{"id":342817,"date":"2026-03-12T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342817\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:02:09","slug":"harry-styles-covers-tears-for-fears-in-the-bbc-live-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/342817\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Covers Tears For Fears In The BBC Live Lounge"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, big-deal pop star Harry Styles released his long-awaited new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/a>. The world was really hoping that record would be more interesting than it is. Nevertheless! Styles is in full promo-blitz mode right now. He performed at the BRITs<\/a>. He played a Manchester show<\/a> that streamed live on Netflix. He dropped in on Ryan Gosling’s SNL monologue<\/a> ahead of this weekend, when he’ll be the show’s host and musical guest. And now he’s covering a Tears For Fears classic in the BBC Live Lounge. <\/p>\n

Harry Styles is no stranger to the Live Lounge, and he loves using that cover-song convention to display his tastes. In the past, Styles has used that format to cover Fleetwood Mac<\/a>, Wet Leg<\/a>, and both Lizzo and Paul McCartney<\/a>. In his most recent session, Styles took on Tears For Fears’ 1985 megahit “Everybody Wants To Rule The World<\/a>,” a song that’s been everywhere lately. That song continues to show up on one billion soundtracks, and it just got a very prominent needledrop in Marty Supreme. So many people have already performed or recorded that song that we ran a Gotcha Covered column <\/a>on it back in 2017.<\/p>\n

Harry Styles doesn’t really have any new ideas about what to do with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” but he sings it just fine. His version has a bunch of horn action at the end. In the Live Lounge, Styles and his band also performed the Kiss All The Time tracks “Aperture<\/a>,” “American Girls,” “Dance No More,” and “Carla’s Song.” Below, watch his “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” cover and the video for the Tears For Fears original, and then I guess stick around for the other Styles performances if you feel like it.<\/p>\n

Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally\u00a0is out now on Erskine\/Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, big-deal pop star Harry Styles released his long-awaited new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-342817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}