Harry Styles is explaining it all.<\/p>\n
In May of last year, the singer was spotted among the crowd<\/a> in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome when Pope Leo XIV was elected the new leader of the Catholic Church<\/a>. <\/p>\n In a viral photo that was posted of him online<\/a>, Styles was seen walking through the crowd wearing a pair of dark sunglasses, a black coat and a hat that said, \u201cTechno is my boyfriend.\u201d <\/p>\n In an interview Jan. 23 on BBC Radio 1<\/a>, Styles told Greg James that he just so happened to be getting a haircut nearby.<\/p>\n \u201cI was getting a haircut in Rome and then I just heard all these people start shouting, \u2018Habemus Papam!\u2019\u201d he said, referencing the Latin phrase, \u201cWe have a Pope!\u201d<\/p>\n While getting his hair done, Styles said he noticed that there was a lot of commotion outside.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople just running down the street, so the guy cutting my hair stops cutting my hair, and he was like, \u2018Habemus Papam! There\u2019s a new Pope! There\u2019s a new Pope!\u2019 So then we finished up, and then I was like, oh, I\u2019m like five minutes walk from there, so I walked over there. It was wild,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n James joked that if Styles were in the U.K., then people would\u2019ve been chanting his name instead, which made Styles laugh.<\/p>\n However, the former One Direction band member said he was just curious to know what was happening outside while he was getting his hair done. <\/p>\n \u201cI was like, who is this, getting all this attention?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Styles is currently getting ready to embark on his \u201cTogether Together\u201d tour<\/a>, in support of his upcoming album, \u201cKiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Styles will do 50 shows across seven cities, including just one location in the United States \u2014 New York City. There, he\u2019ll do a 30-date residency at Madison Square Garden, which will start in August and end in October. <\/p>\n