#HARRY STYLES ALBUM COVER FREE#
This from someone who’s had free rein to pursue every musical whim, and hand in the album of his dreams in the form of “Fine Line.” Chart success makes it all the sweeter, but Styles insists that writing “for the right reasons” supersedes any commercial considerations. “People within feel like they operate on a higher level of listening, and I like to make music from the point of being a fan of music,” Styles says. He likes to focus on feelings - his own and his followers’ - and see himself on the other side of the velvet rope, an important distinction in his view. “I was scared to get it wrong.”Ĭontemporary effects and on-trend beats hardly factor into Styles’ decision-making. “I love that album so much because it represents such a time in my life, but when I listen to it - sonically and lyrically, especially - I can hear places where I was playing it safe,” he says. In fact, the times when he pondered or approved a purposeful tweak, like on his self-titled 2017 debut, still gnaw at him. Styles is quick to note that he doesn’t chase pop appeal when crafting songs.
I have a 3-year-old and an 8-year-old, and they listen to it.” “I get sent videos all the time from friends of their kids singing. “I’ve never had a song connect with children in this way,” says Hull, whose credits include tunes by Shawn Mendes, Florence and the Machine and Calvin Harris. The simplicity of watermelon … there’s such a joy in it, is a massive part of that song’s success.” Also, his kids love it. His longtime collaborator and friend Tom Hull, also known as the producer Kid Harpoon, offers this take: “There’s a lot of amazing things about that song, but what really stands out is the lyric. While he acknowledges a “nursery rhyme” feel to “Watermelon Sugar” with its earwormy loop of a chorus, that’s about as much insight as he can offer. Why do these particular songs resonate in 2020? Styles doesn’t have the faintest idea. The massive cross-platform success of these songs means Styles has finally and decisively broken into the American market, maneuvering its web of gatekeepers to accumulate 6.2 million consumption units and rising. 22 on Variety’s year-end Hitmakers chart), with a third, “Golden,” already cresting the top 20 on the pop format. This is especially true in the U.S., where he’s notched two hit singles, “Adore You,” the second-most-played song at radio in 2020, and “Watermelon Sugar” (No. In truth, while Styles has largely been keeping a low profile - his Love On Tour, due to kick off on April 15, was postponed in late March and is now scheduled to launch in February 2021 (whether it actually will remains to be seen) - his music has not. I lean into moments like this - moments of uncertainty.” “I think it’s been pretty good for me to have a kind of stop, to look and think about what it actually means to be an artist, what it means to do what we do and why we do it. “It’s been a pause that I don’t know if I would have otherwise taken,” says Styles. The time has allowed him to ponder such heady issues as his purpose on the earth. Styles has spent much of the past nine months at home in London, where life has slowed considerably. And for the first time, he’s using his megaphone to speak out about social justice - inspired by the outpouring of support for Black people around the world following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May. In preparing for his role in Olivia Wilde’s period thriller “Don’t Worry Darling,” which is shooting outside Palm Springs, he found an outlet for expression in interpreting words on a page. With “Fine Line,” he’s proved himself a skilled lyricist with a tremendous ear for harmony and melody. Styles’ isolation has coincided with his maturation as an artist, a thespian and a person. (Last month Styles became the first male to grace the cover of Vogue solo.) Still, it stings a little that a waltz with the former One Direction member may not come to pass on this album cycle - curse you, coronavirus. Quite the opposite: He does very few, conceivably to give more of himself and not cheapen what is out there and also to use the publicity opportunity to indulge his other interests, like fashion. None of which is to suggest that Styles, 26, phones it in for interviews.
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