Harry Styles is addressing the “mission statement” of his new album, “Season 2 Weight Loss.”
The “Aperture” singer-songwriter is dropping his long-awaited studio album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. on Friday (March 6), and he spoke about the meaning behind the song in an interview with Zane Lowe.
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“It’s like the mission statement of the record in a lot of ways,” Harry said of “Season 2 Weight Loss.”
“It’s like, you know when there’s like a Netflix show and then it blows up and everyone comes back in the second season, everyone’s got a nutritionist and everyone’s got a trainer, and everyone suddenly looks amazing? Season 2 weight loss.”
“So, it’s like this idea of….this is the same character, but suddenly he has cheekbones. That was that was what it was for me is like I felt like I was coming back as like a stronger version of myself,” Harry continued.
“The song to me was like, whenever I used to have a break from touring, I would always grow a mustache, and then when I’d get back on the road, I would shave it off and there would be some feeling of like…this isn’t the version of me that people expect,” he explained.
“So I think the idea of it was like…less in a facial hair thought, but more in the idea of…if I go away and grow and change my relationship with this idea of feeling like I have to show up as this version of myself, will you take me as that? Or are you taking me because I show up as this version of myself that you’ve kind of desired from me in some way? That’s the ‘Do you love me now? Will I let you down? Holding out, hoping love will come around.’”
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Harry Styles explained the meaning behind a lot of the songs on the new album, including “Paint by Numbers,” “Season 2 Weight Loss,” “Coming Up Roses,” “Carla’s Song” and “American Girls.”