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But it's also the second track on a playlist I made, consisting solely of songs about the contemplation of aging, the passage of time, and the crushing realization that you need to accept changes that have already been put into motion. Think Taylor Swift's "It's Time to Go," Lorde's "Stoned at the Nail Salon," or Bo Burnham's "That Funny Feeling." And no complaints about that, but are we sure someone didn’t just mistake the shopping list for song lyrics and commit to the bit? It’s also worth noting that Harry’s House adds to Harry’s ongoing run of fruit-titled songs, with “Grapejuice” following in the sticky footsteps of “Cherry,” “Kiwi,” and “Watermelon Sugar.” Someone feed this man. Harry’s House follows 2019’s Fine Line — for which he just finished up his world tour — and his 2017 self-titled debut album. The images behind the door appeared to correlate to different book or theme.
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Just over five years ago, Harry Styles dropped a solo debut that absolutely no one saw coming, especially from a guy who had closed the door on his role as lead heartthrob in pop juggernaut One Direction only 18 months earlier. “Harry Styles” was a timeless, oddly genre-less album that sounded vaguely like a pop collection from the early 1970s, and like nothing else released that year. Regardless, it was a hit and gave the young singer the runway to find his sea legs as a solo artist — and more importantly, a clean slate he could follow with anything he wanted. With the announcement of "Harry's House," Styles shared what is assumed to be the cover art, which features him wearing cozy clothes in a room where everything is upside down. The album has been teased for the past few weeks with a project called "You Are Home." Newspaper ads started popping up around the world with artwork resembling the album artwork.
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But according to insiders, Harry is now having second thoughts as he’s concerned over his safety after being stripped of taxpayer-funded security protection in the UK. Harry also wore his Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, handed out to members of the emergency services, Armed Forces, prison service, and the royal household. In the congratulatory video, Harry wore a black blazer atop a crisp white shirt and red tie.
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David Tepper made a fool of himself, the Raiders look smart, Howie Roseman restocked the Eagles’ secondary, and the Bills (finally) landed a wide receiver. It’s been well over a year of on-set romance and oceanside PDA between Harry and his current partner, Olivia Wilde, and Harry seems to be ready to talk about his thriving, oft-controversial relationship. Or sing about it, anyway—he politely dodged questions about Olivia during a recent interview with Howard Stern. As of the album announcement, the door has changed to the Harry’s House cover art.
The haunting piano-driven melody emphasizes the pain in Styles' voice as he realizes his harmful habits caused him to lose a lover. Styles' emotionally charged vocal delivery accentuates and intensifies the profound sense of melancholy that is being relayed in the song. The depth in Styles' voice invites the audience to connect and empathize with the song's heartbroken narrative — a trait that still permeates in his solo ballads today. After a wildly successful debut and sophomore record, you'd think it was impossible for Harry Styles to top himself. Yet, his third album, Harry's House, proved to be his most prolific yet.
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There's no turning back once you hit "cocaine, side boob, choke her with a sea view." If I were to name a fault here, I think it can drag on a bit, especially in the outro. The lyrics themselves aren't particularly profound, full of simple affirmations like "You can let it go," and "Make your tea and your toast." But that simplicity belies a deep well of empathy, from which the song draws its power. With this understanding of the song, it's especially intriguing that it doesn't come off as angry or annoyed. Instead, Styles sounds more tender than ever as he croons, "If I was a bluebird / I would fly to you / You'd be the spoon / Dip you in honey so I could be sticking to you."
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Every album he’s released has become not only a huge win in the U.S., but a sturdy one. As of this week, all of his projects have reached a special milestone, with his most recent full-length just now making it to that mark. Fans assumed that Styles wouldn't be playing North American dates this year, but on May 5 the singer announced a new batch of shows. In the late summer and fall, he'll play 10 dates in New York City, 10 dates in Los Angeles, two dates in Toronto, five dates in Austin, and five dates in Chicago. That's on top of his "One Night Only" shows in New York and London right after the album releases. While Styles's first two albums didn't include collaborations, he's shared the stage with the likes of Lizzo, Stormzy, Stevie Nicks, and Kacey Musgraves in the past.
