with a few stunners. enjoy that he seems to have crafted this low key solo career on his own terms, given the rank desperation given off by some of his former bandmates

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 6 May 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link

"As It Was" seems programmed precisely for my ears but I'm cool towards it except as a radio jam.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 May 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link

also: i don’t remember thinking anything about the quality of his vocal in 1d but, at least on this record and the last one, now i love his singing?

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAPW7ZoOLw

groovypanda, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link

Not bad.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link

yep.

re the album- some don't like his lyrics

NY Times review excerpt-

The wedding-band funk of “Daydreaming” and the lyrically inane “Cinema” feel comparatively frictionless, and display Styles’s unfortunate tendency to write lyrics that feel more like precisely posed Instagram carousels than conjurings of specific emotional states.

Washington Post excerpt- “Harry’s House” is a lyrically vague offering that sticks to you-know-I-love-you-babe platitudes. You won’t feel as if you know Styles any better when it’s over — a wise move for an overexposure-courting celebrity in a public relationship, but criminally deficient for a would-be confessional singer-songwriter.

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link

I will note that precisely posed Instagram carousels DO conjure emotional states.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link

I didn't read the review, but I noted in mind how Styles is Heartstopper in human form -- and, boy, do precisely posed Instagram carousels advance its narrative.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

mind = mine

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

don’t insult heartstopper like that

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

I listened to Fine Line a lot with my (now almost 14yr old) daughter during the first lockdown and I find the title track and 'Falling' almost unbearably poignant. We're listening to the new one now (bought her the vinyl) and it's sounding really good. 'Matilda' and 'Satellite' current standouts for me.

Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link

two months pass...

did you see this? harry styles spit on chris pine. yeah, it's true. people are dissecting the footage looking for a second spitter but apparently it only came from one direction pic.twitter.com/76GiOxj8Ye

— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) September 6, 2022

The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 04:36 (one year ago) link

:(

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link

Worry? I’m not even here, darling.

Caption: Chris Pine astral projecting at Venice Film Festival. September 5, 2022. pic.twitter.com/qSU1XbTWDp

— Richard Newby (@RICHARDLNEWBY) September 5, 2022

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link


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