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The songs aren't stylistically similar, but "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" echoes "Watermelon Sugar" in that I can tell how much fun Styles is having, and his audible grin is absolutely infectious. I'd even venture to say "Sushi" is more delightful than his sophomore album's most beloved track. That's just one way the Fine Line single marked a pivotal moment in Styles' career. It also became his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, proving that he has staying power as a pop star in his own right.
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Styles’ experimental streak worked for him before Harry’s House, but this album feels settled in its skin, and truer to the artist he’ll ultimately be remembered as. From its huge lead single to a hugely affecting acoustic ballad, check out our picks for the most indispensable 'Harry's House' moments. Harry’s House is the long-awaited third album by the British singer and actor Harry Styles. It was announced on March 23, 2022, via Styles' social media along with the release date and a trailer.
Love Of My Life
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. The opening track Music for A Sushi Restaurant "could have been taken straight from an Eighties J-Pop record", he wrote, but added that there were "hooks aplenty" on some tracks and "quieter, acoustic moments" on others. Little Freak – a patchwork of memories that sees Styles sing, ‘I disrespected you/Jumped in feet first and I landed too hard/A broken ankle, karma rules/You never saw my ‘birthmark’ – was part recorded in Tokyo (credited as ‘Tom’s Room’ in the liner notes). It’s the only track on the album that nods to the writing trip that Kid Harpoon mentioned in his Music Week interview, when he was named Songwriter Of The Year in our last issue of 2020. "Cinema" centers around the sensual side of a new relationship and piecing together where you both stand (and features some very NSFW lyrics too).
The Album Is Titled Harry's House, Arriving May 20
It was also noted there were official youarehome Twitter and Instagram accounts. “Grape Juice” is another song that talks about an emotional and physical hangover. “Late Night Talking” is another glittering song that talks about the feeling of being infatuated with someone. It also talks about wanting to spend every moment with one person, as Coup De Main reports. All three of Styles’ albums have now racked up at least 100 stays on the Billboard 200.
Harry’s House is Style’s third solo album and managed to move more than 500,000 units after the first week it was released. The album perfectly strikes a balance between earnestness and aloofness. "It's both acknowledging my own behavior. It's looking at behavior that I've witnessed," he told Apple Music about the song. "I grew up with a sister, so it's watching her date people and watching friends date people, and people don't treat each other very nicely sometimes."
"Do you think I'm cool too? Or am I too into you?" The singer's fans believe this track to be about his girlfriend, actress and director Olivia Wilde. On "Matilda," Harry imagines the advice he'd give the protagonist from Roald Dahl's 1988 novel as an adult. Backed by delicately fingerpicked guitar, Harry weaves a story about dealing with family trauma, growing up and starting anew.
“As It Was”
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Harry’s House is Styles’ loosest, least fussy solo album to date, the sound of an artist in a rarefied pop star zone, comfortable in his environment and not having to worry about any unkempt corners of himself. Harry’s House was always destined for success on the Billboard charts, but it was kept alive, at least in part, by the incredible performance of its lead single. “As It Was” debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and held there for 15 weeks, ranking as one of the longest-charting leaders of all time.
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"You can let it go / You can throw a party full of everyone you know / And not invite your family," he explains. "You don't have to be sorry for leaving and growing up." And, while he acknowledges that "it's none of my business" (a subtle reference to his 2017 track "Kiwi"), he shares, "it's just been on my mind." Late-night longing comes into play in "Little Freak," a soft, melodic track about a relationship that slipped through Harry's fingers before it could ever start. "I disrespected you / Jumped in feet first and I landed too hard," he confesses during the song's middle eight.
Following the languid, sensual “Grapejuice,” “As It Was” arrives as a jolt of live-band vibrancy on the album, its mashed drums and kinetic bridge packing an even harder wallop. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 113,000 album-equivalent units, becoming the fastest-selling and best-selling album of 2022 in the country. It also debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 521,500 album-equivalent units, including 330,000 album sales. It debuted at number one in various other countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Styles’ longest-charting album on the Billboard 200 remains his second solo offering, Fine Line.
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." Along with touring, Styles has co-starred in the psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling and romantic drama My Policeman since the release of Harry's House. He also expanded on his fashion ventures, co-releasing a Gucci collection with fashion designer Alessandro Michele in Nov. 2022.
And as one of two songs with more than 2 billion Spotify streams alone, "Watermelon Sugar" has also proven to be a Harry Styles classic. Harry Styles finally revealed the full track listing for his eagerly anticipated third album, Harry’s House, and it did not disappoint. The singer posted the 13-track rundown on Thursday night (April 29) in the form of a classic album jacket, with the songs split into two sides. Harry Styles first found commercial success more than a decade ago as a member of One Direction, but since the group split, he’s more than proved himself as a solo superstar.
One of Styles' most gut-wrenching tracks, "Falling" offers an introspective take on heartbreak. The haunting piano-driven melody emphasizes the pain in Styles' voice as he realizes his harmful habits caused him to lose a lover. Though Styles has remained relatively quiet since the Love On Tour wrapped in July, he surely has fans anticipating his next move.
Its constantly pounding bassline is juxtaposed with Harry's breathy, distant vocals as he laments a love lost over a few bottles of wine. "I pay for it more than I did back then," Harry shares about his growing headache. "There's just no getting through / Without you / A bottle of rouge / Just me and you." If it's diaristic, open-heart-surgery-style music you're looking for, there are other artists who are happy to oblige. But if it's fistfuls of charisma and fruity allusions you're looking for, there's no one doing it like Styles. Instead, he disguised his homesickness as lovesickness, an ingenious solution that allows the song to resonate on several levels.
But whether "Boyfriends" is a practice in compassion or a personal anecdote, it's one of the most sonically stunning moments on the album. Styles' angelic harmonies, backed only by Ben Harper's acoustic guitar, recall the folksy allure of Simon & Garfunkel or Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide." Styles has always been a vibes-first, specifics-second songwriter — a formula that rarely benefits from speculation about his personal life. And it must be said that the slick, '70s vibes of "Cinema" are immaculate. It could've been inspired by Jar Jar Binks from "Star Wars" and I wouldn't care.
Multiple tracks on Harry’s House recall the dapper pop panache of Phil Collins’ ‘80s oeuvre, none more clearly than “Late Night Talking” — which sparkles above “Sussudio” synth chords and snappy percussion. Setting the tone for the album that follows, opener “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” downright struts — every choice here is loud and confident, from the outlandish romantic gestures in the lyrics to the horn jubilee that serves as a hook. If “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” is knowingly messy, Styles also understands the potential of a good freakout, as this track is guaranteed to slay when Styles plays it in concert. [Harry’s House is] more electronic in a lot of places than anything I’ve made, it’s also so much more intimate to me.
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