“I was in Nashville, on my day off, and we went into the studio just to play around a little bit. “The next song we’re going to play, I actually wrote in 2017 while I was on tour for the first album,” Styles tells the NPR cohort. So, when the boy-bander-turned-rock-troubadour pauses during his Tiny Desk performance before “Watermelon Sugar” to offer a nugget of backstory, as brief as it comes, it’s a welcomed look into the secret world of someone always on display. Aside from mildly gossipy on-stage banter to give fill time while his audiences recompose themselves, the details of his daily goings are left up for interpretation, and the occasional tabloid cover or internet sleuthing. Despite being one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Styles’ creative process, and personal life, is rarely divulged outside of his songs.
His new album, Harry’s House, is sharing records with The Beatles, soundtracking Apple Music ads, and catalyzing a sprawling, mega-world tour that begins with two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium. The second song he performed, “Watermelon Sugar,” would climb to number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart a handful of months later.įast-forward to 2022 and Harry Styles is otherworldly. He appears to be in a good mood, presumably delighted by the chance to play an intimate show amid a grueling American tour in support of his recently released 2019 sophomore record, Fine Line. Styles, all grown up and long removed from his days in One Direction, rocks a get-up headlined by a baby blue knit sweater with a yellow duckling hatching from an egg stitched in the center. Styles’ performance, one of the last recorded in the nation’s capital before COVID-19 hit less than a month after, is one of the program’s most-watched videos, racking up 20 million views, as of June 2022. Boilen, the creator and longtime host of NPR’s All Songs Considered, catalyzed the series back in 2008 and his personal work space has now hosted over 600 concerts. Early in the morning on February 25, 2020, Harry Styles sat on a stool behind Bob Boilen’s desk and played four songs for an NPR Tiny Desk Concert at the radio network’s Washington, D.C.
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