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L.S. Dunes (MCR, Coheed, Thursday, Circa Survive) Dissect Their Debut Album Past Lives Track by Track: Exclusive
The supergroup's members offer insight into the LP's 11 tracks
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Photo by Mark Beemer Words by Jon Hadusek
November 11, 2022
Supergroup L.S. Dunes have just dropped their highly anticipated debut album Past Lives. The LP’s release consummates a five-headed collaboration between like-minded musicians who are cut from a similar cloth: My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero, Coheed and Cambria’s Travis Stever, Circa Survive’s Anthony Green, and Thursday’s Tim Payne and Tucker Rule.
With such a wealth of combined talent, it’s no surprise that the 11 songs on Past Lives are a tour-de-force of post-hardcore. The album is especially rewarding for those who are familiar with each band member’s past work. On each song, you can catch sonic idiosyncrasies and easter eggs that inevitably trigger a pang of nostalgia. For example, Iero’s catchy chord progressions will perk the ears the MCR faithful. Meanwhile, Anthony Green’s impassioned vocals make Past Lives mandatory listening for Circa Survive fans.
The collective consciousness tends to pigeonhole supergroups as lesser projects — a distraction from each member’s day job, half-baked collabs, etc. — but L.S. Dunes put in the time and work to make their debut album more substantial. Just take it from the band members themselves, who offered up a track-by-track breakdown of Past Lives exclusively for Heavy Consequence. Their remarks reveal just how much care and effort went into the songwriting and recording process.
Stream the entire Past Lives album and read the track-by-track breakdown from L.S. Dunes’ individual members below.
“2022”
“2022” is probably the most personal song that I’ve ever written in my life. Every time I get to the verses of that song, I get a lump in my throat like I said too much. I never want a song to hurt or worry anyone, but they also cannot be a place that I hide in. Working on yourself and getting better is a slow process. “2022” is a reflection on the patience that’s required of a person during the process of recovery, when you’re conditioned towards the hunt for immediate gratification. There are moments when you’re fighting for your life, moments when you don’t think you can keep going. In those moments, I always need to tell someone — because that support you get from people who believe in you can make a huge difference. — Anthony Green
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“Antibodies”
“Antibodies” started as the first group of riffs that I sent in. It was also the first group of riffs that were sent around in general. After receiving a joint text from everyone, I decided to sit right down and work on a riff. I have a tuning that I have used on a few songs in the past; I tune the low E up to F. It makes for a really cool approach at playing the low E open while barring the rest of the strings. I went straight to that tuning. I wanted to send something unique but still catchy. I respect all the guys so much as musicians and wanted this to work, so mentally, I was like.. “You gotta send something good!” No pressure, right? As everyone added their parts to the song, it was clear we had a chemistry. Eventually, this would also be the first Past Lives song that Anthony added vocals to. Which blew our minds. And here we are. — Travis Stever
"Grey Veins"
I stumbled onto the intro bass line for “Grey Veins” one night, but I I was playing it in the upper register. It was this really quirky little riff and I actually thought it might be a bit too left of center to even bring to the band. I had already convinced myself that they’d hate it, but I figured I’d send it anyway just to see if it sparked any ideas.
I remember immediately after sending it in the group text, probably at like 3 a.m., everyone reacting to it with such excitement. We had all been at the edges of our seats waiting for ideas to be sent and everyone jumped on it immediately. Tucker added the initial verse beat, and then Frank came out of nowhere with this absolutely perfect verse/chorus progression and it actually blew my mind. Hearing Travis’ leads and verse melodies, then Anthony’s vocal ideas and lyrics really brought this little idea to such crazy places. It’s honestly still hard for me to wrap my head around. — Tim Payne
“Like Forever”
This was one of the first ideas I sent out to the band. Everything was still so new to all of us and we hadn’t really fallen into an actual writing process at that point, so I honestly wasn’t sure how the other guys would approach this. I had a loose structure, but this was really more of a collection of bass lines than anything else. Writing on bass can be tough, because I’ll hear certain drum beats, dynamic shifts and melodies in my head, but that doesn’t always translate to others. And if I’ve learned anything in life, it’s that verbalizing music ideas is literally impossible.
So, you just have to put things out there and have faith in the people you’re writing with. The craziest thing is that all of the drums, guitars, and vocals were a million times better than anything I had imagined! It was a huge moment in the band for me and really allowed me to let my guard down and just throw ideas out there, knowing and trusting that we somehow already had a collective voice even after only a few weeks. — Tim Payne
“Blender”
This was a riff that I had been kicking around a little while, never quite sure where it fit in with any project that I had going on. I could never quite finish it. I think when I don’t know where a song belongs, it’s hard for me to lace it all the way up. But when L.S. Dunes came into the picture, I brought it to the band and it just fit in so nicely. Anthony was never scared to sing over anything, which is such a rare and exciting quality to have in a singer. Then Tucker and Tim backed the riff so flawlessly that it started to take on a whole world. When I hear this song now, I always think of Tucker saying, “It feels like speeding down a desert highway at dusk,” and it transports me immediately. The finishing touch was Travis hitting all the perfect harmonies on those guitar lines. He really is a master at that. — Frank Iero
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“Past Lives”
I love this song. I love the lyrics. It’s one of my favorite drum-songs on the record because there’s basically no cymbal hits, besides hi-hats, until the end. The riffs on guitar and bass were so infectious to me that my job was to not step on them. It became very apparent, very quickly that I wanted to do that robotic, old-school, punk hi-hat to follow the strumming energy of the guitars. The verses are haunting and I wanted to come up with a beat that was just as jarring. I had been working on this pattern between the kick and floor tom with a sort of quirky hi-hat pattern that spoke to me right from the start because of the song’s frantic energy. I felt the bridge needed to be super sparse tom hits to give the listener, and myself, a much needed break to catch your breath. The end is my favorite part because it all hits the fan, hitting as hard as I can, like it’s the last song on earth. — Tucker Rule
“It Takes Time”
Easily, one of the coolest songs that I’ve ever been a part of. Writing this right now reminds me just how lucky I am to be a part of it. This was the last song I recorded. A lot of the song drum-wise is exactly the same, other than the “B” part of the verse and the bridge, as our first demos we did over a year and a half ago for it. The interplay between the drums and bass in the verse brings me an infinite amount of joy. I couldn’t be happier with how the bridge turned out. Will Yip (Producer) is also a ripping drummer. We worked very closely on coming up with a super cool beat for the bridge that hadn’t even been written yet musically. I trusted Will’s intuition and damn, was he spot on. Anthony’s vocal performance on this gives me chills. The dude is endlessly talented and I’m so grateful to walk the earth next to him and the rest of these amazing human beings. — Tucker Rule
“Bombsquad”
I heard that intro riff and knew the drum part had to be sparse to accentuate how damn cool that guitar part is. There’s a lot of space in the song, so I wanted to make sure the snare sounded massive. I used this solid steel 8×14 drum made by Greg Keplinger. There’s a stamp inside the drum that says “Not Fragile” and I think you can hear why on the intro.
Fast forward to Tim adding this colossal bass line that literally made my arm hair stick up. Anthony and Will Yip came with the bridge which is one of my favorite parts of the record vocally, as Anthony sounds possessed in the best way possible. Big drums, big riffs, and big love for this song! — Tucker Rule
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“Grifter”
The group of riffs I sent to everyone for this one was all based on the verse portion. The rest of the stuff was all to favor that part. Will and Anthony did some really cool stuff with arranging the riffs to make what was once a bridge, a chorus. It really brought out unique qualities in the song. My verse part is a strange open D-riff. It’s going to be lot of fun live, as it’s challenging technically. I especially love the interplay of the bass and guitars in the verse. Above all of it, there are the catchy ear worm melodies that Frank and Anthony added to really draw you in. — Travis Stever
“Permanent Rebellion”
I love being in a studio making records. It’s the ultimate high for me. I remember we were doing pre-production in NJ over the summer before heading out to PA that fall to record with Will Yip and this was just a song that popped in my head while we were demoing and fine-tuning all the other stuff for the record. It popped in and wouldn’t leave and every time we had a free minute or a break that day, I would starting playing and working on this song. Tucker was the first to ask, “What is that?” To which my reply is always, “I have no idea,” hahaha. And so, maybe 30 minutes before the end of that day’s session, we all decided to not pack up and try and hash this song out. I know it can be stressful, but in my experience if a song comes up at the very last minute of a session, you always record it. I don’t know exactly why. Maybe it’s the universe giving you a gift. But for some reason it always ends up being a special song, if not the best one of the session. Something about the immediacy or the reckless abandon of having no time to overthink. You just go on instinct. And, as it turns out, “Permanent Rebellion” was the first single released for the record. — Frank Iero
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“Sleep Cult”
Well if “Permanent Rebellion” was the last minute addition to the first day of pre-production, then “Sleep Cult” was the last minute addition to day two; the final day of pre-production. — Frank Iero
Our thanks to L.S. Dunes for providing us with an exclusive track-by-track of their new album. You can purchase Past Lives here.
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libidomechanica · 1 year ago
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Untitled (“By much upon thyself only”)
A treochair sequence
               I
The golden pits: ’twas too late, our souls would have ever trod the darts. We
rode; it seem’d very old vizier might or footmarks, but thought had been their
shops of shame in pride, or walk’d down monogamy like you for me,—so
sweet girl, were good with his breeding first, and dewy buds, and figured to
tie her an efforts for ever warm and strained in the flood. Comfort: therefore
than either keep, nor merit it. With voice was gentle her sad ears
like a stone to the high to scold, and the sun unwilling care: o think
I’m different story. By much upon thyself only. Men of France annex,
and how they like spiked aloe. But they lock thee in so hush a mask?
               II
Like a firebrand; she told me too; you walk the hands, side by side. For
thee thine, nor dispraise your sense, with the muse of clay, but be no other
magazines of the glass, and clashed in thy combine the flint, as the fayre?
               III
Like one dumb, and tells of human clay; ye could not join them, palace, what
are you are fair, on trembling over Endymion’s spirit never read
strange and full of power for goose is said, young Juan was thilk same lawn all
sudden journeys, I beheld and yet rolls away; she recognized no
being; in a gushing for men, but could marry. He left it: so farewell!
Know on earth, sings but one, till some a swooning over. As heavy
day on day, and t is odd, none at present; i’m sensible of happy
hoax: there art taught that I loue not wishes in our power was strappin,
the budding years to Art, her slave, and gird in your witchcraft o’ Beauty’s
bright, she’s twisted too long; I have shrunk as from this most balmy lip
when ’tis present situation had it o’er a brow brightest o’ Beauty
and clangs in their senses; and buy. Is much: but ’twas to the chief intense
she must inventions to silence better kept behind none in gay
remarkably sweet breath; and sup. Holding the valley, stream, and yon bonie
side-lie of a suddenly sings but one where all my words cannot
estrangers selfe boye, ah for Colin he who feeling for her pray’d the dew.
               IV
At midnight, earth gaue the goal yet, day by day, with fruit of lovers a
true Hidalgo! Than thou sinn’d in his lesson of Eve, went plucking
various joltings of spring on the fair. All this thine, and woman, so
she’s twisted right, condemn: each was as capable as woman and, you
saw some thrise- sad tragedy, is it seems winning, but heedy shepherds
call. Which, at least-wise brings me to keep off mildews, and cavern, which his
Haidee, it was but that love too much, the heard. Me and wandred I wene
about the shore through the valley-lilies where Tim the whole were gone. Payne.
               V
Neglect, indeed as though her mouth saddles there was no other circumstances
with contented late Sir Samuel Rogers, nor the woodlands to
feel his power depose.—I tell how much oats had fallen no tears. Flying
Hour before— and which, thought it knew not broke thy yoke, they open’d next?
               VI
She saw endymion was good, instead of quarrels one will revive our
fooling that brow of thing so fair, their sheepes bloud full of tumbling mazes
of the hour too soon their tenderness of these groups were through she must
close, a shout mostly sing, with thy glorious libels by no means let
them of their summer has met wi’ my Phillis, has met with the day did
dawn, and whispers, glooms, the lass of Lochroyan is first woke song in his soul
was unlikely to sea in a beauty of the most atrocious readers
should be some time of words, now with such visitant at interview
had ta’en for anon, I felt delighted with his eternal powers
where is the smothering moment, the moors, benighted, sleeping Julia
sate within my call, that’s loose, or to cloud thy brow; the world, to fan and
were not for that’s I—must, with her arm forth. Opening door, who doted;
the deep and birth to turn a blow, and, surely, withdrew itself be lesson
of moonlight; i’ll come to pardon the lot of life, and diplomatist,
they only son, which grow more rich is his chair: though those gentle commons,
lords, t is sweet air stirs blue hare-bells, or at least abstruse. And tell
the fresh green boat, they could take all pieces of passionate love—it stands.
               VII
The sweets are, that vow’d therefore no one knows, whose husbands, friends: one’s quite a
crime, can yet then there wound, and with gushing for him have I invoked the
thigh.—Don, of course; graceful as free and he arose, advance as his temples
bind; and now it happen’d the throng: with gentleman. Gurgling in rich
hair and there was no great plenty. She, too, had Buonaparte won at
Waterloo. It disna become a sweet to see another their horrid,
hideous wives, yet of theirs was an hour and built a house within the
tattoo pulsing at the skies are sweetest stile affords: while he insult
heap, and ruin, or mountain—the change not wish undone. Usual burden
head a Cremosin coronet, with nothing, dreadful leisure; I
care nothing else to guess. Died from opening her silken flanks with the
road was of a happy dell. To name a thing by which were through hell should
stay—at worst befell, a nymph of tears, green knowes no matter merit?
               VIII
And world as, since she throng. Until the hour to the dewy head, and her
tyranny, might mark a lynx’s eye, there hope that she might be bereft, and
said, Those are fond of solitude or so, but sage Antonia maid,
came blushing eye could temperance delight.—All for one more on her common
want, because to go where’er I fill my mild and quiver; so that this
pardon, who wish to parry the remnant worthy of my lameness
in a sloping mead to heart like a states, leaving it; but the swell of
turf and sleet, with all that flickered light to learn the red-breast had not leisure
of weary eves; the ravishment? And, from the Brenta I was so
anxious hands. Looking sent out, calmly Love’s willing leaves, dried careful kind—
I have no rewards on what page; and gather’d a reward to say, Just
this bruisèd heart throbbed to heare. I lou’d, but much inferior to King
Menelaus: but the sweet sound, poor fellow captives back darker and she
herself they do, t will only be the hatchway one by one three votes.
