Harry Styles

Harry Styles has dropped his hotly anticipated new song “As It Was.” It's the lead single and video from his upcoming third album, Harry's House, ...

“As It Was” is more than a creative peak — it’s a fearless leap into a new era. “As It Was” comes out almost exactly five years after he began his solo career. As he told Rolling Stone in the Fine Line era, “It’s all about having sex and feeling sad.” That perfectly describes “As It Was” — the moment when being in love forces you to confront some of your own baggage, the feelings you usually hide from yourself. Styles wrote “As It Was” with his trusty longtime collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, who both produced. Me and my team from Ukraine poured so much love into this video, and you can see it onscreen.” Yet it also feels like it’s about a relationship, full of secret confessions shared between two people — the first time he’s ever started off an album era with a love song.

The synth-heavy intro is perfect for racing down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down. The groovy electric guitar licks inject the song with an infectious ...

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That adorable voice, EW has confirmed, belongs to Ruby Winston, Styles' 5-year-old goddaughter and Late Late Show and Grammys executive producer Ben Winston's ...

Styles' longtime collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson produced and, along with Styles, co-wrote "As It Was," while Mitch Rowland traded in his guitar for the drums this time around. Check out the music video below. before he launches into the song's lyrics.

Harry Styles has shared the first single from his upcoming album 'Harry's House,' which he announced last week alongside a gorgeous trailer.

Harry’s House will feature “As It Was” alongside 12 other tracks. “Shooting him was bittersweet as it was one of the happiest days of my life, but on the second day of the shoot, my country Ukraine was invaded so you can imagine the insane emotions we had while shooting. He’s set to star in Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller, Don’t Worry Darling, later this year, and he’s also set to appear in My Policeman as a closeted gay police officer in ‘50s Britain. Most recently he appeared as Eros, the brother of MCU big-bad Thanos, in Eternals.

'Who is Harry Styles' goddaughter' we hear you cry? Well, the lucky youngster is five-year-old Ruby Winston, the daughter of Ben Winston, the British producer ...

Harry revealed: “It’s the voice of my goddaughter, she used to try and call me before bedtime every night and one time it didn’t ring or something so they sent me that. ‘Who is Harry Styles’ goddaughter’ we hear you cry? I dug it out when we were in the studio and put it in front of the song for some reason and I kind of just fell in love with it so it stuck.”

Harry Styles is back with his first solo single in over two years, As It Was. It's a synth-pop bop tinged with sadness, which indicates a tonal shift for ...

"As It Was" has already created a new lens for us to view the demi-god (literally, he’s a demi-god in the MCU now), so perhaps Harry’s House will show more of an earnest introspection from the star who famously keeps much to himself. "Sign of the Times", which led the self-titled Harry Styles and introduced us to a new solo star, was an anthemic and cathartic ballad that showed us the emotive private life of a star we had, until that point, only seen as one of five. So can we expect Harry’s House (which is taken from the Joni Mitchell song of the same name) to go full peace, love and rock’n’roll?

Many will pore over the gossipy, self-referential lyrics, but Styles's song is for everyone: an effervescent, high-tempo hit to have you clicking your ...

Styles’ sheer, objective gorgeousness is of course a big part of his pop star appeal, and elevates his entire endeavour further; watching the video, that sense of freedom is heightened by his very loveliness, a man who seems to move through life on a different track to the rest of us. Since then, splashy shoots for Vogue and Dazed and the launch of his beauty company Pleasing have positioned him as a post-metrosexual arbiter of contemporary manhood: muscular and tattooed but wearing women’s clothes, being fluid to soften old binaries. But he cruised on to a golden Pacific Coast Highway of pop with 2019’s exceptional Fine Line: focused and alert, even as the hazy musical surroundings changed around him.

For much of the artsy video, which runs for less than three minutes, Styles is twirling around on his own in a red sequined jumpsuit that matches his nails. He ...

“In this world, it’s just us / You know it’s not the same as it was,” he sings. There’s more than enough room to, anyway, based on the music video for Harry Styles’s new single, “As It Was.” For much of the artsy video, which runs for less than three minutes, Styles is twirling around on his own in a red sequined jumpsuit that matches his nails. He begins the video with a companion, a woman in a blue jumpsuit, but she’s constantly being pulled away from him.

Romping around a rainy Barbican, the former One Direction man's new single tees up a feverishly anticipated album.

“Me and my team from Ukraine poured so much love into this video and you can see it on screen. It’s got a whiff of the Eighties (what doesn’t these days?) although it’s nowhere near as Synths For Dummies as a lot of the stuff we’ve been peddled in recent years. All of which is to say: there’s a new Hazza song out, with an excellent video to match.

Harry Styles has spoken about working with Ukrainian director Tanu Muino on his latest music video as he praised her and the team for continuing to film ...

Speaking about the album, which is released on May 20, he told Ball: "I’m really, really proud of it. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. "I think for me personally it was the first time I’d really been forced to pause and I think obviously it gave me a chance to work out who I was away from music, as a friend, a son, a brother, all those things.

Last week, Harry Styles teased an imminent return by posting his new album cover for Harry's House. The low-key visuals for his third solo record, ...

(The intro even includes his five-year-old goddaughter Ruby calling out: “Come on, Harry, we want to say goodnight to you!”) Thankfully, his playful new style groove is a perfect match, too. The release of the first song from the album, “As It Was”, shows Styles’s knack for putting a fresh twist on classic ’70s pieces looks set to continue. Filmed in and around a number of London landmarks—including the central hall of Camberwell’s South London Gallery and the brutalist gardens of the Barbican Centre—Styles and his stylist Harry Lambert showcase an array of charming, more laid-back looks that lose none of his signature eye for glitz and kaleidoscopic color.

Harry Styles revealed the identity of the child we hear at the beginning of his new song, "As It Was," revealing that the cameo comes from someone very ...

"I think so many pop stars try and be something that they think other people want them to be," he said. Although it may sound like James Reynolds, the oldest daughter of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, who also appeared on Taylor Swift's 2017 track, "Gorgeous," Styles says that it wasn't her. "She used to try and call me before bedtime every night and one time it didn’t ring or something so they sent me that," he explained.

The pop star's first single from his new album Harry's House is a wistful bit of synth-pop.

“You know it’s not the same as it was,” he sings shruggingly, stating the obvious and declining to elaborate. If Styles’ last record was about having sex and feeling sad, “As It Was” seems to be about having sex, feeling sad, then getting over it. “Seems to be” is the best I can do, given the evasiveness of the lyrics—a frequent shortcoming in Styles’ songwriting.