The long overdue Harry Styles thread

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

really amazing song and video imo

feels to me like a chillwave "blinding lights"

(i like the song a lot)

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

It's aight.

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

Almost...

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

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

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

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?

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

Not bad.

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.

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

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.

mind = mine

don’t insult heartstopper like that

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.

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

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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