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“He married a German lady, so I have a German cousin. “My great uncle lives here,” Styles says of Hamburg.

(Back in New York, after surprising fans at a Spotify event for his new album, he asked me my thoughts on David Crosby’s most recent album, which he loved.) But he’s still as affable and charming as ever, remembering details from small talk we had in all the other cities where I had been (professionally) stalking him, and proving earnestly curious about how I was going to spend my time in Hamburg and how magazine deadlines work. He’s a bit more Zen, even stoic, than he once was that goofy, class-clown energy he exuded when the world first fell in love with him in One Direction 12 years ago has naturally diminished. He maintains eye contact as his thoughts unfurl in his often slow, British drawl. Styles is a kind of millennial anomaly: He plugs his phone in across the room, never once sneaking a glance for a rogue notification. I kind of felt like, ‘All right, I’ve seen how crazy it can get.’ And I think there was something about it where I was … not terrified, but I just needed a minute. “After One Direction, I didn’t expect to ever experience anything new. “We came offstage, and I went into my dressing room and just wanted to sit by myself for a minute,” he tells me, two months later. When he played it, the crowd exploded in a way even Styles had never experienced.

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The crowd that May night covered Long Island’s UBS Arena in feathers and glitter and tears - a ritualistic skin shedding of sorts whenever Styles comes to town.įans noticed something different about the encore: Styles didn’t end with his usual closer, “Kiwi” instead, he opted to finish the night with a second performance of his new single “As It Was,” his dance-through-the-tears pandemic reflection on isolation and change. It wasn’t just any show it was the first time he performed his third and soon-to-be-biggest album, Harry’s House, in its entirety. On a Friday night in New York, Harry Styles put on a show.

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