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Happy Harry Styles Album Release Day<\/a> to all who celebrate! To accompany the release of his first album in four years, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Styles has debuted its second single, \u201cAmerican Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n The music video for the track, which dropped at noon ET on Friday, is filled with green screens, high-speed drives, motorcycle rides and an array of desert explosions. Opening with Styles walking onto set with a motorcycle helmet in hand, the video follows the pop star as he and his fictional production crew film a series of action sequences. Online, some fans are also theorizing that the music video for \u201cAmerican Girls\u201d references<\/a> two of his One Direction-era music videos, \u201cKiss You\u201d and \u201cSteal My Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n While the music video draws inspiration from big-budget, high-energy action films, the song itself is actually more somber. In a recent interview with Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe<\/a>, Styles opened up about how feelings of loneliness informed the playful-sounding track.<\/p>\n On the upbeat \u201cAmerican Girls,\u201d which features a funk-forward bassline, Styles reflects on watching his friends fall in love and settle down with American women, as he sings, \u201c\u2018I\u2019ve known you for ages,\u2019 it\u2019s all that I\u2019ve heard\/ My friends are in love with American girls\/ I\u2019ve seen it in stages all over the world\/ My friends are in love with American girls.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe song to me is like, it\u2019s actually quite a lonely song in a lot of ways,\u201d Styles told Lowe. \u201cI watched my three closest friends get married, and actually seeing them trust in something and risk something to find something truly fulfilling in a way that isn\u2019t as, like, shiny and on paper as exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n For Styles, the song serves as a reminder of sorts. Seeing his friends tie the knot made him introspective about his own life and what he wants out of it.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018American Girls\u2019 is actually about watching them get married, and there just is a magic when you find the right person that you want to be with,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like being truly vulnerable with someone, sharing a life with someone like that. Having the time to stop and assess all of it and really look at my life from a bird\u2019s-eye view and go, \u2018What do I actually want in my life?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Styles added, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be the guy who\u2019s on his own. I want to be fulfilled, and I want to be in great relationships with people. I want to have great friendships with people. I want a family. I want these things. It just allowed me to go, \u2018OK, what do I have to do to create space to allow these things to happen?\u2019 I can\u2019t just expect them to just happen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of Styles\u2019s fans are also viewing the song\u2019s title as a playful jab<\/a> at the \u201cLeave America\u201d chant that emerged during the international leg of his Love On Tour. Fans famously shouted the \u201cleave America\u201d<\/a> lyric from his track \u201cAs It Was,\u201d as an attempt to discourage Styles from spending so much time in the United States and to instead return to the U.K.<\/p>\n In crafting a song about the idea of settling down with an American girl himself, Styles seems to be doubling down on the fact that he enjoys his time in the United States. Thousands of lucky American girls will also be able to see Styles live when he kicks off his 30-show residency, which runs from August through October, at New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden as part of his Together, Together world tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n