Harry Styles has dropped his latest album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally and fans are already poring over all cryptic lyrics and hidden meanings in each of the 12 new tracks.
We have now grown accustomed to deciphering Easter Eggs thanks to Taylor Swift’s Sherlock Holmes-level riddling. So in that vein, we did some sleuthing to uncover all the biggest bombshells Harry drops in his new album.
From his thoughts on his moustache, to his stance on marriage and the identity of ‘Carla’, here’s all the juiciest revelations from Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
Harry cries in the club (just like us)
Much of the album is inspired by Harry entering his club era, with the singer saying ahead of its release that “be[ing] in a dark pit with people dancing is special”.
This comes to the fore on 10th track “Dance No More”, where Harry sings of the nightclub scene and puts his “hands up high” to music that “hits me 10 out of 10”.
While the track is dance-friendly, Harry revealed it was actually inspired by a club night that left him in tears.
“I remember going out for the first time in Berlin and standing in the middle of the dancefloor and feeling so unbelievably free and safe,” he told Zane Lowe. “I just stood with my arms in the air with my eyes closed and I just felt these tears streaming down my face and just feeling so alive.”
Thankfully it was happy tears, but he’d also be forgiven for crying legitimately in the club. Those tequila shots can go either way.
That ‘Fox’ you heard? It’s a producer’s son
At one point on “Dance No More”, Harry is heard calling out to someone named Fox. Perhaps preempting the inevitable avalanche of theories, Styles confirmed Fox is the son of his producer, Kid Harpoon.
Harry said Fox was “jealous” that his mum, Jenny Myles, was name-checked on the Fine Line track “Canyon Moon”, so he nestled Fox’s into “Dance No More” to compensate.
“[Fox] was jealous that we put his mum’s name Jenny in ‘Canyon Moon’,” Harry told Zane. “So he was playing football and he was like ‘if I hit the cross bar, will you put my name in the song? And he hit the crossbar so then I had to put his name in his song.”
Fox wasn’t the only one name-dropped on the album, so keep your eyes peeled for Carla.
Harry is keeping the moustache
Seventh track “Season 2 Weight Loss” generated much chatter before it was even released.
Many fans theorised that the song might’ve taken aim at the rise of weight-loss drugs in Hollywood, but Harry confirmed it’s more to do with his own changing appearance.
“It’s like when there is a Netflix show and it blows up and everyone comes back in the second season and everyone has a nutritionist and a trainer and looks amazing. Season 2 Weight Loss,” Harry explained.
“That is what it was like for me I felt like I was coming back as a stronger version of myself.”
For Harry, that version includes his on-again, off-again moustache.
“Whenever I had a break from touring I would always grow my stash and then when I went back on tour I would shave it off and there would be this feeling of, this isn’t the version of me that people expect,” he explained.
“[So ‘Season 2 Weight Loss’] is this idea of feeling like if I have to show up as this version of myself, will you take me as that? Or are you taking me because I show up as this version of myself that you’ve desired from me in some way?”
It’s all a very poetic way of saying Harry bristles against the pop star version of himself compared to who he really is off stage, with the stash being a (hairy) metaphor for that disconnect.
Harry still has a decent amount of facial hair in this album era, so don’t go telling him to shave it before he goes on tour.
Who is Carla?
Harry has a pattern of name-checking mystery women in his projects, from 2017’s “Carolina”, which is rumoured to be about a fan encounter, to the Harry’s House track “Matilda”, where he sings about a girl mistreated by her family.
The new album finds its feminine muse on final track “Carla’s Song”, but before all the shippers come out of the woodwork, the real-life Carla is just a friend of Harry’s.
Speaking of the song’s inspiration, Harry recalled showing Carla the Simon And Garfunkel song “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, and her reaction being the impetus behind the namesake song.
“It felt like I was watching someone see in technicolour or discover magic. There was something in that moment that reminded me what you are investing in [by making music], and it is songs that go beyond our lifetime,” Harry explained.
“I then played her ‘Cathy’s Song’, which is my favourite Simon and Garfunkel song, and that’s why it’s called ‘Carla’s Song’.”
One of these days, there’ll be a song named after me. If only I wasn’t male and had actually met Harry beyond the One Direction poster on my wall.
Harry is getting serious about marriage
Now the moment you’ve been waiting for: does Harry sing about his love life?
He’s been making headlines recently via his splashy romance with actress Zoë Kravitz, and fans thought the album’s second track “American Girls” would be an ode to this new relationship.
And as it turns out, it is… kind of.
The song is about fancying American women (Harry has his own history with Stateside flings), but in the context of three of his friends who got married last year while he was still single.
“‘American Girls’ is actually about watching them get married and the magic when you find the right person that you want to be with,” Harry explained.
“Watching them do it and seeing that it doesn’t come without any uncertainty and it doesn’t come without any risk.”
Naturally, all his friends getting hitched forced Harry to consider his own wedding plans, which he didn’t shy away from discussing.
“I had a real honest conversation with myself saying, in five years, what do I want my life to look like? And how do I make changes to aim at that? I don’t want to be the guy who’s on his own,” Harry told Zane.
“I want to be fulfilled and I want to be in great relationships with people. I want a family. I want these things, but how do I create space to allow these things to happen? I can’t just expect them to just happen to me.”
I’m not sure about you, but that sounds to me like some serious talk about settling down with the right lady. If she makes it to the five-year mark he mentioned, that lady might just be Zoe.
Those were the juiciest morsels we unearthed during an initial listen to Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
Knowing Harry’s fanbase, there’ll be plenty of other revelations discovered as we continue to digest each track, but between wedding talk and a cute shoutout to his producer, I’m satisfied. For now.
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