               IX
Observing little to exalt; no matter when wrong! She now delay
a trace, a tinting on her: great pittie is, he be in vain the ear, which
is mornes messenger of sympathetic, because to wet finger’s
taper burnt, and test! His coffin’s lid: let not much inferior to
King Menelaus: but the many thing, marching that bene bate, an airy
lust, too often have had force of work is here! Of Adeline, with
her Moorish blood less noble life be a blessing, or me, so tyranny
grew strong, but thought him bring good! The shepherds pipe as sad as plover’s
cry, of looke, at my request. Has so sorely bruit, where twenty years hence
it ran bright, if such a beauties broken o’ercharged with a tawdrie lace.
She kept, and store it up when musing deeply, and overcoming at
his movements were ripe for her princesses were thrown into mischief-making
Woes darkness to have more pallid cheek the mode of Cyrus, best one.
               X
Swim: and took all things we see, his pinions should excel the brine with the
cobbles he endure to brood so lost a thing til the hundred good
zecchini, but cold spring he most attractive dower, endymion’s spirit,
and musings on and determine: although his fools away. All for the
muse of thy perusal stand for their books to bait their friend like this
various ways, until, from those are the stamp of my fault—I kept good seem’d
answer’d but with many legions beautiful, the blustring lover, poet,
or asp, had she vow’d chaste liaison foul of bubbling princesses shook;
or, it may be, some stay’d in Spain? He found, and on flowery tale more,
to be deem’d by thy love was once a little to despond rather here?
               XI
And this all the morning. Feels all that Memory loves languish, whate’er
the other stopp’d this at presently, still chaste and singen soote, in that
fair Adeline, you are in plenteous store, but next that wondrous new
machinery, and I choose take heede. Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
full palatable; and ask me to you. Their friendlesse night draweth on,
and every spirit nurse with middel smal and loud cried for a lass wi’
a tocher’s shafts, perhaps I shall be thy babe’s father, and clodded earth,
sings a bird upon it will bolt the page is shown, and seals might sweete? As
of guilt, t is not meat corrupting. Invented, and pale, and pain had
been early grave which she deem’d answer’d to a halt under. And familiar
was her eyes a moment that same troade, but just the evening-star’s at
once could scan a lurking demi-god, and then—and went, he will I singe
his legal face. Often to this new field, with King Henry’s right out. Until
she stay’d my foolish heaven! But Adeline, what far too long I’ve
battle was; and, for this was my idol, which she is about theatrical
pretence to live young mind from the shepheards swayne you couldst haue all,
and her loving sprite with quiver; so that he wanted to heauen is too
young son in her crumenall. No matters are seen, with him how they lock
thee possess’d; but where, and all her sides I could not brew a pastoral.
               XII
From alle wommen my lord’s estate, by a foreigner is strange sensation,
even disdain; he wander’d, by divine: though we deem it frantic
gape of darkness among the shepherds to the flowers, on the chronicle;
men have always spoils the heard of summer is not manage such guise
that sith the White yfere, in either on the most attracts by his pretty,
precious points. Thought of sea and wind, flung roses, but them climb Aornus,
and other scarce knew alliances his tresses. Her black, to mumble
deliciously she no further great a sum of sums, yet can not love
to show false Art what binds us: strong bow into them all in vain he
listening, how dark tree tops? Though her hair, and death destroy. The lady’s bed,
and so nor wine, you knock on my breast was not other strife by carrying
the business past o’er the tattoo pulsing came a lively tone, and
sage, a goodly verdure flings, the mathematical, her magazines
of a friend; between his pillow; pale she was spring I might I missaye.
               XIII
Attend the rosy dawn. Me—me, there, till through oh! Of happier men.
               XIV
He had won. And that her soft, liquid words spak never wi’ her can they
thinking Fund’s unfathomable sea, that wild ecstasy? And such a
slight sair again, if we can’t tell me all amiss! An ignorance and
plied the valley lighted the winds; and there suspicion could not much strong.
               XV
An hendy hap ich habbe yhent, ichoot from such with scarce any reve
me my shame and out Lowder was her, but still tarrying her lips were made
out, and yet I care not so unpleasant, to catch a certainly no
virtue’s sake— not a lump upon her cheek. Her stature tall—I hate it,
as I believe: if t is not to be invited to any
sensual for a child, and Wordsworth understood the merry was a mere
sense held a basket full of all this the birth; and cordials they join, joints
dovetailed on this by this calm and freeholders— yet no less—the voice more
pallid cheeks, and after having in the ear, and thou, Desire, because
surrounded; yet could like him with the rosy dawn. Of passions, sheds
beautiful as free and Juan, eager now thy lee-shores by my soul was
undrest, intentions were much the most circulating scatter’d in the
edge of matter, and must want or for the change ere nigh lands, that, alas!
All the dore, and spreading in his shell, and mean, next winter season; the
memory was she treated me who have its head to you; then by day.
               XVI
—Inter nos. Because the shore, bacchus and Ceres being, and to bind
us to join, the Holy Three to But closed the electric blade.
               XVII
As his sway, how they look like lies; should have but look and limb diffused the
blue surge, not wherefore I’ll make Don Juan’s father’s rough, especially
in France, spread greyly eastward, thus one lamb did lose. Stands alone; she perhaps
she must not let one to loue and singen soote, in the silver she
was sparkled through she loosened hair! And thus, it shan’t have done as my maiden’s
force, since what Meg o’ the gude red gowd, set up Wordsworth, and shining
into its radiant with inward envy his troubled sea of ocean.
And begg’d her eye; there be whate’er my deserved the dairy pair, who never,
never taste, who doth owe to the venerate a petticoat—a
garment more neat than such things; he threw a rueful glance departed soul.
               XVIII
Ere I go hence came wonder at your belles and young son is in their groves
Elysian: but thought ay deep-mouth’d welcoming. Stranger, mislaid love with
truth; a truth. More last this or that is with grace can you shall statesman or
a prophecies of this dim vast vale of my own steed from moats and how
they gaze on her cheek. Devils, and there it granted it was to rent I
would raise; but pity had he for a different leaning. They slept together;
we’ll see, how melancholy risers after all their eloquent
recitative. See: but my five sense of the powers checkered with
precision hooves if it brings me to you. Since the deep and brightest o’ Beauty’s
bright all be true, and groom who hurry in the magic sleep! And all
heroes some private end, melting pulp, that Juan had great where the same brightest
compass, round her serious makes me sin awards me, like the
silvery setting; we may chance—and who can! Rhymes, and the Hellespont and
placid sandals, first vow’d cheeks, half smiles to envelope those nonsense thing
need not call the trophies of no tongue. I though, taming a shady, fresh,
and all be here; his singing all my care and his friend scrawled by the by;
in Spain, you are! I lou’d, but no more attractive dower, especially
when at length those nonsense things unto people are coin’d from such small licence
is to glowing dull. And healthier brandished high, where euer it laye?
               XIX
Shown in Spain? Pang, the trees feele his loue such are little book, from thy
sleep o’er-power’d me in ministring looks were his fyrye face so liuely
chere. From his bowery nest. Which once he made no bones. Her conscious did
they were never more or less those who served me from the Brenta I was
desolation: few would not so decent either. When Damsines I
gether, breath least forbear to wake, and now no more: we humbly at your
own footsteps regularity may cloy when met, and then would do; his
your Venus, who doth owe to the old inn- door. Boy, as he knew no better
yet to fret the foam that she spoken, time is quicke in vain. If any
person what are they become change things? Her set his loathing but what
is fixed trance, all bluely dash’d through hell should compose more bene thine image
dies with its synonym.—Then hey, for a divorced, but seldom hear
it. And vales: who, sudden grown high skies, though chill—with a sprig of yew tree
in his tutors whom to call pretty lad, but nothing could all be cramped
into the toilet, but still tarrying feet, and found how to peruse; he
readiness those regions beauties blot; let him betight. And now, like it.
               XX
The action of the most probably,—when at length to fly the end. Here in
the sunny, for David lived to show all the evening sun; conspiring
I deny, admit, reject, contemplating there, I favor’d none—nay,
was upon her cheek, and see them, and care, if wee must, let’s sing off Count
your men of every line portmanteaus, trade will revive our heroine.
               XXI
I’m fond myself I’ll force of her heard it? Of Zephyr bids a little
do we know even fourth place, he knew not what dark eye show’d deep Passions,
which such lust, and though which, by bribing the population there art taught,
by love of the best intent I never had seen a ghost—what way the
parties to thee, and pleasure. The delight down like a state within mine
with her wi’ her caress’d his energies, and woes there, and Vice, and
staggering new loveliest, chaste Muse he pleasant, if there was not that trod
as heavy ache lay dead and blue-stockit farms. Which my worth is friends and
physician that froth’d on his, but found himself at the beauty’s alarms,
to keep the whites. This Child I to myself— besides, I leave the cause of
newe woe, for willing care: o think they’re on thee Diggon, and shar’d their taste,
he abideth night thy nurse with mingle with Georgia snow. Priest they must
be done? But with musket beside his deuoyr beliue. Thus ending an ear-shaped
cone to thyself thou wilt resort, so now fayre Elisa be your stockings
are touch’d his toilet, there to see. She would he while people on most
my mother’s shirt for a greatest company, and bright, my dazzled soul.
               XXII
What, any longer paused not the waters run gurgling in thee to be
wed or dead? He taps within the withered leafe from this his own: there bred
new though winning, after they are ready to her loof her feeling forehead
of honey, and therefore, unluckily ne’er retreated, but
innocence is too young and snake-like figured to be done? She gather’d a
reward to Homer’s birth, and haunt of sister. Leading staring always
envy, though it was whiter still must pay a hand-breed short-hand penuree.
               XXIII
To bend with arrowy smart; years were, each other’s head, daily, or more
o’er me threw his singing then—he too became repeaters, then look’d grave
had first are you rush of garments when we traced his own plight and was but
thoughts to Lucy I will nor can forget you and turn’d to his heathenish
heartfelt reluctance between thee are always must lose whate’er may
be, now! A prize pig, and then the design against the while Sweet Adeline
deserved the other see how many things; he threw himself had chance:
so happen. Not at the enumeration, but—Oh! Taming a song.
               XXIV
Yet Jose was much consoled by like saints— was all have not a boy, and
then publisher decrees I, forc’d, agreed excepting the valley, by
rock and yre, where rivulets danced to fly have a fee was peace must bear
to me: forsaken lady to sage or piety, and gowan lurk,
lowly bending, as all methods t is of Antonia let him
but been nor wine, we han greater, purer, bright rise had blown in fright; she
saw endymion pine away! Then to the deid o’ ane, the two and though
knives and squires a saint to be, which he sought; and that my Muse is a
fitting, causeless perhaps t is odd, but with though too well bred to
Dian? Not a soul to sever, and flush with chastned mind. And you will
be thy breathe such an education, expurgated by the Hebrew
noun which grows less a friend to followed, his selfe beleeue that would’st thou through he
did not why: t was extremely pale, and dewy buds, and doth not I.
               XXV
Shepherds, lifting up a branch break vengeance on him her flaws in some truth
to pity, who sitteth by Norman Church his pride, the margin kiss all,
for very slight, that which can face calculators when they tamed him out
of men, can tell by tongues—she looks; to country and soft pipes and you with
mine eyes. How the weel-stockit farms. And must have done things the name has sent
his feet, pale and still, and, as the silvery pyre of bright, my dazzled
soul. And that I call that theyr flocks: whether a sky’s or tradesman’s
scope, more rich in hope, they han solemnity. To her; for her! The
aggregate may drop in for a Princesses around her, this, though on their
moralities. With a haw bayberry kame; that men, the bag o’ the
bath and a lustre in its little broom bowèrs where t was for me.
               XXVI
You resided first, then, abash’d and lurk; her hair was dripping, and less;
i’m sensibility. Without display in, trust me, too, my battles,
despite my sad antithesis to glowing how to fill up his aged
heart and every line: so now his passion cannot be—or I at
least t was May, a Jew took one of thine incomparable oil, ’
Macassar! Their shadow’d that true we are riding— a highwayman came again;
to love; flesh grows lush in turn,—Why do you—and all the many might
noise of thy sprites with Inez were worth did it’s whole weeke without strong
minority and dim, and knew not what is new: you’ve pass’d Juan thou
reviewest now is the top-gallantry, and overswear the light, for her
tragic life, to love; flesh stays no father’s glass, so little love much as
they are but to destroys most list and said, He was quite it from annoy,
like the many brothers but, instead demurest meditation, unto
her with Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet. Me beare, all for her
prime: so thou need—let everywhere, confused, in the approved it somehow,
this effect, or feel, by its praises, perhaps may strike six from sullen
earth its crimson glory spread, and lives and were no longer still too late,
with realities; but vaccination without fewell you among.
               XXVII
Where are shadows wild and saw into her own couch, new made out, and seemed
to strange! I can interposed to venturesome, I send my herald
Hesperus away, she who champion’d his endless like a knot. Thought, with
leaves his singing? Here I might be inly swore because I can’t gaze a
minutes, he found a lodging is, than all the phantom of her blotte. And
cordials they walke not without a blushing under gore, herkne to my daughter,
temper not the numerous and his light’s tear. Other on the sunny,
sounds and burning up a lower, much for me by my onely
Deare: but Virgil’s song; each in the meditation, all country girlish
grounds,—alfonso in his shell, and falls thy shadow-like an error cleare.
               XXVIII
Or the sun unwilling, had the shepheards daughter, cast on the heard her
song; valour was a sort of champagne and times of her own blood bound to
see displease, whom I must be or seem what are conceives how tiptoe
of an old pass most people hum it long— the race of all sweetness to
explain’d, as no deed of fire, and distracted guise seemeth to choose between
his faith, to the door was of late the loveliest, chastest, best, no
better chance my tale. And tuned his Paradise of amethyst,—would I
to myself am mortgaged to state, that linger inuests with many
a wile, and lives of glist’ring skill, I trust, but—quite there were exiled from
this scrawl because t is said, and third time procedure in that he had
been pluck’d—all’s known women as a scout were left with buls and showers where
all in vain by the ditty. In their antiquity for ay from you,
light of these thing want; more rich, more than wear a train going to thin a
little journey.— Was, that break through nature’s wreath, when last to lose itself,
without I leaue to love and gude enough for me by moonlight, over
the bed as well as all my dress their forehead, without drawing bloudie paine.
               XXIX
Was a mine: she knock’d it with fraud and champagne and took all the cock can
summon all sides on the dawned lighted the mysteries which us doth
eternity, famous for the Sea; listening, how dare you rise? Thus I
have read, the nights and romances I ne’er forget the calm hours creeping
star and sweet, if human hour where these grey to hear such, or ne’er have you
treat? That severely wound, and as a summer clouds and one miscarriage-
bed of this epic will connects us, the dew sat chilly on the
loved before the sideboard’s stage be, will hunt thee for myself am
mortgaged to see the bitter power shall be sports of louers ruine somewhere
sings a bird on every angle greet! Or I at least it did, thou leave?
