{"id":424814,"date":"2026-01-23T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:36:10","slug":"harry-styles-says-new-single-is-comebacks-perfect-little-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424814\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles says new single is comeback&#8217;s &#8216;perfect little bow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alys Davies &amp; Pete AllisonBBC Newsbeat<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768413432_735_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0270da20-f839-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"GC Images via Getty Images Harry Styles smiles in front of a microphone on a stand onstage as he holds a Gibson Les Paul guitar while wearing a striped green, black and brown top, with background bokeh behind, during a gig in New York in 2022.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>GC Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Harry Styles has announced 50 shows across seven cities including six at London&#8217;s Wembley Stadium<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An almost four-year wait for Harry Styles&#8217; new music is over, but he&#8217;s been far from elusive in that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Spotted running marathons in Berlin and Tokyo and watching on as a new pope is confirmed in the Vatican, there are few places one of the world&#8217;s biggest artists can go without drawing attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">But speaking to the BBC about new single Aperture, Harry says he has no intention of locking himself away from &#8220;the human experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;When I first started touring, we spent a lot of time in hotel rooms,&#8221; he <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002r4n3\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told BBC Radio 2&#8217;s Scott Mills<\/a> earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I think you can choose to shut yourself off from the world and it&#8217;s been so wonderful for me to stay in the universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Harry&#8217;s set to go global again in 2026, announcing 50 shows across seven cities &#8211; including six at London&#8217;s Wembley Stadium and 30 at New York&#8217;s Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His Together, Together tour will also visit Amsterdam, S\u00e3o Paulo, Mexico City, Melbourne and Sydney between May and December.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768413432_735_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/652eba90-f7c3-11f0-803a-fbdecc9846db.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Getty Images A woman holds her phone camera up high above her head to take a photo of a Harry Styles &quot;We Belong Together&quot; poster on a wall in Soho, London.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Posters teasing Harry&#8217;s comeback appeared in cities across the world last week, before his music and tour were announced<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Harry&#8217;s not just been running marathons, he&#8217;s also used his time away to take in plenty of gigs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002r4n5\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told BBC Radio 1&#8217;s Greg James<\/a> being in and amongst live audiences &#8220;led to the music he&#8217;s making&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been about getting on the other side of the audience experience,&#8221; he said, describing seeing American dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem live as &#8220;a reminder of why it&#8217;s special&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Having had so many years on-stage, the last couple of years allowed me to be a real audience member and be in the crowd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Harry will be supported at his London shows by Shania Twain, which he said is &#8220;a full circle&#8221; having listened to her music in his mum&#8217;s car as a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;(Shania) is someone who musically has been in my life for a really long time,&#8221; he told Radio 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Special guests in other cities will include Jamie XX, Jorja Smith and Robyn, with pre-sale and general tickets going on sale later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Aperture is the first single from Harry&#8217;s fourth album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, set for release on 6 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">But the song was the record&#8217;s finishing touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We had most of the album done,&#8221; he told Radio 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Getting this song at the end, it was when we were feeling freest and really having a lot of fun at that point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It felt like the mission statement of what the album was about, this perfect little bow on it, and it was like: &#8216;Oh, the record&#8217;s finished&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The NME said Aperture signalled an &#8220;exciting new direction&#8221; for the singer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/track\/harry-styles-aperture-single-review-3924978\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a four-star review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">While the Independent, which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/reviews\/harry-styles-aperture-meaning-lyrics-review-b2906185.html\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">awarded the same score<\/a>, suggested he&#8217;d followed artists like Chappell Roan, Charli XCX and Rosal\u00eda, who&#8217;ve all released &#8220;songs that stray from traditional structure or form&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The three-time Grammy Award-winner <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c801pe4l49do\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">began teasing his comeback<\/a> with the message &#8220;we belong together&#8221; in December, which it transpires is a prominent lyric in Aperture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Having become a global star in One Direction, Harry launched his solo career in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His first album and single were both UK number ones, while his record Harry&#8217;s House won a Grammy and a Brit Award after its release in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768413432_735_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1e340290-f7bd-11f0-a422-4ba8a094a8fa.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"BBC Newsbeat banner with the words &quot;BBC Newsbeat: Listen on sounds&quot;.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays &#8211; or listen back here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alys Davies &amp; Pete AllisonBBC Newsbeat GC Images via Getty Images Harry Styles has announced 50 shows across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-424814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}