{"id":472849,"date":"2026-03-13T05:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472849\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:41:10","slug":"watch-harry-styles-cover-tears-for-fears-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472849\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Harry Styles cover Tears For Fears’ ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Styles<\/a> has covered Tears For Fears<\/a>\u2018 \u2018Everybody Wants To Rule The World\u2019. Watch below.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Harry Styles \u2013 \u2018Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally\u2019 review: pop superstar lets the light in<\/a><\/p>\n

The pop star performed a take on the band\u2019s 1985 single for BBC<\/a> Radio 1\u2019s Live Lounge today (Thursday March 12). He also played \u2018Aperture\u2019<\/a> and other cuts from his new album, \u2018Kiss All Time Time. Disco, Occasionally\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Styles\u2019 and his live band\u2019s soaring rendition of Tears For Fears\u2019 new wave and synth-pop classic remained faithful to the original, and contained flourishes of brass, in keeping with the style of his new record.<\/p>\n

The singer\u2019s five-song setlist was completed by airings of \u2018Carla\u2019s Song\u2019, \u2018Dance No More\u2019 and latest single \u2018American Girls\u2019<\/a>. You can listen to the session in full via BBC Sounds<\/a>, or watch the videos here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Styles has previously covered Wet Leg\u2019s \u2018Wet Dream\u2019<\/a>, Lizzo\u2019s \u2018Juice\u2019<\/a> and Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u2018The Chain\u2019<\/a> in Radio 1\u2019s Live Lounge.<\/p>\n

Last Friday (March 6), he performed \u2018Kiss All The Time\u2026\u2019 in full at a special \u2018One Night Only\u2019 concert in Manchester<\/a>. The show was recorded for a new Netflix special<\/a>, and featured an encore of hits including \u2018As It Was\u2019 and \u2018Watermelon Sugar\u2019. He gifted 50 pairs of tickets for the phone-free gig to pupils at his former school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis album is out in the world now, and it means so, so much to me,\u201d he told the audience. \u201cI hope that maybe one day it might mean a little something to you. I hope you have fun with it, I hope you have good times to it, I hope maybe one day it helps you through something hard as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Styles will embark on his seven-city \u2018Together, Together\u2019 tour<\/a> this spring. The trek boasts a record-breaking 12-night stint at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium<\/a>\u00a0and a huge 30-date residency in New York.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0a four-star review<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0described \u2018Kiss All The Time\u2026\u2019 as \u201can album that you\u2019ll really want to spend a lot of time with, letting all its layers envelope you\u201d. It read: \u201cIt\u2019s the most exploratory album of his career so far, trying out new things and steering his ship in new directions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Styles gave \u2018Aperture\u2019 its live debut at the BRITs 2026<\/a> last month. He recently explained that follow-up single \u2018American Girls\u2019 was about watching his friends get married<\/a>, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s actually quite a lonely song in a lot of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the singer made a cameo appearance during Ryan Gosling\u2019s opening monologue on Saturday Night Live last week<\/a>, ahead of Styles pulling double duty on the show this weekend.<\/p>\n

In other news, Styles has explained the reasoning behind hosting residencies in multiple cities instead of embarking on a full global tour<\/a>. The singer has remembered how watching Radiohead perform in Berlin had inspired him to play live again<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n

He has also reflected on the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne<\/a>. \u201cFull transparency, it\u2019s like something that I, even the idea of talking about it, I struggle with that a little bit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Styles has covered Tears For Fears\u2018 \u2018Everybody Wants To Rule The World\u2019. Watch below. READ MORE:\u00a0Harry Styles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}