My hearts endured and now at length, and they did not cost me you know that
oppress’d him out before they’re sincere regret the rain drops are taxes
on our journey. For Henry heard a hint of Adeline would not suspects
with her form another at the brighter; while that euer he begun
a long ere the purple moor, a highwayman comes back from my side shall
be either; and deaf, that vision’d bower, shall quickly find any more:
juan had not be free, the ground is buoyant spirit, thought I well marke: he
has known women torturing, as they pick’d up the writhed her out within
it is plain: seas that we felt no wrong. For where the day—the sixth year
is strange flames, my heart was in t: and now my heart lies hatching to you.
               XXX
This is the unforgive me, don’t think, was she but and better angelick
face, a sudden journeys, I beheld and rot share a boy I sought
forbids all were too straight win oblivion, and then to think to fly
have a high soaring by a virgin bloom the spirits, and stirr’d to take
that howsoever ride? The clients’ clan of Doctor paid off an old old
worlds life hath ceased to fly the cup. Die. Sorrow the golden palace. The
Miller he hecht her care a moment on my part, because the pale smiled
when ever risk of being fires: some one: the change the good Hobbinoll,
record some skill to be unmoved; but this, what new to speak to your child!
And, in sooth, possession, and chin the air. Blessing, and laid conditions
rather come and white, plainer shewing like a brand as if it could enter
into its cool underwater face was resembles most king
calculation,— fair Adeline had an only what I would see but for
supercargo. As in any manner by the best or ambition!
               XXXI
Of heau’n of my door, who thus much of words masculine persuade me I
am old, and she was written upon grass, long-settl’d eies whence flowery
band to have found, and can’t get out, ’ like Yorick’s starlight glances of
quietness, and, truly, have tower’d me in midst of all selfenesse
he for a lass wi’ a tocher; the foam of age, nor there was not for
me on earth can have been shaping visions are my own applause, of ayde
or country season, of the shaft, and I myselfe beleeue that may turn your
bones, a soldier went for new. Or gall the freshness of a birth beset
her, and still, which did show of louers ruine some shape of darkness; thou hast but
look into the lyric sound, whose suicide that she was remote from
book myche to despise, who like throws o’ershadow’d by heaven, remain with
heavy ignorance of what it might he leane soules trees, though gald, and hard
as his very neckcloth’s Gordian of the glassy deep, where thy ways!
               XXXII
Thus let the schoole of Paramoures. Let no matters and pray for
you, no doubt she only on this subject to invent a something waste
has sometimes of sterling silvery showers where long. Spiritual pit-
a-pat, or that such skies, could yield his confusion, and reasons making.
Which might choose take heeded not; a monk remain’d, unchased, unchased,
unchaste? But there’s the old inn-door. Tis said of Trafalgar, twixt place
where—young, he has been knowes no man knows what’s his; thou, their measure of
his mouth. She hadna sail’d but will still must pay a handsome truth our vows
are wooing sun of spring about, yet, coop’d up in a Brussels lace.
               XXXIII
Either chilliest beat with vigour; and thus doubly widows—wives! More
blue and braider great resource to me; then advocates, inquisitors,
unconscious heart. Lives that vulgarit—’ which made Solomon a zany.
               XXXIV
To live on still that darkness among the fair. Of chivalry was she,
Blythe by this most vile, besides there is a most abhorr’d. Becomes more bright;
she did not sleep in twixt life was dour and eats her hair: but let a tear.
               XXXV
No doubt it, I do burn in loue. Are you— poor, sick, old ere you like a
sea-horse, though well born and bare in their tithe of the moon, they were crackling
in Heaven descend to government—he held within. Occasions: the
preserve it less; i’m so entanglements, hours, and Kingcups, and can’t say
much admired, and snow, such follying before the royal and love, nor
trumpet’s mouth but you and you will serve for the sun’s purple couch; to
emulate in ministring ore: ’twas then her sire’s arm, which quotation they
fear’d but two except in sight, to be whate’er she loiter’d and lotted
to meet her without a groan, finding the bell bed, handfuls of daisies.
’Er the bounteous showers, and worthy praises are all his country circle
rang’d, stood silent deep-disguis’d demon, missioned to keep thy credit
as a ghostly galleon tossed upon thy heart is the usual
price, and red; but in their hideous sigh, and turn’d at once more shak’d
thyself than stronger strife; t is said, until she spoke: like statutes of
women, whose trees it struck through high sense of pain with peacefulnesse,
forstallen hem of three. The silent night, I became more his mistress’ thrall?
               XXXVI
A monk, array’d o’er this much mortal, an immortal drink, pouring all-
claretless to the sky, when wars doe surcease: such folly. My being,
and the room, and serene cast on the humanity may make ich habbe
yhent, ichoot from the earth we are names of love alone: but if thy
lure hath in the midnight come in the severity was most your sweet
the serene and all, some time an unhappy soul doth tell me there; so,
nor plains where are eligible. Death contrived too many trouble, their
dinner and play in his desolate, and turn’d himself has made in that
once with a wild clock for nothing strings; ’ and fourth grace of heau’n of my sex?
               XXXVII
What theirs was locked and robes grace, as between; an unknowing trees do lean
all tears, my skirtful of offend, will spy in the isthmus of the day,
the heroic salamander if t is truth—to prove him—I will
consume my heart, t is he for amusement with dumbe eloquent
recital was told Rose-Armed Dawn, love stays forever; he cast aside the
pride I this fountain pine, o forests; while we look, his man’s estate would
understand. Then advocates, inquisition, I wish thou wouldst free cast
on their quiuers, intentions for madder music too,—while we can be most
stranger than he while the earth being obsolete. Them take him to his;
but their books, and Juan will fall; but if heaven with your fearful of my
sex? It was from those are monthly, or our guilt brought. Sing all for Poesy!
               XXXVIII
Three quarter. ’, Her nose and judges, some rest; but, wretched up from loving,
o fine as that would meet, and may find thee, only Phillis can vie: her
brain, thought in me do reed of louers speake what they had not brew a pastoral.
Eyes can shoot so fair assisted. Should as t were, on the lily!
               XXXIX
And nowe sithence besides, it had many thing, ere such things—ocean and
comprise a pack of fables; t is sweet poesy of his air, those who
would fail. Of brighter dropped the world, my universal epigrams of
May; the more the Long Knives’ getting much distrait, and milky way; but I
must dwelling of time aloud the mother. So hush a mask? Then, whence their
turn like to mix some strange. The neck with bowèd necks, and mellow’d, which now-a-
days had mitigated part, I’m afraid of those eyes can it foote to
tye thee more. Her virgin bloom of a virtuous woman’s faults were here;
perhaps surprise. Odd, but then the sky retired; and burst, and resources
have Public day,—quite well; yes,—no. Scar between this mark of friend, I guess’d.
               XL
Pride, as by a sprinkling staring always what they turned since nothing
too. Haunt us till her fingers were crackling teares spring, as there
it was the moon is: I praise. For all of you are charmingly sweet friend
Don Juan’s eyes. Your Beauty your mantle of the Storm grace the merely felt
a grieuous case, blind-hitting out of his magic of her small guitar, o
lovely gifts something through almond vales: who, sudden journeying high, much
as the door, no shame had blown in fright; the which even the way, subdued
because that seeldome chaungeable rest, he stood in act to spring in
pious consort gave back the hours, and bent. Yet once adventurous and
cause of milk. Yet of the litter. Like it. And Ida in the great bounty,
he sate, but no matters are swept away, with wide open—and they
mean to move towards its dose;—hers was that, but be shown, no doubt, when he was
in dangerous to blacknesse coming at last, of parcells may depart:
t is sweet the interview had ta’en an internal throes, and therefore
paused a minutes troubles from me. I can’t imagined you half-awake,
and sped the full board, and passionate breath, seem’d made eternity, unless
what they prove her head droop’d as when I awoke and freeholders—yet
no less sublime discovers, or Mrs. Quiets at once for giggling?
What end the Attic Bee’ was much more true. Has made me rich: but nothing
themselves so very odd. Is wrong; though seeming song sighs o’er her foul pride.
               XLI
Or Paint must never meet. Like one who hold some otherwise? I can’t say
much upon the stage, and friend of having plann’d, unless, like the whole, and
between the same, delight, I pray thee greet: but press my love’s fuellers, and
made me as the full moon, the pretie Pawnce, and when upon by the landlord’s
daughter, and game, a still shoulder, whether saint to boast, and that same none;
in feeling forth the situation, to plunge in medias res’ horace
makes the porch, and Jervis. In speech were some heart or sciences, and cave
and like the confusion reel to earth, but not the sun came and both in
the work was locked and doth not set me an example, blowing,—tis please,
if there I will fall; but in sense, with musickes loue through nature, and
though fortune is—o, valiant man! An oyster may see; don Juan’s compare?
               XLII
So thin it. And, second had him some shape was like a keyhole and waite.
The hall, could not directly for there is a babe; then outran discrepancies,
none upon her to rehearse? Those above.—Yet no lesse: looke here,
too, my battles, despite of his own innocent determined that this
poor rhyme: what I should through thou canst thou betray us. But I say, when
two people in the ceremony. While you now. Drew one lamb did lose.
               XLIII
He also her to such things wi’ Geordi- an knot, what merest white, of
mine for ever: its loveliness. And makes the clouded, but wonder!
               XLIV
With ebon- tipped flutes: close to reproduced a plan whereby to erect
new buildings of life’s hackney coach, where translate a general admirations
high, and that in his chariot glimmer on high the ravishment,
into the street: none can tell? But now a scholler art to such doings
I’m a modest alley they by, and, may be dear, and still. His breeding
warmth of one of Sisyphus, if once was rather. The truth. It half finish
Juan’s breath no flower loves the firmament as yet, quite clear and brick.
               XLV
Contented thy powers, and display considerable things down some
fairest most softly intreat my soul with that sweet to brow, and fair, or
mermaid’s undressing if the sun unwilling, and next a quarter: she
had been embroidery, and then, that he sought for fifty times: leaf, zipper,
sparrow, lintel, scarf, window send for saving—vice spares thee remaine.
               XLVI
Smiled, but dearth. The antique Persians taught, thy nature’s fire heats water-fretted
halls, which way the when, or why then put to the latter worser far,
the wind blew loud, that I prove no more; but who can have pass’d, like prayer
with a difference benumb’d my example more, or romancers: You’re a
boy can’t be, as in polite than mournen evermore. But makes new noses,
one from the whole self once with amber studs, my hunting—for the prince
is bold even fourth grace, by humouring sun was not any other
minds to the life, and still these, a world grows dull, and stars, the rayne is false
Art what Passions, wit with his brain went ever pantingly and blood. That
fond kiss; and now in the pit; the gaudy house is a flow’r in May, her
sweet time came. For, like Wellesley now; each having no such families. And a
day, a summer weather; to summon’d handmaids tender young hearth, spite of
wrinkle. But Phemie was a walking a silvery enchantment came to
pay their buried are mine eyes he look’d a lectures he wish’d abolish’d.
From its bodily tenement. The However dealt in fiction.
               XLVII
So as I can, I will not suppose thy gifts. Talk to your choice was white.
               XLVIII
A lump of coal that is, the Lord’s prayer, ’ and the marble’s unchanged; for
the matrons, while I kiss till Gregory! But for too much; for from me
hys madding more; with awful footsteps regular and dresses mark, and
trampling on her: great number, and she was married—how soon made indifferent,
with the Saxon king, new character’d, D—n her, ’ and for slaughter,
and their death. Yet one to Venus, when right tinge of friendship but in
their spells did never dream, mither; sic a wife in Spain, you know’st thy
estimate: though which though Love’s inmost sacred beauty is a joy for every
bourn; and loud and smiled when nature of our near-dwellers of age now.
               XLIX
Of knight at your belles and ached for all turn the train going away. And
three, when all smile or star must be damn’d for superstition’s mint, they sayne
the follow them link’d with looks lovely in the breathed words would understands.
               L
Your nature’s discrepancies, none of what his gowden was her, but served
their tenter, hack, knew that awful shine that doth light. Featured like the lot.
               LI
’Er; and hold those precious points. Of that do still without any dangers
like a suddenly a memory of the first o’er a dish of tears,
my clenched in a crack will all be the lass of thy husbandry? In my
mind doth not so dirty with though she was not near that Peggy made it
half finished is. The common forms in love the rightest confounds—but the
house of all beings passions. In praise for not but well if other million
times the naked salt of earthquakes, and if the simple, shown me with
a pure Platonism, which she said, and faith may after dinner of the
lass of children garlands dressing in long starving hopes, since a bride! And
rock,—’mong which just now, his usual proceed, till fayrer Fortune is—
o, valiant masquerade; but the most full happiness to feele his
heart can fall like dying tongues—she look’d at home, in times a gleam of too
much, which still she that authority, whose back with the year where the palm.
               LII
After a life than law. The event decided to turn a young couple’s
were ripe for her! Of silver leaf, that thou hast thou live, remembered.
               LIII
Close by the town, where people do. Calculations, and would have had your
belles and face, a still would only one, who made monastic vows; that
overteem with much she defied all in another’s watch. Prey of sea-born
Venus, whene’er you please you read that for while she pond’s surface before.
               LIV
Through he rode with all the distance from enclouded brain, like shower of
blossomed Muses’ lovely thinking it was as one will die of long
eulogy of patent black and Tom are paired within. Were ticklish grace,
that blows, and dark in thy breath no great sensation; but at six a
charmingly sweet than the dolour of bards and faith may shee florish long, in
ev’ry possess’d a straw, t will be back the rain drops fra my yellow
guineas for all heroes some years ago. Twelve days and nights she tripping,
and mutters his past or present, doubting of my chaste Adeline, what
a checked impulse of the company, of the lang night! Are so divine:
thou shalt remain, if that should do, own the o’erflowing,—tis pity would
with her can comparing, joyful cries, the love or thy old Orinda
call those same hypocrisy design to jest upon the grosse. Bows have
I brought up much more red; she took amiss: in the we moons, or his palms
were something rather come and to fashioning the same: the illusion’s
form by silent night, bathing of it. She written upon the dim echoes
drew, trembling over hollow sound shall pass my days alone a Gods
name: as the burden of a well, and rail, and make nothing so fair a
light; our taintless fleeces? I do not drop in with thee how many moe.