The pandemic-driven two years of downtime was the first time Styles had a break since his career began in 2010. Being home for an extended period proved revelatory for Styles; he found home in the physical sense, but also "in terms of a headspace or mental well-being," he told Better Homes & Gardens. The boy bander turned rock star hasn't said too much about his next LP, the follow-up to 2019's Fine Line. But amid his Coachella teasers and his fitting Better Homes & Gardens cover story, there's still plenty to divulge for fans before Harry's House arrives. Then, on March 18, the youarehome account on Twitter started posting spoilers about the album daily, such as lyrics and themes on the album.
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Such devotion to the feminine certainly makes Styles’s music go down smoother than the many pop songs pockmarked with outright misogyny. But this other-oriented perspective has also made Styles himself feel, on his records, like something of a cipher. This problem was less apparent on the superior “Fine Line,” which partially chronicled a breakup and allowed space for Styles to wallow, transgress and occasionally get a revealing jab in at his ex’s new partner (“Does he take you walking round his parents’ gallery?”). Despite the open-door intimacy suggested by its title, “Harry’s House” doesn’t have much in the way of furniture.
A website also appeared with a door on it that, every day, would open to a different backdrop. Now that we have the album art, we know that the door opens to the room Styles is in. A Twitter account has been created and is sharing what fans assume are lyrics from upcoming songs.
The title of the pop star’s latest album suggests open-door intimacy, but instead pairs more vivid sonic landscapes with less revealing lyrics. Throughout the album, Styles’ singing is as conversational as his lyrics, making romance feel like a hopeful, at times fragile, dialogue between equals. It makes sense that Harry’s House is coming out just as summer bar-patio season is kicking into full swing. A lot of young artists trying on sleek Eighties sounds tend to lapse into a kind of pantomime of cocaine-glazed New Wave detachment. On songs like “Keep Driving” and “Grapejuice,” the airy, sumptuous grooves clear a space for Styles to explore a sense of desire that’s tinged with openness and vulnerability.
The first door, shared on March 19, opened up to the cover of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature and Selected Essays; the second door, shared March 20, opened up to the sheets on the cover of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The next You Are Home door revealed a photo of everyone’s home, planet Earth, and the following day’s door concealed Cavallini’s mushroom puzzle. Styles also released a 40-second trailer for the new album, wherein he walks pensively onto a theater stage and smiles into the camera as the outline of a yellow house rises above him.
Styles hinted to Better Homes & Gardens that while Harry's House "sounds like the biggest, and the most fun" of his albums thus far, he also revealed, "it's by far the most intimate." The Grammy winner’s debut full-length, a self-titled affair, also hit the 100-week milestone. While speaking with Apple Music, Harry explained that "Love of My Life" is "a song about home" that initially felt "terrifying" because of its minimal musical accompaniment.
True, on paper, "Hash brown, egg yolk / I will always love you" looks like pop-song babble. But compare that to friction of "choke her with a sea view," or the restlessness of the chorus. Styles craves peace and domesticity, but doubt tends to creep in, "a small concern with how the engine sounds." That's where "As It Was" has found its home in my head, among depressing songs about how life isn't what it used to be. It's a multifaceted, pensive, upbeat track that makes me want to dance while I cry.
And England were “the longest time I’d been anywhere for years.” Other songs were conceived while Harry was taking a solo road trip back from a vacation in Italy, and that oceanside-driving energy steadily infects the entire album with summer vibes and carefree choruses. All this is applied to really well-crafted pop songs, polished by Styles and his longstanding co-author Kid Harpoon to the point that pretty much any of them could happily function as a single. It’s an album that, perhaps understandably, suggests an appealing confidence on the part of its authors, a world away from the classic rock cosplay of Styles’s eponymous 2017 debut. Even if you don’t buy the notion of Styles as a genius auteur whose oeuvre warrants comparison with the work of the artists he started his solo career aping, you’d have to concede it sounds like the work of people who know exactly what they’re doing.
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