There\u2019s nothing divisive about this show<\/a>, though. The 32-year-old\u2019s latest music was heavily inspired by the community he found on dancefloors around the world, having decided he wanted to stop saying \u201cno\u201d and start saying \u201cyes\u201d. There\u2019s certainly a relaxed air about the whole evening \u2013 what little choreography there is from Styles and his two dancers is simple, playful. For the most part, he jives from one of three linked catwalks to the other, loose-limbed but on the beat.<\/p>\n He\u2019s the consummate entertainer, a charisma factory who lights the place up better than any pyrotechnics. Opening with \u201cAre You Listening Yet?\u201d feels tongue-in-cheek, given his fans\u2019 laser-beam focus on his every eyebrow twitch, but it also sets the tone for a heady, sweaty dance session. The reception to \u201cGolden\u201d, from his 2019 album Fine Line, is tremendous; the earth quakes underfoot as 80,000 pairs of feet leap up and down. Styles doesn\u2019t shy away from his pop hits, whether the summer thirst-quencher \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d or the exuberant \u201cMusic for a Sushi Restaurant\u201d from his Grammy-winning third album, Harry\u2019s House.<\/a> <\/p>\n But the emphasis remains heavily on his newest music, its understated tone on record shifting into something more euphoric and vital in the live sphere. \u201cDance No More\u201d is terrific, all squelchy synths and blasts of brass that precede Styles\u2019s now-iconic yelp: \u201cRespect your mother!\u201d His mum is here tonight \u2013 Styles pays tribute to the woman who signed him up to the X Factor without him knowing, and to his sister (also present), who drove him to his audition a stone\u2019s throw from this very stadium. <\/p>\n Styles also doesn\u2019t baulk from references to his boyband past, but there\u2019s a firm unspoken agreement between him and his fans to let him evolve. A string section tastefully covers One Direction favourites \u201cNight Changes\u201d and \u201cHistory\u201d, but that\u2019s it. Then it\u2019s on to a soaring rendition of \u201cAmerican Girls\u201d and a frenzied, buzzing \u201cReady, Steady, Go\u201d. He grins to himself during \u201cPop\u201d, a double entendre of a track that could be about the pressure he feels to satisfy his fans\u2026 or something else (\u201cFirst time tasting it\/ It\u2019s nice to mix two flavours\u201d).<\/p>\n There are lulls. Going from the Bridgerton-esque strings interlude into a segment where he fiddles around on a synth deck from the main stage feels a tad indulgent. It\u2019s better when he and his band relocate to the round, and a live airing of 2019\u2019s \u201cTreat People with Kindness\u201d gets a remix acknowledging its lineage from Talking Heads and Paul Simon. Buzzy dance track \u201cAperture\u201d is euphoric, the whole stadium joined in his chant of \u201cwe belong together\u201d. It\u2019s no mean feat to turn a cold concrete stadium into a warm, communal space, but Styles does it. That\u2019s just how good he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-735530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dance](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/02_PHAM_LDN_NT1_HS2_5580.jpg\")
Dance more: Styles does a lap at Wembley Stadium (Anthony Pham)<\/p>\n