               LV
There, one may say, like moonbeams fell negligently glad the shoes! Nature’s
distresses mark, and plunder’d my whole analogy between a kind
of crews as renegadoes; while it travellers, and set it on the
cobbles he each day of the truth our vows and compromise of lids then
of cornflowers, on the more bene Wolues yrent, all for he mutters
his place, the heaviest tempest—surely the knot. To turne and all
the worst befell? And were through me it was as he passion, that would wander’d,
by divine! Might have it weene, and frantic. When an heir is born, a
pleasures, and as youth I wrote it still; death call, and have served the matrons
frown’d; some new convulsive groan; on her the third thing more, or madam dies.
I felt his hair twine like a cedar fell’d their owne false, yet with a ruby
large amount to her face sharpens and caught is to be sure; she shaken
the learne it with its soft displaies vertues gold must set at first, and
is only bedded reeds—in desolate? And must not down thy name, a
wretch to bear all that Hope is half a poetess, ’ turning glow; nor did not
the hour less dreary melodious leasure of blister, a young a
husband’s foibles by according as the fragrant me to keep going
down, thoughts, and all weather round her breast, the call, would understand. Of what
he may triumphant show; all, there, till, now, on the ear, and would not you
discoveries made me, feele his creditor; yet, like a blanket.
               LVI
I call leisure: now, like soldier heard a Wild Flower singing all
together, this, besides there are elect, whether it would say, nay, if any
actor miss’d the oaths which until the tide. If you loved housekeepers,
to discern longinge for soon was my idol, which make my hoarded joy
if it bring it was daye light of hurts, which, for we must all poetic
licences must be—my whole host’s identity. And run in mazes
that same to this during even her small pity him I lose their very
common; for instant more near, by every station, talk o’er the wind.
               LVII
Rules without much that they bred in the robber say—one kiss, my bonny
son was grown already for me by moonlight, i’ll force theyr good one on
tithes and young trees it signify? If he his heart while its cool cell,
far as I kenna thou be my blessing or complexion shone as e’er
held her in a sea; an element that she was, as thou hast read how
roughly he in pieces of more than seruants wracke, where bright alone, like
Adam’s recollectioneerer, by laying what he cannot skill enough
to hell, my life, for example, blowing, or worthiness I miss.
               LVIII
Whose cheek laid open; but this is my breast such a louely grace to leaue
to loue and few there was shaped like a poll of ivy in their own in
universe! Although for thee will only bellow; in fact; from thence I
sawe Phoebus daunce euen? Which they are laid: juan was that I knew ye not as
yet imagined it vnto this truth is frail, and with twelve yards off, or soul!
               LIX
—For lo! Are ways to be said little. And is in others for the woman
earth beneath its heroes some man, there she was, that others, replicate
amber; and, as true it was the fair. Dancing, gunnery, and beat
ye so, and a good to restore his glittering leaves a lonely Niobe,
poor, love Gregory! Than true, some name her. The tout ensemble’ of his
toilet,—which of time passion there was absent, and, as this, for Julia.
               LX
With her falls asunder I feel the bees hum about the hot Burgundian
on the harmonies she is a caprice; and if a staircase
ending at their state and truth or errors note; but pity him I lose
their voices to the sublime, and all ye gentle Muse he was another.
The right upward, throughout: i’m very sympathy, for facts against
bonos mores, ’ with a tawdrie lace. By the merely to myself, Alas!
               LXI
That brought to send a young man’s art and seamen. Sagged like a Miss America;
perhaps may sit, and from sleep steady thy losse, and less, fair Annie
of Ladies bright. She had that I must surprise.—In short, I have spent
pair, shall procure, although destined to know what euer it hight, feare to breakers
to their chins,—a daily news printed its flesh; for all of misery
can scarce could they did not confined, ’ some new convulsive groan; on her
pale, and free of spear aloft, as signal shaking, but with one I love
not a sigh or step ran sadly through, and some French, but then, and sees with
our good old- gentlemen, who had no such materialised, and pity;
and Juan’s gore, he thrust there was not a judge or a name, a wretch to
behold, then for the conscious heart all mould thus he stars dart them cruel love!
That night, what, a whole and sighes stormed be! Of poets plunged in their faces
are but to the leg. We’ll talk of their brows! It display in his sheepe
would bring; the whitely sweet peas, I must, I think, instead of being him
to the dales of her exultation of ethereal; and then flies.
               LXII
Or careless way, and set her view struck through the case, it might afterwards
burn what piece a wondering moment; she dream’d his toilet, but it was
a trying moment he had a heart—which made vs meriment, he
wylfully hath been a creed so stands a statue, stood: he felt her warm and
still, is flank’d round his foreheads, lowly bending an eclat, but the Amor
Mio’s! Line had one defect—here in the more’s the others, but they
lived together. His curls strive, but for dowry will consumers of the
map of day: Antonia, who were like a cedar fell’d. By our lowing
bust, which many legions of true genius by dames admired; a
little comprehends; revenge in perspective, her voices to take my
vows, and wandred I wene be his stanzas back. As the next swath and blood.
               LXIII
Fling up that come and bulky worth, as danger,— her husband now I have
no one lives and but in the aforesaid paints as Saint both man and champagne,
and in pride, as sweet to win, no matter: impress’d even as breaking,
the starry height to hang over his brain of human breath’d defence.
Or of both, some slightest colour’d hedge, ditch, and who she is Syrinx daughter,
had bagg’d this way, so much please—a most edifying consciences,
no breezes reinvigorate dormant deserts scorched with sounds straine, pain
his transistor to Long John Nebel arguing from his right. Their union
without a foreigners don’t know who stem the stain’d up a though sleep, Haidee’s
sweet to the river damm’d from thence I sawe thy hair soft-lifted by
a downward glance not abasht: when you broke in upon us with
courtesy so blending, comes home deserts, as a patience. Their fellowship
I need not in the onset come; so shall I ne’er be thou shall: tis shadow’d
by two, and the tertian, and sun. Despite therefore the capo
d’opera, not for me! Ere what Meg o’ the flower: o, for very
sympathy, for which will die with, dim-descried. Air like the old are quite alone
a Gods nameless lip to Juan’s last sentence sayes, the gentle girls who
for madder music’s sound of our old debts in at sixty years to climb.
               LXIV
Greatly love and virtues cover; I knew ye not? I leave the ingle
station, to plunge with the sweet to have from such hurry, with some private
meet? I tell the mode be perhaps they who liues course of all books! Glad if
for heaving us fancy, till the daunc’d, they say your memory of
the sky; if you looked on, and having songs waken from off the morning.
               LXV
The large a scope, more finesse with Georgians, Russians, English influence,
I Stella oft sees the violet, one a guillotine, and the valley,
streams that twinkling strawberries their cal: for festivities or mortal
love. Day by day prepar’d—though the fifth Juan, nor change of friends, those who hold
a levee morn. A purple, none at press there be law or law, but by
the poor thine shall roll before thirty come, sir, get into a warm heart
is feminine, nor poet these other. But Heaven, these he mopeth
idly in his face withdrew his spirit a woman and, you made; and
chafe, and hastily look’d on many a token o’ercharged with payne.
               LXVI
Each doth such a dance, but would kiss those verdict in Insanity’. Pussy
said no one like a stone is slight and despair, who never loved, I
loved, that love must come, which always signs she must not paid for in good this
bow to Cupid but this is the shepherds with Moll and poppies red: at
which brings to common sympathetic vapoury tent—whereas I haue
bene, to adorne her waist; but Juan, here is tholien while the will, in
times shalt not lead some limb and she, with a glance, too, my battles, despite
of decency; but even seven years had warm’d; and out, in his lip
to her wit she something in footing the first strange! As morn, to set a
foreigner is strange—the Hebrew tongues in a sieve. A paper to receiv’d
in sleep without much stone table, would spoil his mind was Ambition, and
did give my eyes to wonder’d by two, and tell the calentures is
dependence, of the hall was long; but, as he revolved to feele this,
but mine to die? I will be my blessing for clarification, a
most attracts emotion. Translucent electrical wires, a black wing.
               LXVII
No doubt, t was stores and yon bonny ship, to keep thy creditors regret
the military breeze would swell—thou ligge in a pair of Lugo,
but none could make it knowne, a grief, of dogs and a staircase ending, could
not tease my pleasanter than the severity is always seeking
to me, until it centred in a tule fog that when the origin
her blood before the very common- place or two; yet held my
recollection in its spirits, and then would hope, life, misled, and send out
of our only visible, because the night listen’d;—Hush! Of grass, and
then, I beg all my dream change designed: she treated me who have made of,
stream, gives grace. Dear is tame, and still more of pride with dreams. And everybody
knows, and truffles. And the tracery of this; thou shalt be so
deleterious, unless, like Wellesley now; each having at set my hell.
That I brought faint fare-thee-wells, and to come. Her brains she should ask me, if
you wouldst free I worship him, like a ball! Then look for me by their faces,
and wish’d, mid that theyr flocks creeping ankle? And every where thy ways!
               LXVIII
To what garres men might fight againe. Yet without a tomb to cover
me—me, the bare bulb softens above, young a husband’s life—I recommend
young company below, which flies twixt life awry? How sickening, listened.
Shuffle your feeling, she arose as one whose age is rustled whiles
our father’s bosom all for her! Excuse for fear of seely sheepe, for
tea and coffee came. Where Tim the other— at least I have them long! All
at one dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked where first examinations,
and caverns in a great Bandogs will not suspects with her hand,
the lonely every hair. Ponder and his muffin was not other
sensible of happier men. Till with loue yblent: great pittie is, he be
in the atrocious, and here these late has not for the proud, the earth grow?
               LXIX
Perhaps to open for sinning; seen beauty thoughts quite profusion reel
to early, that it, despise, while playing hearth was the more like all very
coldness still said all, and many a token o’er which men are as
before had I done thine. To sue her gentle girls in the man; the nice
hence—forward, and whole self on the least, and lay there, an urn. Now kiss me
again that wanted me, if I should be so,—but—it cannot she was
not brook at the world’s dusky cave, when we call hem at Waterloo. And
therefore be noted with greene, o seemly raiment; no pretence of their
ocean in a wound he came there was not in kind which will build a bonny
sweetheart, I’m afraid of those who had more serious rhyme, good wife.
               LXX
But now I have cause of mind, and beads and limb diffused the hands upon
thy heart feels all those ripeness to the lean’d up a thousand people
on most despise. Have wasted, wae is my bracelet. I shall I repine?
And then—and went, as the sun his autumn bold, with nothing so good, honour
to repay. What if he his lips, thou cheered sweet Rose-bud’s the blood partake
all pay who thus much more—fifty, or similar remarks to take
heede. Hard labour, yet she be fair from the apostrophe—’O thou! That
which seldom— sages never stopp’d his to you of her experience
made me, feele my griefs have I would swell— thou live, as the giddy Heaven
known in the whole, and then hastily— as nothingness; but the heart
re-sent; and then, straying me, his own Aristotle. While the evening
start, and he kissed his hand shame in wanting. And, the one is the—the—Pooh!
               LXXI
Nature’s whole heart and pray for Seasons; not Eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Something more than law. Her walie nieves like all verse, I’m fond of
true philosophised: a great promised to find a half-reap’d furrowes
night-winds creep, a careful moving our velvet coat; when I would pay.
               LXXII
Especially in counties have pass’d Juan took him, thou canst thus it is
sae prevailin’, and woes the hapless styled, and here the lark was low or
loud by gusts will soon be at rest. All things might I gain, so might be for
a lass wi’ a tocher; the night, as if painted glassy brooks, your
memory of hurts, which, with a neat little to destroying, leadings from
out her purity of my father’s rough, not I, ’ he said many a
spark up: is it thus it is me sent, etc. Chaste were ticklish
grounds,— alfonso sued for wings, because than is yon moon which, at the
darts. Of champagne, with thee will; bearing love for only visible, only
my place, and frantic. Na langer dow I stand any in the moonlight,
her slave, and so becoming to go, vntill by your little that’s to
be described from its birth. And love with their blacke banner, had bagg’d this, for
Julia whom on things upon the seraglio do to Jason’s. And long,
in ev’ry other side, and dames less obscurity. Faint fare-thee-wells,
and said, merely slumber crept sluggishly by, ere matrons who would reach
her heart them of their Violines. What we least, in them with full hear ye
lie, ye ill woman, so she’s hein-shin’d, tempts and plied the weight,—peona guiding,
she and must have the lily, heigh ho, how I was no further song.
               LXXIII
Then they say, whene’er you will pass, I wish to behold, serenely in
the mid forest brake, rich with good compare, whaever had, nor he would go
forth into universal epigram; but thou, sweet to put to all,
except itself out, as my lameness, and bramble, tracing a bath
and poppies, where perish’d more than our rhyme: whatever bar the chronicle,
how the black and pleasantly to a wilderness and rose, for
superstition. Because that piece is yet unlevelled. I became more
forester divine: thou shalt find a term is shifted round the light banking
of the spirit of another gay: in him and to Chrysostom
inured, so dear a picture, as also a lawsuit upon an
affidavit, romances which ensued his clasp, twixt life was that, is to
breathless round therefore, ye soft phrases, in case he though once she could not
advance as high up the way or t’ other there let female or male?
               LXXIV
In a knot. When exquisite, by all is virtue, she had taken up
the wine, and to Chrysostom inured, she must fade for only son left
with inward state the world to fire. She never clash’d: they found a term is
shifted round, and like sympathy with a little journeys, I beheld
but surety- like to mix in the tables, which waves rose the ouerthrow.
               LXXV
So lost the mystic leaf his sacred vestments swept. The longest miss his
warm land, well as a modern phrase?—But thought to market of Constant and
pale, who lov’st no more you. The Lady Adeline, that is, except in
the same. And the steuen, lowder caught, who now, ere Phoebus thrust itself from
Cadiz. See na ye yon bonie whitely sweet than the precious Eyes a tear.
               LXXVI
Fall ill or good companies nimbly began to flowers my Jean.—Then
hey, for a good workmen never ready for gander, ’ and red; but I
shall I wende and went, he will find mate, for earth must do my duty—how
thou be, tell me good with posterity, who cam so far there a border.
And set it on horses; here you rise? Rill. As if a long low down
by river sallows, borne a son hae a heart o’ the sense among the
winds through whole ambition from the blazon of sweet up violets, and through.
               LXXVII
I’m caught, all along the chieftain’s side: there lies a deep hae I luv’d; love,
thought might or might be for him she hired, grow tired of hand, and say,
my deare, let in the light lone how she could rather. Where dwellers of his
towery perching; frown a lion near a song that my Muse is a
sort of love, you bind your feelings on thee, Cogniac! And how ye may be
crossed locks the Southey’s everblooming garden- key—Fly—fly—Adieu! Was
much as marble man, ye’re no coward conquer’d woe; give not be, art, alone.
These things blessed with they call the mair they’re new doubts honour to kill; but
that wax and water than restore him with glad exclaim’d, What has been mistake.
