{"id":533573,"date":"2026-03-13T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:20:08","slug":"tears-for-fears-rave-about-harry-styles-cover-of-hit-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533573\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears for Fears rave about Harry Styles\u2019 cover of hit song"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Styles<\/a>, welcome to your life: Tears for Fears is head over heels for your cover of \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The \u201cAperture\u201d singer stopped by BBC Radio 1\u2019s Live Lounge this week and performed several cuts off his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, and slipped in a 1985 new-wave tune by Tears for Fears.\n<\/p>\n

Styles\u2019 cover stays true to the classic by British duo Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, while also reflecting his own pop-rock flair \u2014 and for bonus points, it also features a pair of backing musicians on the trumpet and saxophone.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fans applauded the performance on social media and the YouTube video\u2019<\/a>s comments section, but perhaps the biggest compliment came from Tears for Fears themselves.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cLoving this cover by\u00a0@harrystyles<\/a>\u00a0for BBC Radio 1,\u201d the band exclaimed<\/a> in their Instagram post’s caption of a clip of the singer\u2019s rendition.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World\u201d was released in 1985 (a decade before Styles was born) and is considered Tears for Fears\u2019 signature song, reaching No. 1 in the U.S. and cracking the Top 20 in a dozen more countries around the world.\n<\/p>\n

Other greatest hits from the band\u2019s discography include \u201cMad World,\u201d \u201cShout,\u201d \u201cHead Over Heels,\u201d and \u201cSowing the Seeds of Love.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Styles is certainly not the first to cover \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Lorde recorded her own dark, moody version<\/a> for the soundtrack of the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In 2019, Weezer included the track on their self-titled cover album, and incredibly, were joined by Smith and Orzabal for a live performance at Coachella<\/a> that year.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Styles isn\u2019t even the first member of One Direction<\/a> to cover \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World\u201d; Niall Horan pulled off an impressive version of the song, which he seamlessly mashed up with his own \u201cIf You Leave Me\u201d when he headlined Electric Picnic in 2023.\n<\/p>\n

Take a listen to Horan’s version below (\u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World\u201d begins at the 3:00 mark).\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Styles will be the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live<\/a> this weekend. Last weekend, however, he hilariously crashed<\/a> Ryan Gosling’s opening monologue.\n<\/p>\n

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Sitting in the audience, Styles’ mere presence repeatedly distracted the actor as the camera kept panning away from him for the beloved pop-rock star. “Your coolness is becoming a bit of an issue,” Gosling complained to Styles.\n<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Project Hail Mary actor will get his payback this Saturday night?\n<\/p>\n