Sombr<\/a> \u2014 and concluded that the parts of the job he doesn\u2019t like are best left to them.<\/p>\nWhich of course you can look at as a textbook fourth-album play by a survivor of the bruising teen-idol complex \u2014 Styles\u2019 contribution to a reckoning-with-celebrity canon that includes Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201c4\u201d (to name a high point) and Justin Timberlake\u2019s \u201cMan of the Woods\u201d (to name a low).<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, what a gift it is to be noticed,\u201d he sings in \u201cPaint By Numbers,\u201d one of a handful of acoustic ballads that pepper \u201cKiss All the Time\u2019s\u201d thumping dance tracks, \u201cBut it\u2019s nothing to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, Harry, if you say so.<\/p>\n
Still, there\u2019s something genuine-seeming about Styles\u2019 longing to retreat. He\u2019s always been a paradox: a source of endless charisma about whom it\u2019s virtually impossible to discern anything concrete. With his first three albums of glittery throwback soft rock, the rap on Styles among a certain class of tastemaker was that he\u2019d cultivated a squishy woke-heartthrob persona by sanding the rough edges of the transgressors who preceded him.<\/p>\n
And indeed Styles remains strangely blank, as in the music video for the new record\u2019s \u201cAmerican Girls\u201d \u2014 a knowing if cutesy riff on showbiz artificiality \u2014 and in an excruciatingly dull interview with Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe.<\/p>\n
Yet the singer\u2019s pivot to club music feels like an honest solution to the problem of his reluctance (or his inability) to fill in a picture of himself. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit complicated when they put an image in your head and now you\u2019re stuck with it,\u201d he sings in \u201cPaint by Numbers,\u201d which pretty handily demonstrates how lightweight the introspection is here. That\u2019s one of the easier-to-parse lyrics on \u201cKiss All the Time\u201d; more often, he\u2019s singing about getting your feet wet or about \u201ca baby sleeping upon a candy bar\u201d \u2014 and doing it with his voice washed in reverb, as though he\u2019s just one more instrument in a mix meant to rouse not to illuminate.<\/p>\n
Working with his trusty producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, Styles builds gorgeously detailed grooves like the blissed-out gospel-house \u201cAperture\u201d; \u201cAre You Listening Yet?\u201d (Talking Heads gone indie-sleaze); and \u201cSeason 2 Weight Loss,\u201d which places drummer Tom Skinner\u2019s live playing amid an intricate latticework of vintage-synth blips. Throughout the LP, the objects of Styles\u2019 admiration \u2014 New Order, middle-era Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem \u2014 are almost comically obvious. But the obviousness is kind of endearing.<\/p>\n
Styles\u2019 submission to the beat on \u201cKiss All the Time\u201d will be difficult to maintain as the pop-star machinery revs inevitably to life behind it. Just two days after the album dropped, Netflix released a concert film that opens with Styles addressing the audience in murmuring voice-over; in May he\u2019ll launch a series of extended residencies in a handful of cities around the world (including New York, where he\u2019s set to play no fewer than 30 nights at Madison Square Garden).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still eager to see him try.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One widely held view of Harry Styles is that he\u2019s a cool guy who makes boring music. What if he\u2019s actually a boring guy who makes cool music? That\u2019s the prospect raised by the 32-year-old pop star\u2019s new album, \u201cKiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.,\u201d which came out Friday and immediately racked up more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2320149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Harry-Styles-looks-to-get-lost-on-Kiss-All-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320150,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320148\/revisions\/2320150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}