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\n This picture should be funny. But it\u2019s not. It\u2019s serious.
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At one point during their extended conversation about Harry Styles\u2019s new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/a>., Q host Tom Power asks Styles<\/a> about the now-infamous photo of him in Rome when Pope Leo XIV was elected. \u201cI don\u2019t know your spiritual background and it\u2019s actually none of my business,\u201d Power begins, teeing the singer up for a softball question where he can compare live music to spirituality. Before Power can finish his question, however, Styles leans forward with a shit-eating grin and goes, \u201cNo! It\u2019s not!\u201d with a big laugh.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve seen this attitude from him on this press tour before. His first big Stateside interview wasn\u2019t with any late-night host but instead vlogger and comedian Brittany Broski<\/a>. When she asked him about fashion choices from the 2010s he regrets, like any good millennial, Styles rues the days of skinny jeans. \u201cCan I offer one into the ring?\u201d Broski asks. Styles goes \u201cOh, please,\u201d before abruptly changing his mind. \u201cActually \u2026 no! No, actually. No,\u201d he says with a snap. Laughing along with the rest of her crew, he adds, \u201cI\u2019m a serious person and I don\u2019t deserve it.\u201d It\u2019s fantastic when Styles talks back \u2014 a brief reminder of what latent British wit lies dormant in him as he goes on his 12th spiel about how clubbing is about communal love. Toward the end of his One Night in Manchester<\/a> performance, Styles tells his audience he\u2019s going to leave them with one more song \u2026 or maybe two \u2026 \u201cBut maybe one,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d He gets hit with an immediate wave of boos. \u201cWow,\u201d he says, moping around the stage, \u201cI\u2019ve been away for three years. Come back, first show, get booed.\u201d<\/p>\n Styles is funny. He\u2019s been funny. He will continue to be funny, hopefully, despite his seeming desperate to bury this part of him. Sure, there\u2019s a broad levity to his music videos \u2014 look at him dance, look at him fly \u2014 but when Styles is most interesting, 100 percent of the time, is when he\u2019s being a wry little brat, which he does with a great degree of finesse. Styles wants to be silly. He wants to run around the stage like a child. Why is he sitting down for hour-long interviews in which he continues to speak in vague platitudes and refuses to say what or who he is talking about.<\/a> When Styles told Broski he\u2019s a \u201cserious person,\u201d he\u2019s so obviously kidding, but he can\u2019t stop doing press like a serious person. Not to go full new-media circuit on him<\/a>, but he needs to be doing Subway Takes; he needs to be on Chicken Shop Date; he needs to be put in situations that let him goof off a little. There are few longer hours available on the internet right now than his conversation with Zane Lowe<\/a>. The two of them are practically having a \u201cspeaking quietly\u201d\u2013off discussing how Styles learned to take responsibility for when he does something wrong. (What did he do wrong? He\u2019s not telling.) Styles\u2019s music does not require such a meticulous deep dive. He is not a modern philosopher. He doesn\u2019t really want to be serious, it seems, so why pretend for the sake of our enjoyment? Especially when no one really is enjoying it? Meanwhile, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. wracks up lukewarm reviews<\/a> and scathing tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n I never thought I\u2019d be writing these words, but we have never needed Saturday Night Live<\/a> more than we do this week. It\u2019s time to put Styles in a costume. It\u2019s time to let him break onscreen<\/a>. It\u2019s time to let him do a monologue in which he\u2019s being kind of a little bitch in the best possible way. Styles can take his art seriously for all he wants, but that doesn\u2019t mean he should sacrifice the humor that\u2019s always been latent to his appeal as a celebrity. He knows it\u2019s a laugh when he calls himself serious, but he can\u2019t stop himself from doing it anyway.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This picture should be funny. But it\u2019s not. It\u2019s serious. 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