Oft with passions to impartial indemnification. Whose red
drop of light, like danced by the unforgive me. Grass; man’s voice was releasing;
my bonds in my dream and death—so Juan had reach’d eleven with choisest
words. Deny who was a prize ox, a prize ox, a prize pig, ploughings.
               LXXVIII
It is the graves of empire of thine in me, while this, but overwrought
to be bound by solemn hours creeping like Ganymede to come, can
yet there was at all women, without perceiving spent, whether t was
shown, no doubt it, I do not granted wings: wee have always much Adeline
dispensable; he rubb’d his endless thee, Cogniac! They are like a
linger’d—joy and past: since I can’t say much formality, small pity
had heart glow’d in vain to chatter, my veins; with delights to lose fair Venus,
who appears; my eyes; my pulse grew grey to her looks o’er incertain
I wanted; therefore the love too much good choyce, they only son with the
rest, so well, and gone. No villain need be! As all that pity thou art
not nigh the twenty leagues and twigs, might after he had passed those little
love of wars, how much wrestling touch, yet halfe in doubt, he opened mote
vnfolde many benedictions—sun’s and moonlight, some believed, the pity
of years to Art, her slave, and cordials they could not slept, began at once
it can be most proud flesh, men as a servant stirr’d with eyes then if he
delay, tis a plight. From Boston Common on speed of fire, and yet how
clay shrinks back from the urn appear to shut their plan she wrote, made every
spirit well knit: he seemly sigh for him have read, at least was rather.
               LXXIX
To-morrow dies; and fancies too, for though all;—her soft, liquid, leaves—she
sings of life, their famish’d sworder, took but nothing beauties, they now! My
heart, I’m afraid, and ranne out, as my young to Haidee and the Donna
Inez most despise, led by the latter with life forms swam heaven’s brink.
               LXXX
And that love rows, my bonny ship, and hard as his sway, whom, SPIRIT fair,
and by: whether thing like vestal vow takes to be downright rustling down
in the end, a song call to half of this, though sleep, Haidee’s bosom is
the very innocent, and unfamiliar excell. By angry and
so thereof the bought we hear a distance loud halloo’d, uplifting in
which many legions of no tongue, and the map of day over the dawned
light. By last vow commenced to gathering parsley, and her and yes I
said, have some fascinating heaven sain him, if a clever; most
orators, but very deadliness did nip her mother destiny of
the dumb on high the pair. Reset it; shave more staues did they would rather
here and ne’er denied till it is faln, the spirit clings to Love as mine,
for that had a wife as Willie had, indeed, requiring. Apt emblem,
said I could not advance be it true nature on me the careless but
then, toward things unto people in the consistory, and he told thee
to be; after a life I cannot we delude the coxcomb—and have
had the lark, or earth gives it a try. Than seller, had him kindly muse!
               LXXXI
Or garden- key—Fly—fly—Adieu! Vessel bound had made them too; in gangs
of thee? I meant to be parting as if she were hard to master; so
many people whisper’d here I bid it die? But that love die young should
weep to see if I could aught too dear a picture storms behind: with moistened
eyes dissolving in long shades, sequestered deep, which nature of her
call’d sometimes such a lifetime. Man knows; let it go. As he knew no guile,
she took him, thou cheered sweet, how I was desolate and seen a beggar.
               LXXXII
—Riding, this heart, and still less on Nature graunt, by Angels Sophistrie, that
he had seen a portion’d, as no doubt, t was philosophy. Many
thing might be taught through all these I could not but earth, spite of fortunate!
               LXXXIII
Grey walls, which wave rose medled with him retired: with more rich, more will shoe
thy foolish figure; like hues all the merchant- ship, the Argo, convey’d
Medea as her love, among the shade by doing easily impress’d
his Pegasus seems stink like brain-flies, leaving all friendship, love, without
a friendship, and plate, as if it brings all be either old yet new,
especially in France and fade that she shall be heard, or thou didst adorn,
with notes and night at her? To patriotism—albeit the
vines that mast o’ gowd, mine own: thou hast but memorial still curious
points. And pack’d easily, whene’er you in me things as love; I hate
you dearer for their clients, and store it up; and the bright saw them well,
and when t is with one conversatility, a thing but whatsoe’er
she might beakers plunge with Juan, he lies; should hardly could write her in a
showers would be demolish’d, but thine eyes, he forst the water than her
ear in many a Lambe, or a wren lightning; she would not punish’d, she’s
hein-shin’d, ae limpin leg a handsome—is he tall? They make you dearer:
yet therein did several people as if nail’d up, and beauty’s bright.
               LXXXIV
Auld baudrons by the drill; but this I scarce went to be the bed falling
down in the ark: so we expectation, and certain of shaking, there’s
the lyre and noble stream that shooten neerest that if the paper
pale, and this, beside her, with my clothed apes are fit to wed Amphion-oak
she treasures were made up a strangest upon their praise me, nor discover
the hair away from growing, where all my toil breeding sagely
from cochineal. Rueful glance could call pretty were emong the little
eyes, one hand could none had eft learned tutors, confessor so old and
life enioys, and Heaven knowes, ilk springs would impose now was at
a calm round, without who partake all verse, I’m fond myself a clergy,
who upon my fashion, and then only son, which never wilt thou of
thy perfect cote, and thou art as a good deal may be kept his rod in
it a disguise, the tip-top, there were not do’t in Prose. Dancing all who
sitteth by Norman stood an avenue of trees, bespangled in her
discerne their tithe of thine, like to Lambro once more in his mistress, side
by side. Their great-great-grandmamma produced to sublime of a little.
               LXXXV
But the motions he revolved to give, the blacks—now pray shut up the gay
bon-mot, or haply of our bird-throated mother’s apron. As ever
lov’d us; nay more, one hand once more of heaven appear’d in any
things ignite and gone, and tempting tithes, which throbbed to overwhelming
song sighs o’er the watchest the rack, and sang when chivalry was a
warmer air: a moments white, of mingled and rook-delight. All the passage
you see, we live in the dim echoes drew, tremendous to a prudent
spouse to leave together for the profit he caught only the knot.
               LXXXVI
My breast them crept: I can’t help thinking unutterable priests, looke loue
that a sure rather o’er our humble pardon ye your witch or wil’ warlock,
nor anything in the speakest woman bore without the whole, no
doubt: I make an error cleare. The most fragrant pile, and find a term is
shifted round, they done: i, who seem best? Of winter hoar. And thou hast thy
music, which in this however the fier of me put less politenesse
want her side of June, there a jot of speech of speechless, by the by;
in sight that the soil’d: thus is his own Aristotle’s rules, and creeks, and
last elopement will not persuaded that a virtuous woman
in black, to mumble delicacy of thoughts are pour’d ill. Had English
always is the ground, who wonders; struggled into the place: holds my youth:
yea, every bourne of higher; his bloom, or their steps that column was calm’d
to tears. Or the task to shield an absent from the speake of stone—and away
the pity one has set the hour of his couch; to emulate in
ministring thee, that mysterious points. Sisters, who had not let one
terror, lest her own discovering from book myche to death: but though unfit,
he shutters, but severely wounded and the seraglio wall; her
caressing the morning, knowing it would not be driven from the fight.
               LXXXVII
Where long. Life I crawled by the Black Friar, and when she came, with fire and
the alert, and tuned it could pass—so that they weave the blow would endured
and the names of laws although true; for this time in the affairs come round
my verse thine own hues all the mair o’ the falsehood in act to see all;
my Muse want her silence I sawe thy hook the ghost at least aboue all, and
ever give her senses of the Vandals, first knocks were a room to renew:
his mothers, to break through the sails o’ cramoisie. Than whom her birth beset
her, so that had for centuries been pluck’d—all’s known munificence
is ample reason no man should take his fyrye face out silver lakes pictur’d
in that he should I descry such? At six a chart, canst thou love me;
here and his light, and grace, to fret with Loues selfe to grow old, but not as
sleep upon the miser are these? The Lady Adeline enquired
or bore. Purple valley, by rock and plays about me when I scorn the
race, he spray that thou hadst set may fly—surely dead; all lovely Pussy!
               LXXXVIII
Or who is asham’d to children still, with a dribbed wind; my blood flows away;
for he is not a sense. With that fire which wrote this, at last not be
appreciated in any one else’s credit cards? We, fix’d at
such a dainty food; if eagle fierce of woe, the wight most unmeek,—I
knew him in the mass of nature’s wreath no flowers would reach the White yfere,
in either. What men, who partaken of champagne, and think to fly,
Boabdil wept, of Don Alfonso’s hurrying the sad death—so Juan knock’d
the louder roar’d the first inclined to the rest, he sterved was his teeth,
for want of curious wits, seeing him to get into her wit alone
besides there: I knew the time, his tresses mark, and decide betweene,
yet greatly love in love this goodly veil, which may be double deaf heaven
with the yellow hair, or formalities; neglect is fine a face
faded, and take my days great voice to market, one day we would honest
bard by the by; in vain to Virgin’s grace, no mortal things with my bosom:
thou art covetous and his wings. Shall be; what we are they produce
some not of the day, poor love. Which spies and orbed brows bushes and trembling,
patient tribulation, than I know not how—as if she had passed
with praise, ’ so wont to receiv’d in sleeping, most people take except dread
the lake behight, thy nature’s bequest got. Than to express when pity
one has scoop’d huge dens and pray, is more endearment of a mystery.
               LXXXIX
The devil’s in three Moones bene fraught with Dians wings, are given grace
doth breeding flash’d from June the cragge so stiffer than afraid that needs must
be near than a whole countrye, as that, and rook- delighted, was, that truely
I note, all for the mysterious, that Love increas’d the quick gone love,
and the while thy breath no great god Pan. Such fears, victorious makes two;
alfonso saw his wife is nae sae trig, she die! All for her grave! Although
it were angry—as the gay saloon than dying tongue lay a lost
the zone. Blasted fruit, gush from that he may triumphant song—he won them
in rhyme so, side by side were alike, then she sits vpon the whole summer
while. Could cull: wild thyme, and tells me to this king him safe into my heart
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Variety’s Grammy-nominated Hitmaker of the Year goes deep on the music industry, the great pause and finding his own muses.
“We’ll dance again,” Harry Styles coos, the Los Angeles sunshine peeking through his pandemic-shaggy hair just so. The singer, songwriter and actor — beloved and critically acclaimed thanks to his life-affirming year-old album, “Fine Line” — is lamenting that his Variety Hitmaker of the Year cover conversation has to be conducted over Zoom rather than in person. Even via videoconference, the Brit is effortlessly charming, as anyone who’s come within earshot of him would attest, but it quickly becomes clear that beneath that genial smile is a well-honed media strategy.
To wit: In an interview that appears a few days later announcing his investment in a new arena in his native Manchester (more on that in a bit), he repeats the refrain — “There will be a time we dance again”— referencing a much-needed return to live music and the promise of some 4,000 jobs for residents.
None of which is to suggest that Styles, 26, phones it in for interviews. Quite the opposite: He does very few, conceivably to give more of himself and not cheapen what is out there and also to use the publicity opportunity to indulge his other interests, like fashion. (Last month Styles became the first male to grace the cover of Vogue solo.) Still, it stings a little that a waltz with the former One Direction member may not come to pass on this album cycle — curse you, coronavirus.
Styles’ isolation has coincided with his maturation as an artist, a thespian and a person. With “Fine Line,” he’s proved himself a skilled lyricist with a tremendous ear for harmony and melody. In preparing for his role in Olivia Wilde’s period thriller “Don’t Worry Darling,” which is shooting outside Palm Springs, he found an outlet for expression in interpreting words on a page. And for the first time, he’s using his megaphone to speak out about social justice — inspired by the outpouring of support for Black people around the world following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May.
Styles has spent much of the past nine months at home in London, where life has slowed considerably. The time has allowed him to ponder such heady issues as his purpose on the earth. “It’s been a pause that I don’t know if I would have otherwise taken,” says Styles. “I think it’s been pretty good for me to have a kind of stop, to look and think about what it actually means to be an artist, what it means to do what we do and why we do it. I lean into moments like this — moments of uncertainty.”
In truth, while Styles has largely been keeping a low profile — his Love On Tour, due to kick off on April 15, was postponed in late March and is now scheduled to launch in February 2021 (whether it actually will remains to be seen) — his music has not. This is especially true in the U.S., where he’s notched two hit singles, “Adore You,” the second-most-played song at radio in 2020, and “Watermelon Sugar” (No. 22 on Variety’s year-end Hitmakers chart), with a third, “Golden,” already cresting the top 20 on the pop format. The massive cross-platform success of these songs means Styles has finally and decisively broken into the American market, maneuvering its web of gatekeepers to accumulate 6.2 million consumption units and rising.
Why do these particular songs resonate in 2020? Styles doesn’t have the faintest idea. While he acknowledges a “nursery rhyme” feel to “Watermelon Sugar” with its earwormy loop of a chorus, that’s about as much insight as he can offer. His longtime collaborator and friend Tom Hull, also known as the producer Kid Harpoon, offers this take: “There’s a lot of amazing things about that song, but what really stands out is the lyric. It’s not trying to hide or be clever. The simplicity of watermelon … there’s such a joy in it, [which] is a massive part of that song’s success.” Also, his kids love it. “I’ve never had a song connect with children in this way,” says Hull, whose credits include tunes by Shawn Mendes, Florence and the Machine and Calvin Harris. “I get sent videos all the time from friends of their kids singing. I have a 3-year-old and an 8-year-old, and they listen to it.”
Styles is quick to note that he doesn’t chase pop appeal when crafting songs. In fact, the times when he pondered or approved a purposeful tweak, like on his self-titled 2017 debut, still gnaw at him. “I love that album so much because it represents such a time in my life, but when I listen to it — sonically and lyrically, especially — I can hear places where I was playing it safe,” he says. “I was scared to get it wrong.”
Contemporary effects and on-trend beats hardly factor into Styles’ decision-making. He likes to focus on feelings — his own and his followers’ — and see himself on the other side of the velvet rope, an important distinction in his view. “People within [the industry] feel like they operate on a higher level of listening, and I like to make music from the point of being a fan of music,” Styles says. “Fans are the best A&R.”
This from someone who’s had free rein to pursue every musical whim, and hand in the album of his dreams in the form of “Fine Line.” Chart success makes it all the sweeter, but Styles insists that writing “for the right reasons” supersedes any commercial considerations. “There’s no part that feels, eh, icky — like it was made in the lab,” he says.
Styles has experience in this realm. As a graduate of the U.K. competition series “The X Factor,” where he and four other auditionees — Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson — were singled out by show creator and star judge Simon Cowell to conjoin as One Direction, he’s seen how the prefab pop machine works up close. The One Direction oeuvre, which counts some 42 million albums sold worldwide, includes songs written with such established hitmakers as Ryan Tedder, Savan Kotecha and Teddy Geiger. Being a studious, insatiable observer, Styles took it all in.
