{"id":187229,"date":"2026-04-06T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:48:07","slug":"harry-styles-gave-us-the-album-of-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187229\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Gave Us the Album of the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I\u2019m Wesley Morris and it\u2019s springtime, y\u2019all. One of my favorite things about spring is a thing I cannot control, which is some artist puts out an album and it just becomes the thing that I listen to for, like, the entire season. Last spring, my album was this thing called \u201cHorror\u201d by this wonderful singer and songwriter named Bartees Strange. I listened to that all spring. I took it everywhere I went. And this spring, my spring album, Harry Styles. \u201cKiss All the Tme, Disco Occasionally,\u201d best title of the year, already. \u201cWe belong together.\u201d \u2013 These songs sound so good at this time of year to just be running around New York on your bike, getting off the subway, going for walks. In part because Harry Styles is, at this point, a very famous person. I\u2019m assuming he\u2019s got a lot of responsibilities and there are expectations on him to like, do something important, especially because, you know, the world is in the mess that it\u2019s in. And he\u2019s kind of like, you can dance now. It\u2019s OK. \u201cMy friends are in love with American girls.\u201d \u2013 He doesn\u2019t want you thinking about what he\u2019s saying. I\u2019m not saying the lyrics aren\u2019t important, but they\u2019re also not deep. And what I love about that is, like, it frees you to just, like, have a bodily response to what is happening on the songs themselves. I just think that this is a rarity in, in male-oriented popular music right now. Harry Styles\u2019s white, North American peers are suffering. You know, take Justin Bieber. Y\u2019all saw him come to the Grammys and perform in boxer shorts, a guitar, and one of those loop jammies and, you know, I was convinced I felt something coming out of this man, including suffering, pain. He was bringing his therapy to us. And, you know, I\u2019m here for that a lot of the time, but not with my spring album. I don\u2019t want your therapy in the spring. Like, Justin is trying to tell us something and I want an artist, for just a little bit, to tell me nothing. Just that he wants to kiss all the time. That\u2019s it. And disco occasionally. These songs are like 12 beautiful little flowers. They\u2019re not supposed to last forever. They\u2019re just supposed to last for the season and six weeks, two months, that is a perfect amount of time for these songs to just blossom in your ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Wesley Morris and it\u2019s springtime, y\u2019all. One of my favorite things about spring is a thing I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37334,33182,2538,9,24,55,54,56,75046,27202],"class_list":{"0":"post-187229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-harry-styles","9":"tag-justin-bieber","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-rem-music-group","17":"tag-wesley-morris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}