It’s Friday and King Harry Styles has shared with us one mighty treat to take you into the weekend, releasing the music video for new tune As It Was.
And because the new song wasn’t enough, the singer had to go and strip down to his sparkly red pants and dance around a hall.
Harold Styles, you diabolical.
Knowing exactly the kind of response such a move would elicit from fans, you bet your sweet bippy a good, large chunk of us are fanning ourselves down at Harry’s display for the first single from his upcoming 13-track album Harry’s House.
Sauntering out onto the clip’s set like it’s nobody’s business, Harry wore a red coat and resplendently-sparkly ensemble as he interacted with a dancer in a matching blue number. The pair of them danced around a spinning plate while Harry also slid around a giant hall and jigged around a rainy Barbican.
Then, which seems to be what is getting a lot of punters hot under the collar, stripped off said sparkly outfit we will no doubt find on Zara’s racks next week, to his red briefs.
From comments ranging from: ‘I never thought I’d get to see Harry styles in little red underwear. Feeling blessed and overwhelmed,’ to the capped-up delight of: ‘HAPPY HARRY STYLES IN UNDERWEAR DAY!!!!’ the internet was both shaken and stirred.
As per.
Harry worked with Ukrainian director Tanu Muino on the video and praised her and the team for continuing to film with him as conflict broke out in their home country.
Speaking on Heart Breakfast this morning, he told Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden: ‘It was a two-day shoot and on the second day was kind of the start of everything in Ukraine and she was absolutely incredible and her DP (director of photography) Nikita (Kuzmenko) as well was amazing and they wanted to keep shooting.
‘I have to say a massive thank you to them for their strength and all the love that they put into the video, and I think that comes across in the video.
‘I obviously am sending them the very best and everyone that’s there.’
Harry also spoke to BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball about finally releasing the single, as he said Harry’s House is the ‘favourite thing’ he has made so far.
Speaking about the album, which is released on May 20, he told the presenter: ‘I’m really, really proud of it. And I think obviously all of us went through something during the pandemic and everything.
‘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.
‘Being able to put a little more, I guess, just adjust the balance of my life a little bit, gave me a chance to make music from a different place than I think I’d been making it from in the past and I felt a lot freer and a lot less afraid of anything.
‘I think that’s a really exciting place to make music from, so more than ever before I’d say the reward has been in the process for me, so I feel very much like I’ve kind of achieved everything I want to achieve with this album already so everything from this point on just feels very exciting.’
He also revealed the voice heard at the beginning of As It Was is that of his goddaughter Ruby Winston, who is the daughter of Ben Winston – the executive producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden.
Harry released his self-titled debut album in 2017 and his second offering, Fine Line, in 2019.