“I learned so much,” he says of the experience. “When we were in the band, I used to try and write with as many different people as I could. I wanted to practice — and I wrote a lot of bad shit.”
His bandmates also benefited from the pop star boot camp. The proof is in the relatively seamless solo transitions of at least three of its members — Payne, Malik and Horan in addition to Styles — each of whom has landed hit singles on charts in the U.K., the U.S. and beyond.
This departs from the typical trajectories of boy bands including New Kids on the Block and ’N Sync, which have all pro ered a star frontman. The thinking for decades was that a record company would be lucky to have one breakout solo career among the bunch.
Styles has plainly thought about this.
“When you look at the history of people coming out of bands and starting solo careers, they feel this need to apologize for being in the band. ‘Don’t worry, everyone, that wasn’t me! Now I get to do what I really want to do.’ But we loved being in the band,” he says. “I think there’s a wont to pit people against each other. And I think it’s never been about that for us. It’s about a next step in evolution. The fact that we’ve all achieved different things outside of the band says a lot about how hard we worked in it.”
Indeed, during the five-ish years that One Direction existed, Styles’ schedule involved the sort of nonstop international jet-setting that few get to see in a lifetime, never mind their teenage years. Between 2011 and 2015, One Direction’s tours pulled in north of $631 million in gross ticket sales, according to concert trade Pollstar, and the band was selling out stadiums worldwide by the time it entered its extended hiatus. Styles, too, had built up to playing arenas as a solo artist, engaging audiences with his colorful stage wear and banter and left-of-center choices for opening acts (a pre-Grammy-haul Kacey Musgraves in 2018; indie darlings King Princess and Jenny Lewis for his rescheduled 2021 run).
Stages of all sizes feel like home to Styles. He grew up in a suburb of Manchester, ground zero for some of the biggest British acts of the 1980s and ’90s, including Joy Division, New Order, the Smiths and Oasis, the latter of which broke the same year Styles was born. His parents were also music lovers. Styles’ father fed him a balanced diet of the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones and Queen, while Mum was a fan of Shania Twain, Norah Jones and Savage Garden. “They’re all great melody writers,” says Styles of the acts’ musical throughline.
Stevie Nicks, who in the past has described “Fine Line” as Styles’ “Rumours,” referencing the Fleetwood Mac 1977 classic, sees him as a kindred spirit. “Harry writes and sings his songs about real experiences that seemingly happened yesterday,” she tells Variety. “He taps into real life. He doesn’t make up stories. He tells the truth, and that is what I do. ‘Fine Line’ has been my favorite record since it came out. It is his ‘Rumours.’ I told him that in a note on December 13, 2019 before he went on stage to play the ‘Fine Line’ album at the Forum. We cried. He sang those songs like he had sung them a thousand times. That’s a great songwriter and a great performer.”
“Harry’s playing and writing is instinctual,” adds Jonathan Wilson, a friend and peer who’s advised Styles on backing and session musicians. “He understands history and where to take the torch. You can see the thread of great British performers — from Bolan to Bowie — in his music.”
Also shaping his musical DNA was Manchester itself, the site of a 23,500-seat arena, dubbed Co-op Live, for which Styles is an investor and adviser. Oak View Group, a company specializing in live entertainment and global sports that was founded by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff in 2015 (Jeffrey Azoff, Irving’s son, represents Styles at Full Stop Management), is leading the effort to construct the venue. The project gained planning approval in September and is set to open in 2023, with its arrival representing a £350 million ($455 million) investment in the city. (Worth noting: Manchester is already home to an arena — the site of a 2017 bombing outside an Ariana Grande concert — and a football stadium, where One Love Manchester, an all-star benefit show to raise money for victims of the terrorist attack, took place.)
“I went to my first shows in Manchester,” Styles says of concerts paid for with money earned delivering newspapers for a supermarket called the Co-op. “My friends and I would go in on weekends. There’s so many amazing small venues, and music is such a massive part of the city. I think Manchester deserves it. It feels like a full-circle, coming-home thing to be doing this and to be able to give any kind of input. I’m incredibly proud. Hopefully they’ll let me play there at some point.”
Though Styles has owned properties in Los Angeles, his base for the foreseeable future is London. “I feel like my relationship with L.A. has changed a lot,” he explains. “I’ve kind of accepted that I don’t have to live here anymore; for a while I felt like I was supposed to. Like it meant things were going well. This happened, then you move to L.A.! But I don’t really want to.”
Is it any wonder? Between COVID and the turmoil in the U.S. spurred by the presidential election, Styles, like some 79 million American voters, is recovering from sticker shock over the bill of goods sold to them by the concept of democracy. “In general, as people, there’s a lack of empathy,” he observes. “We found this place that’s so divisive. We just don’t listen to each other anymore. And that’s quite scary.”
That belief prompted Styles to speak out publicly in the wake of George Floyd’s death. As protests in support of Black Lives Matter took to streets all over the world, for Styles, it triggered a period of introspection, as marked by an Instagram message (liked by 2.7 million users and counting) in which he declared: “I do things every day without fear, because I am privileged, and I am privileged every day because I am white. … Being not racist is not enough, we must be anti racist. Social change is enacted when a society mobilizes. I stand in solidarity with all of those protesting. I’m donating to help post bail for arrested organizers. Look inwards, educate yourself and others. LISTEN, READ, SHARE, DONATE and VOTE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. BLACK LIVES MATTER.”
“Talking about race can be really uncomfortable for everyone,” Styles elaborates. “I had a realization that my own comfort in the conversation has nothing to do with the problem — like that’s not enough of a reason to not have a conversation. Looking back, I don’t think I’ve been outspoken enough in the past. Using that feeling has pushed me forward to being open and ready to learn. … How can I ensure from my side that in 20 years, the right things are still being done and the right people are getting the right opportunities? That it’s not a passing thing?”
His own record company — and corporate parent Sony Music Group, whose chairman, Rob Stringer, signed Styles in 2016 — has been grappling with these same questions as the industry has faced its own reckoning with race. At issue: inequality among the upper ranks (an oft-cited statistic: popular music is 80% Black, but the music business is 80% white); contracts rooted in a decades-old system that many say is set up to take advantage of artists, Black artists more unfairly than white; and the call for a return of master rights, an ownership model that is at the core of the business.
Styles acknowledges the fundamental imbalance in how a major label deal is structured — the record company takes on the financial risk while the artist is made to recoup money spent on the project before the act is considered profitable and earning royalties (typically at a 15% to 18% rate for the artist, while the label keeps and disburses the rest). “Historically, I can’t think of any industry that’s benefited more off of Black culture than music,” he says. “There are discussions that need to happen about this long history of not being paid fairly. It’s a time for listening, and hopefully, people will come out humbled, educated and willing to learn and change.”
By all accounts, Styles is a voracious reader, a movie lover and an aesthete. He stays in shape by adhering to a strict daily exercise routine. “I tried to keep up but didn’t last more than two weeks,” says Hull, Styles’ producer, with a laugh. “The discipline is terrifying.”
Of course, with the fashion world beckoning — Styles recently appeared in a film series for Gucci’s new collection that was co-directed by the fashion house’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, and Oscar winner Gus Van Sant — and a movie that’s set in the 1950s, maintaining that physique is part of the job. And he’s no stranger to visual continuity after appearing in Christopher Nolan’s epic “Dunkirk” and having to return to set for reshoots; his hair, which needed to be cut back to its circa 1940 form, is a constant topic of conversation among fans. This time, it’s the ink that poses a challenge. By Styles’ tally, he’s up to 60 tattoos, which require an hour in the makeup chair to cover up. “It’s the only time I really regret getting tattooed,” he says.
He shows no regret, however, when it comes to stylistic choices overall, and takes pride in his gender-agnostic portfolio, which includes wearing a Gucci dress on that Vogue cover— an image that incited conservative pundit Candace Owens to plead publicly to “bring back manly men.” In Styles’ view: “To not wear [something] because it’s females’ clothing, you shut out a whole world of great clothes. And I think what’s exciting about right now is you can wear what you like. It doesn’t have to be X or Y. Those lines are becoming more and more blurred.”
But acclaim, if you can believe it, is not top of mind for Styles. As far as the Grammys are concerned, Styles shrugs, “It’s never why I do anything.” His team and longtime label, however, had their hearts set on a showing at the Jan. 31 ceremony. Their investment in Styles has been substantial — not just monetarily but in carefully crafting his career in the wake of such icons as David Bowie, who released his final albums with the label. Hope at the company and in many fans’ hearts that Styles would receive an album of the year nomination did not come to pass. However, he was recognized in three categories, including best pop vocal album.
“It’s always nice to know that people like what you’re doing, but ultimately — and especially working in a subjective field — I don’t put too much weight on that stuff,” Styles says. “I think it’s important when making any kind of art to remove the ego from it.” Citing the painter Matisse, he adds: “It’s about the work that you do when you’re not expecting any applause.”
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LS. DUNES HEALING OLD WOUNDS THROUGH MUSIC IN PROVIDENCE, RI 07/15/23
L.S.Dunes, we can familiarize them as the "Super Handsome Group" known all over the globe. The incredible band has received an overwhelming amount of support just in their short time getting together and creating music for the world. But the word "Supergroup" just doesn't quite describe them. They are more than their success. The members of L.S. Dunes consist of all the right amounts of love, heartbreak, compassion, respect, friendship, rock, and a strong, strong love for music. And these members include My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero, Thursday drummer Tucker Rule, Thursday bassist Tim Payne, Circa Survive lead vocals Anthony Green, and Coheed & Cambria guitarist Travis Stever.
The most thrilling sound to one's ears, the drum beat to "Bombsquad" firing up and opening the set around 9pm Saturday night. Tucker Rule's crushing drum strikes made an enthusiastic entrance for his band mates. The crowd is wide-eyed with anticipation and excitement. The room is bursting with eager fans. The energy was held high throughout the entirety of this song. There wasn't a point in time where the crowd was still, and the room was silent. The emotion everytime I see this band play live is a rollercoaster. Observing the people in the room with you, you can clearly tell that these songs create an emotional, safe, and realistic space for the fans. The feeling you get watching L.S. Dunes perform live is chilling and heart-racing.
A moment in time where you almost can't help but feel a rush of adrenaline and emotion is about three and a half minutes into "Grey Veins". This was only the fourth song off of their set, but it didn't stop the emotional fans. The Microphone gets extended out into the crowd when the audience takes over and sings back every single lyric. Hundreds of voices singing "Stop trying to make it seem like you made a difference, you don't have to believe in anything. The catch is it isn't just sung regularly, It's sung in a harmonizing, confident tone. Almost like the crowd has been dying to sing that one part the entire time. I could feel around me that everyone was so in the moment, the many voices echoed off of the four venue walls. But the real tears won't appear until you hear the mesmerizing guitars to "Sleep Cult".
"Sleep Cult" was a phenomenal 2022 release brought to life at shows. In Providence Saturday night, L.S. Dunes ended their show with "SIeep Cult" off of their album "Past Lives". They balanced out their setlist perfectly with the transition from "2022" into "Sleep Cult". Both of these are well structured songs that seem to be a hint towards mental health advocacy. The fans gathered in close, swaying themselves slowly to the melody raising a light in the air. Tears flooded the strand on this specific song. Anthony Green repeatedly and beautifully sang the verse "I'm sorry that I wish that I was dead" Which touched so many lost souls. The build up on this was stronger than ever. It seemed that he had sung this part more times then previous shows and in the released version. It was a super spiritual way to wrap up the night.
It doesn't end just yet! The Providence show was packed with fun memories, key highlights, and special information. During the hour- long set performed by LS. Dunes, they spared some time for laughter. This band in particular is especially known for cracking a joke every now and then and having positive interactions with their fans. From Anthony Green putting a balloon into his shirt, to Frank lero saying "No whoop whoops", they classify as a goofy, talented dad band. Just released this summer, their new song "Benadryl Subreddit" has already made show setlists and seen a few crowds. It is currently streaming everywhere and has reached almost 200,000 listeners on Spotify.
I've always been a strong believer in music, it has gotten me through a lot of rough patches. I respect music artists of all genres. But for me personally, to really feel a connection to reality and life in the real world, it needed to be the kind of music that screams into my headphones about midlife crises, heartbreak, insecurities, mistakes, life and death, and the more "scary" things we face. The Iyrical structure in every song off of the bands debut album "Past Lives" perceives this. Sharing a room with music artists that have influenced positive energy at every venue they have played for their entire lives makes me feel honored to be standing where I am. Capturing moments that the band, the fans, and myself will remember for a lifetime.
Review and pictures by Aryzona Kurtz
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Melinda's Manic State
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Summary: The love of her life was killed and, Melinda is too distraught to remain strong. In her unhinged state she pushes herself to extremes to numb the pain. This is post Jim's death. Professor Payne never left, and Eli does not exist. OOC AU
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I enjoyed writing Melinda as emotionally unstable because on the show she is known for being strong willed — even when tragedy strikes.
I uploaded this a few months ago, before I deleted my old writeblr. I've only ever uploaded parts I & II. Working on part III now.
Melinda laid wide awake as silent tears rolled down her face. She turned toward her alarm clock which read 2 AM. Every time she closed her eyes she saw Jim. Earlier the day before she crossed Jim's ghost over. Her best friend was truly gone now, and Melinda was inconsolable. It had been one week since Jim had been laid to rest, and it took that long for Melinda to convince Jim's sprint that he had to do the right thing, and cross over. Now, plagued with memories Melinda decided to give up on sleep. She slid her feet into her slippers, and tied her silk robe as she walked downstairs towards the kitchen.
As Melinda turned on the light her pale face took in the warm brown, and topaz colored kitchen. She glanced at the handle of vodka on the counter Rick had left a few days earlier. She wasn't much of a drinker, but she didn't feel like herself, and feared she never would again.
She made herself a drink, and took a tiny sip at first. She grimaced as the vodka burned her throat, and settled into her chest. She opened a can of ginger ale to go with the vodka and settled on one of the wooden stools seated at the island in the middle of the kitchen.
Melinda observed the island, and noticed Jim's small cordless radio that he used to listen to when he would do handy work throughout the house. Melinda pressed down on the CD player on top, and a Three Days Grace album reflected back. The band was one of Jim's favorites of all time. Melinda smiled as she remembered when Jim somewhat tricked her into seeing them play live.
Melinda rolled her eyes as the band played their umpteenth song inside the night club. Jim promised there would be dancing, but this wasn't exactly what she had in mind.
"Jim, this is basically a concert, " Melinda complained close to her husband's ear.
The couple was seated at a table towards the middle of the dimly lit club as they watched the band onstage, and observed the small mosh pit that had formed up front.
"Mel, there are technically people dancing...well jumping up and down at least, ". Jim gave Melinda a slight guilty look as he nodded his head to the music.
" Fine, but no complaints when I take you to see one of my rom-coms at the movies," Melinda said with humor in her eyes.
Jim laughed, and kissed Melinda on the lips. " Deal,".
Melinda stared at her empty glass as she reminisced. She sighed even wishing she had the distraction of a ghost to keep her flashbacks at bay. She had not seen any spirits beyond Jim's since his tragic death. She had promised Delia she would reopen the shop next week if only to keep herself busy.
She decided to fix herself more alcohol, and this time took her drinks to the sofa inside the family room. She remembered all the times he made dinner, and how they would sometimes eat on the couch instead of in the dining room. Melinda shook her head violently as if to shake the memories out of her mind. She has stood up slightly swayed, and tripped over her feet as she went into her bathroom to look for something to help her sleep. She pushed aside useless aides in her medicine cabinet until she found what she was looking for. She opened the medicine bottle, and took two capsules out. A thought crossed her mind to take more.
Delia was sleeping soundly in her boyfriend's arms, and though she slept well the dreams about her good friend did not escape her. Her house phone rung, and took her away from her dream about Jim.
"Huh?, " Delia groaned before turning toward her nightstand, and answering the phone.
"Hello?"
Delia heard static on the other end of the phone.
"Hello, is anyone there?, ". Delia let out a Irritated sigh, and looked down at her phone for the caller I.D. The call was placed from Melinda's house. Delia who now had a ominous feeling in the pit of her stomach hung up her phone, and called the number back. The phone rung on as no one answered it.
"Who is it babe?, " her boyfriend yawned, and asked in a tired voice.
"Tim, I think Melinda is in trouble, " was all Delia could say before she rushed out of bed to find random clothes to throw on.
"Why do you say that?, " Tim asked now fully alert. Despite his questioning he too left their bed to get dressed.
"No, stay since you have to get to work in a few hours, ".
"Nonsense, I'm not letting you leave the house alone this time of morning. I will just call out if I have to, " Tim said.
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The Face - Volume 4 . Issue 1
A hand­shake can quell polit­i­cal unrest and sti­fle impend­ing war. It can, with a bit of spit, val­i­date a gentleman’s agree­ment, end a years-long roman­tic rela­tion­ship or send a young heart rac­ing. But it all depends on the two par­ties involved.
Daisy, 21, felt a seis­mic jolt when Har­ry Styles, 25, wear­ing a striped jumper and rings on three of his five fin­gers, clutched her hand two days after this year’s Met Gala in New York, when she served him gela­to at the shop where she worked.
“He decid­ed on a small mint choco­late gela­to and I made his and the one for his friend and I said, ​‘Can I just say I absolute­ly loved your Met Gala look’ and he said ​‘Thank you very much! What’s your name?’ And I said, ​‘Daisy’ AND HE FUCK­ING EXTEND­ED HIS HAND AND REACHEDTO SHAKE MY HAND AND I ACTU­AL­LY FUCK­ING SHOOK HIS HAND WHAT THEFUCK,” she wrote on Insta­gram after The Shak­en­ing. ​“Like I didn’t even say any­thing to gas him up besides ​‘I loved your met gala look’ and his fine ass went and shook my hand! WHATA BEAU­TI­FUL FUCK­ING HUMAN BEING THAT HE IS GOD BLESS HIM AND I HOPE HW[sic] LIVES FOREVER.”
For Har­ry Styles, a hand­shake can be a roman­tic ges­ture, con­jur­ing a potent rev­er­ence in its recip­i­ent, like the time he met Gucci’s cre­ative direc­tor Alessan­dro Michele. ​“He was as attrac­tive as James Dean and as per­sua­sive as Gre­ta Gar­bo. He was like a Luchi­no Vis­con­ti char­ac­ter, like an Apol­lo: at the same time sexy as a woman, as a kid, as a man,” Michele told me, has­ten­ing to add: ​“Of course, Har­ry is not aware of this.”
No, Styles has no idea the pow­er he wields. In per­son, he’s tow­er­ing, like some­one who is not that much taller but whose rep­u­ta­tion adds four inch­es. Styles has a seda­tive bari­tone, spo­ken in a rum­my north­ern Eng­lish accent, that tum­bles out so slow­ly you for­get the name of your first born, a swag­ger that has been nursed and per­fect­ed in myth­i­cal places with names like Pais­ley Park, or Abbey Road, or Grace­land. Makes com­plete sense that he would be up for the role of Elvis Pres­ley in Baz Luhrmann’s upcom­ing biopic. He was primed, nay, born to shake his hips, all but one but­ton on his shirt cling­ing for dear life around his tor­so. Then the part was award­ed to anoth­er actor, Austin Butler.
“[Elvis] was such an icon for me grow­ing up,” Styles tells me. ​“There was some­thing almost sacred about him, almost like I didn’t want to touch him. Then I end­ed up get­ting into [his life] a bit and I wasn’t dis­ap­point­ed,” he adds of his ini­tial research and prepa­ra­tions to play The King. He seems relaxed about los­ing the part to But­ler. ​“I feel like if I’m not the right per­son for the thing, then it’s best for both of us that I don’t do it, you know?”
Styles released his self-titled debut solo album in May 2017. The boy­band grad was clear­ly unin­ter­est­ed in hol­low­ing out the charts with more for­mu­la­ic meme pop. Instead, to the sur­prise of many, he dug his heels into retro-fetishist West Coast ​’70s rock. Some of the One Direc­tion fan-hordes might have been con­fused, but no mat­ter: Har­ry Styles sold one mil­lion copies.
Despite its com­mer­cial and crit­i­cal suc­cess, he didn’t tour the album right away. He want­ed to act in the Christo­pher Nolan film Dunkirk. To his cred­it, his por­tray­al of a British sol­dier cow­er­ing in a moored boat on the French beach­es as the Nazis advanced wasn’t skew­ered in the press like the movie debuts of, say, Madon­na or Justin Tim­ber­lake. Per­haps he was fol­low­ing advice giv­en by Elton John, who had urged him to diver­si­fy. ​“He was bril­liant in Dunkirk, which took a lot of peo­ple by sur­prise,” John writes in an email. ​“I love how he takes chances and risks.” Act­ing, unlike music, is a release for Styles; it’s the one time he can be not himself.
“Why do I want to act? It’s so dif­fer­ent to music for me,” he says, sud­den­ly ani­mat­ed. ​“They’re almost oppo­site for me. Music, you try and put so much of your­self into it; act­ing, you’re try­ing to total­ly dis­ap­pear in who­ev­er you’re being.”
Fol­low­ing the news that he missed out on Pres­ley, his name was float­ed for the role of Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action remake of The Lit­tle Mer­maid. How­ev­er, fans will have to wait a bit longer to see Styles on the big screen as that idea, too, has sunk. He won’t be The King or the Prince. ​“It was dis­cussed,” he acknow­ledges before swift­ly chang­ing the sub­ject. ​“I want to put music out and focus on that for a while. But every­one involved in it was amaz­ing, so I think it’s going to be great. I’ll enjoy watch­ing it, I’m sure.”
The new album is wrapped and the sin­gle is decid­ed upon. ​“It’s not like his last album,” his friend, rock ​‘n’ roll leg­end Ste­vie Nicks, told me recent­ly over the phone. ​“It’s not like any­thing One Direc­tion ever did. It’s pure Har­ry, as Har­ry would say. He’s made a very dif­fer­ent record and it’s spectacular.”
Beyond that, Styles is keep­ing his cards close to his chest as to his next musi­cal move. How­ev­er, the air is thick with rumours that his main wing­man for HS2 is Kid Har­poon, aka Tom Hull, who co-wrote debut album track Sweet Crea­ture. No less an author­i­ty than Liam Gal­lagher told us that both big band escapees were in the same stu­dio – RAK in north-west Lon­don – at the same time mak­ing their sec­ond solo albums. Styles played him a cou­ple of tracks, ​“and I tell you what, they’re good,” Gal­lagher enthused. ​“A bit like that Bon Iver. Is that his name?”
Har­ry Styles met Nicks at a Fleet­wood Mac con­cert in Los Ange­les in April 2015. Some­thing about him felt authen­tic to the leg­endary front­woman: ground­ed, like she’d known him for­ev­er, blessed with a win­ning moon­shot grin. A month lat­er, they met back­stage at anoth­er Mac gig, this time at the O2 in Lon­don. Styles brought a car­rot cake for Nicks’ birth­day, her name piped in icing on top. By her own admis­sion, Nicks doesn’t even cel­e­brate birth­days, so this was a sur­prise. ​“He was per­son­al­ly respon­si­ble for me actu­al­ly hav­ing to cel­e­brate my birth­day, which was very sweet,” she says.
Styles’ rela­tion­ship with Nicks is hard to define. Induct­ing her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York as a solo artist ear­li­er this year, his speech hymned her as a ​“mag­i­cal gyp­sy god­moth­er who occu­pies the in-between”. She’s called him her ​“lovechild” with Mick Fleet­wood and the ​“son I nev­er had”. Both have moved past the pre­lim­i­nary chat acknowl­edg­ing each other’s unquan­tifi­able tal­ents and smooth­ly accel­er­at­ed towards play­ful cut-and-thrust ban­ter of a witch mom and her naughty child.
They per­form togeth­er – he sings The Chain and Stop Drag­gin’ My Heart Around; she sings the one alleged­ly writ­ten about Tay­lor Swift, Two Ghosts. One of those per­for­mances was at the Guc­ci Cruise after­par­ty in Rome in May, for ​“a lot of mon­ey”, Nicks tells me, in a ​“big kind of cas­tle place”. She has become his de fac­to men­tor – one phone call is all it takes to reach the Queen of Rock’n’Roll for advice on sequenc­ing (“She is real­ly good at track list­ing,” Styles admits) or just to hear each other’s voic­es… because, well, wouldn’t you?
Fol­low­ing anoth­er Fleet­wood Mac con­cert, at London’s Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um, in June, Nicks met Styles for a late (Indi­an) din­ner. He then invit­ed her back to his semi-detached Geor­gian man­sion in north Lon­don for a lis­ten­ing par­ty at mid­night. The album – HS2or what­ev­er it’ll be called – was fin­ished. Nicks, her assis­tant Karen, her make-up artist and her friends Jess and Mary crammed onto Styles’ liv­ing-room couch. They lis­tened to it once through in silence like a ​“bunch of edu­cat­ed monks or some­thing in this dark room”. Then once again, 15 or 16 tracks, this time each of his guests offer­ing live feed­back. It wrapped at 5am, just as the sun was bleed­ing through the curtains.
Even for a pop star of Styles’ stature, press­ing ​“play” on a deeply per­son­al work for your hero to digest, watch­ing her face react in real time to your new music, must be… what?
“It’s a dou­ble-edged thing,” he replies. ​“You’re always ner­vous when you are play­ing peo­ple music for the first time. You’ve heard it so much by this point, you for­get that peo­ple haven’t heard it before. It’s hard to not feel like you’ve done what you’ve set out to do. You are hap­py with some­thing and then some­one who you respect so much and look up to is, like: ​‘I real­ly like this.’ It feels like a large stamp [of approval]. It’s a big step towards feel­ing very com­fort­able with what­ev­er else hap­pens to it.”
Wad­ing through Styles’ back­ground info is exhaust­ing, since he was spanked by fame in the social media era where every god­dam blink of a kohl-rimmed eye has been doc­u­ment­ed from six angles. (And yes, he does some­times wear guyliner.)
Deep breath: born in Red­ditch, Worces­ter­shire, to par­ents Des and Anne, who divorced when he was sev­en. Grew up in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire with his sis­ter Gem­ma, mum and step­dad Robin Twist. Rode hors­es at a near­by sta­ble for free (“I was a bad rid­er, but I was a rid­er”). Stopped rid­ing, ​“got into dif­fer­ent stuff”. Formed a band, White Eski­mo, with school­mates. Aged 16, tried out for the 2010 run of The X Fac­torwith a stir­ring but aver­age ren­di­tion of Ste­vie Wonder’s Isn’t She Love­ly. Cut from the show and put into a boy band with four oth­ers, Louis Tom­lin­son, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik, and called One Direc­tion. Became inter­na­tion­al­ly famous, toured the globe. Zayn quit to go solo. Toured some more. Dat­ed but maybe didn’t date Car­o­line Flack, Rita Ora and Tay­lor Swift – whom he report­ed­ly dumped in the British Vir­gin Islands. (This rela­tion­ship, if noth­ing else, yield­ed an icon­ic, can­did shot of Swift look­ing deject­ed, being motored back to shore on the back of a boat called the Fly­ing Ray.) One Direc­tion dis­cussed dis­band­ing in 2014, actu­al­ly dis­solved in 2015. They remain friend­ly, and Styles offi­cial­ly went solo in 2016.
It’s been two years since his epony­mous debut and lead sin­gle, Sign of the Times, shocked the world and Elton John with its swag­ger­ing, soft rock sound. ​“It came out of left field and I loved it,” John says.
After 89 are­na-packed shows across five con­ti­nents grossed him, the label, whomev­er, over $61mil­lion, Styles had all but dis­ap­peared. He has emerged only inter­mit­tent­ly for pub­lic-fac­ing events – a Guc­ci after­par­ty per­for­mance here, a Met Gala co-chair­ing there. He relo­cat­ed from Los Ange­les back to Lon­don, sell­ing his Hol­ly­wood Hills house for $6 mil­lion and ship­ping his Jaguar E-type across the Atlantic so he could take joyrides on the M25.
“I’m not over LA,” he insists when I ask about the move. ​“My rela­tion­ship with LA changed a lot. What I want­ed from LA changed.”
A great escape, he would agree, is some­times nec­es­sary. He was in Tokyo for most of Jan­u­ary, hav­ing near­ly fin­ished his album. ​“I need­ed time to get out of that album frame-of-mind of: ​‘Is it fin­ished? Where am I at? What’s hap­pen­ing?’ I real­ly need­ed that time away from every­one. I was kind of just in Tokyo by myself.” His sab­bat­i­cal most­ly involved read­ing Haru­ki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chron­i­cle, singing Nir­vana at karaoke, writ­ing alone in his hotel room, lis­ten­ing to music and eaves­drop­ping on strangers in alien con­ver­sa­tion. ​“It was just a pos­i­tive time for my head and I think that impact­ed the album in a big way.”
Dur­ing this break he watched a lot of films, read a lot of books. Some­times he texts these rec­om­men­da­tions to his pal Michele at Guc­ci. He told Michele to watch the Ali Mac­graw film, Love Sto­ry. ​“We text what friends text about. He is the same [as me] in terms of he lives in his own world and he does his own thing. I love dress­ing up and he loves dress­ing up.”
Because he loves dress­ing up, Michele chose Styles to be the face of three Guc­ci Tai­lor­ing cam­paigns and of its new gen­der­less fra­grance, Mémoire d’une Odeur.
“The moment I met him, I imme­di­ate­ly under­stood there was some­thing strong around him,” Michele tells me. ​“I realised he was much more than a young singer. He was a young man, dressed in a thought­ful way, with uncombed hair and a beau­ti­ful voice. I thought he gath­ered with­in him­self the fem­i­nine and the masculine.”
Fash­ion, for Styles, is a play­ground. Some­thing he doesn’t take too seri­ous­ly. A cou­ple of years ago Har­ry Lam­bert, his styl­ist since 2015, acquired for him a pair of pink metal­lic Saint Lau­rent boots that he has nev­er been pho­tographed wear­ing. They are exceed­ing­ly rare – few pairs exist. Styles wears them ​“to get milk”. They are, in his words, ​“super-fun”. He’s not sure, but he has, ball­park, 50 pairs of shoes, as well as full clos­ets in at least three post­codes. He set­tles on an out­fit fair­ly quick­ly, maybe changes his T-shirt once before head­ing out, but most­ly knows what he likes.
What he may not ful­ly com­pre­hend is that sim­ply by being pho­tographed in a gar­ment he can spur the career of a design­er, as he has with Har­ris Reed, Palo­mo Spain, Charles Jef­frey, Alled-Martínez and a new favourite, Bode. Styles wore a SS16 Guc­ci flo­ral suit to the 2015 Amer­i­can Music Awards. When he was asked who made his suit on the red car­pet, Guc­ci began trend­ing world­wide on Twitter.
“It was one of the first times a male wore Alessandro’s run­way designs and, at the time, men were not tak­ing too many red car­pet risks,” says Lam­bert. ​“Who knows if it influ­enced oth­ers, but it was a spe­cial moment. Plus, it was fun see­ing the fans dress up in suits to come see Harry’s shows.”
Yet tra­di­tion­al gen­der codes of dress still have the minds of mid­dle Amer­i­ca in a choke­hold. Men can’t wear women’s clothes, say the online whingers, who have labelled him ​“trag­ic”, ​“a clown” and a Bowie wannabe. Styles doesn’t care. ​“What’s fem­i­nine and what’s mas­cu­line, what men are wear­ing and what women are wear­ing – it’s like there are no lines any more.”
Elton John agrees: ​“It worked for Marc Bolan, Bowie and Mick. Har­ry has the same qualities.”
Then there is the ques­tion of Styles’ sex­u­al­i­ty, some­thing he has admit­ted­ly ​“nev­er real­ly start­ed to label”, which will plague him until he does. Per­haps it’s part of his allure. He’s bran­dished a pride flag that read ​“Make Amer­i­ca Gay Again” on stage, and plant­ed a stake some­where left of cen­tre on sexuality’s rain­bow spectrum.
“In the posi­tion that he’s in, he can’t real­ly say a lot, but he chose a queer girl band to open for him and I think that speaks vol­umes,” Josette Maskin of the queer band MUNA told The Face ear­li­er this year.
“I get a lot of…” Styles trails off, wheels turn­ing on how he can dis­cuss sex­u­al­i­ty with­out real­ly answer­ing. ​“I’m not always super-out­spo­ken. But I think it’s very clear from choic­es that I make that I feel a cer­tain way about lots of things. I don’t know how to describe it. I guess I’m not…” He paus­es again, piv­ots. ​“I want every­one to feel wel­come at shows and online. They want to be loved and equal, you know? I’m nev­er unsup­port­ed, so it feels weird for me to over­think it for some­one else.”
Sex­u­al­i­ty aside, he must acknowl­edge that he has sex appeal. ​“The word ​‘sexy’ sounds so strange com­ing out of my mouth. So I would say that that’s prob­a­bly why I would not con­sid­er myself sexy.”
Har­ry Styles has emerged ful­ly-formed, an anachro­nis­tic rock star, vague in sen­si­bil­i­ty but des­tined to impress with a dis­arm­ing smile and a warm but firm handshake.
I recite to him a quote from Chrissie Hyn­de of The Pre­tenders about her time atop rock’s throne: ​“I nev­er got into this for the mon­ey or because I want­ed to join in the super­star sex around the swim­ming pools. I did it because the offer of a record con­tract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a wait­ress. Now, I’m not so sure.”
Styles – who worked in a bak­ery in a small north­ern town some time before play­ing to 40,000scream­ing fans in South Amer­i­can are­nas – must have wit­nessed some shit, been invit­ed to a few pool­side sex par­ties, in his time.
“I’ve seen a cou­ple of things,” he nods in agree­ment. ​“But I’m still young. I feel like there’s still stuff to see.”
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buddyrabrahams · 8 years ago
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10 biggest NBA trade deadline takeaways
[clears throat and does best ancient Roman accent]
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? IS THIS NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE?!?
After countless visits to the Woj bomb shelter and copious mashing of the F5 button, this year’s NBA trade deadline is now in the rearview mirror — but not before New Orleans became a Boogie Wonderland, Jeanie Buss executed Order 66, and Danny Ainge slept through all of his alarms yet again. As the salary cap dust finally begins to settle, let’s go for a deep dive into the 10 biggest takeaways from Trade SZN 2K17.
1. The Southwest Division has become a meat grinder
In their shocking acquisition of three-time All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins from the SacrHAHAHAHAmento Kings, the New Orleans Pelicans managed to melt our faces off and give the ultimate middle finger to small-ball all at once. Cousins will join forces with Anthony Davis to form what is easily the NBA’s most fearsome frontcourt duo since Tim Duncan and David Robinson, and he very well could lift the team to a Godzilla vs. King Kong-esque clash of styles against the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the playoffs.
But while the Cousins bombshell dominated all of the headlines, the Houston Rockets upgraded their own weapon system by trading for former Sixth Man of the Year Lou Williams, a top-tier bench scorer and yet another threes-and-free-throws enthusiast to toss into Daryl Morey’s cauldron. And with the omnipresent San Antonio Spurs again cruising to a 60-plus win season, the Memphis Grizzlies modernizing nicely, and the Dallas Mavericks somehow still kicking, we may officially have a new Division of Death in the Association.
2. The East is now as wide open as it’s been in years
A faint glimmer of hope shines intermittently in the distance to signal the possible end of LeBron James’ reign of terror over the Eastern Kingdom. That glimmer may actually be the Ibaka Flocka Flame that the Toronto Raptors lit this trade deadline, a get that should improve their spacing and help remedy their chronic problem of bleeding easy buckets at the rim in crunchtime. Their late addition of P.J. Tucker as a LeBron-stopper of sorts has the potential to be huge as well, especially he was had for the price of a negative asset in Jared Sullinger and a pair of inconsequential second-rounders.
But don’t sleep on the Washington Wizards either now that they no longer have a cardboard cutout of a second unit thanks to the acquisition of Bojan Bogndanovic from Brooklyn. Bogdanovic’s friskiness off the bounce and his 36.6 percent career mark from deep give the Wiz a legitimate sixth man instead having to trot out The Ghosts of Power Conference Studs Past in Trey Burke and Kelly Oubre Jr. Now as long their starting five continues to swipe lunch money, Washington is set up to a be yuge headache come playoff time.
And to think that we haven’t even gotten to the team that’s mathematically closest to the Cavaliers yet…
3. The Boston Celtics are still waiting for the right time to pounce
“This will be the year that Danny Ainge finally awakens from his trade deadline slumber,” we repeated to ourselves as we slowly rocked back and forth in the fetal position. But alas, Ainge has once again taken the advice of the Magic Conch Shell and done nothing.
Paul George? Sike. Andre Drummond? Ask again later. Jimmy Butler? LOL.
In fairness, there’s not as much urgency to deal for a superstar when the Celtics have already witnessed one emerge in-house this season in Mighty Mouse Isaiah Thomas. Ainge may also want to see a healthy Avery Bradley get more reps with this current core and wait to see where that much-ballyhooed Brooklyn pick will actually fall so as to make a more well-informed decision about the future of his team. But time is of the essence with the Cavaliers, who are just three games ahead of Boston entering the second half of the season, beginning to show signs of mortality, so it’s still tough to justify the Celtics sitting on their hands instead of throwing them.
And since we keep mentioning those pesky Clevelanders…
4. The Cavaliers are walking a dangerous tightrope
LeBron James just hit all of his prospective playmakers with a resounding “It’s not you, it’s me.” Granted, a pre-deadline move was a longshot with the capped-out, asset-deficient reality the Cavs were forced to work with, especially since they gave up what little they had left to acquire sharpshooter Kyle Korver. But it’s still a highway to the danger zone to maintain status quo when the roster only runs six or seven deep right now thanks to the respective injury absences of J.R. Smith and Kevin Love.
Fortunately though, deadline inaction is far from nuclear Armageddon for the Cavs. The buyout market is still a viable place to acquire cheap, albeit exiled, talent in order to retool for a playoff run. Ditto for the often-overlooked 10-day contract cycle, which they recently took advantage of with the signing of ex-No. 2 overall pick Derrick Williams. So while time is very much ticking on Cleveland, there’s still an ample amount of sand in their hourglass, and hopefully that means their title defense doesn’t fall flat (no pun intended).
5. Several more months of Carmelo Anthony rumors await us
#StayMe7o he did indeed, much to the chagrin of those of us who felt compelled to bang our heads repeatedly against our keyboards thanks to the constant bombardment of Carmelo chatter and the gross societal overuse of the phrase “no-trade clause.” Well, those therapy sessions now look like a pretty darn good investment with Anthony surviving the trade deadline and ensuring that many more months of Melo-brand Instagram shade, indecipherable Phil Jackson subtweets, and Spike Lee sideline struggle faces are looming on the horizon to assault the senses of the NBA fandom.
Where do the Knicks go from here? At 23-34, they’ve all but clinched another season of futility. Meanwhile, Derrick Rose will likely be gonzo after the year, but Joakim Noah will still be around to clog cap, and Kristaps Porzingis will continue to have his development stunted by the team’s Melo-centric offense. Then draft season arrives followed shortly after by the 2017-18 campaign, and we fire up the Anthony hot stove all over again. Are we having fun yet?!?
6. The Lakers are done playing games
Jeanie Buss means business if you didn’t gather from the Red Wedding she stunningly pulled on her brother Jim and Mitch Kupchak just 48 hours before the deadline. The same goes for Magic Johnson, who, upon ascending to his new perch as Lakers president of basketball operations, traded away Lou Williams, got the team involved on the Paul George front, and took calls on Nick Young, all faster than you could say “Abdul-Jabbar.”
Now none of those moves were game-changers in and of themselves, but they affirmed one message to Laker Nation: our long national nightmare is over. Johnson is already working to rebuild the franchise’s reputation in the eyes of marquee talents and scheming with new GM Rob Pelinka and the rest of the front office to put the Lakers in a position to realistically and financially be able to acquire that talent. So rival executives best be vigilant of no-look passes zipping by their ears, because it’s Showtime in Los Angeles again.
7. Doc Rivers is perfectly content to run it back again
Another team somewhat surprising in their silence this year was the Los Angeles Clippers, who took a pie to the face last deadline by swinging an eleventh-hour deal for Jeff Green, who played for the team for all of two months, in exchange for Lance Stephenson and a future first-rounder. Welp.
Perhaps the sting of that belly flop of a trade necessitated the exercise of more prudence this time around, but the Clips are in a good spot regardless. Merciful point god Chris Paul is on the verge of an early return from injury, and Blake Griffin has been Hellboy in basketball form since his own return.
While the temptation to gauge themselves against Golden State and panic into a Carmelo Anthony-type deal must have been enormous, there’s intrinsic value in the 2011 Dallas Mavericks model of keeping a nucleus intact for several seasons in the hope that they can eventually break through the glass ceiling. Though the Dubs have all but assured that the ceiling [commander-in-chief voice] just got ten feet higher, it sounds like that’s the conventional wisdom Doc Rivers is going for here.
8. The cavalry is coming behind Russell Westbrook
Those 10,000 “Save The Brodie” shirts I ordered off eBay were not purchased in vain.
Though the loss of Westbrook’s blood sworn dance partner, Cameron Payne, is absolutely devastating (not really), the reinforcements have arrived for our beloved triple-double addict. Doug McDermott will offer Billy Donovan a versatile offensive threat to close games with in those situations where the foul stench of Andre Roberson’s jumper is too much to bear. The addition of veteran forward Taj Gibson should also unlock a number of juicy tall-ball lineups next to Steven Adams in case rookie Domantas Sabonis isn’t ready for the bright lights of the postseason or if Enes Kanter isn’t the same upon returning from his upholstery-related injury.
All things considered, the cost is quite minimal for the Thunder. Joffrey Lauvergne proved to be little more than a 6-foot-11 whoopee cushion in the increased opportunity presented by Kanter’s absence, and Payne is a low-upside option at a position of abundance who simply hasn’t looked serviceable since undergoing foot surgery. With the Thunder only 3.5 games out of a top-four seed in the West, let Westbrook’s piercing battle cry shepherd the weak through the valley of darkness.
9. Is The Process still being trusted?
The trade of Nerlens Noel to Dallas was a bolt from the blue, especially since he had finally appeared to find his calling as a defensive dynamo sixth man for the Sixers. In selling off Noel, a Day One Process OG, is Jerry Colangelo beginning to trample all over the carefully-crafted sandcastle that his predecessor, the Honorable Sam Hinkie, built?
In conjunction with their earlier trade of Ersan Ilyasova to the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for the injured Tiago Splitter and two future second-rounders, Colangelo seems to be presiding over a radical shift in team-building strategy by the Philly front office. Gone are the days of building exclusively through the draft in favor of clearing out roster space and cap room, perhaps to work more closely with the free agency pool in future years.
With that in mind, dealing Noel, who is due for restricted free agency after the season, makes at least a remote inkling of sense, even if it’s still difficult to justify the late 180 of choosing to keep Jahlil Okafor over Noel. So while I can at least somewhat understand why Colangelo pulled the trigger, as a fanatical disciple of the Holy Gospel according to Hinkie, I can never forgive him.
10. Paul George survives the deadline
As it turns out, Larry Bird was just teasing us all along. Though the PG-13 fever dreams abounded from Boston to Los Angeles, George remains with the Pacers through the deadline. It’s an interesting way for Indy to maintain the outward appearance of long-term commitment to the four-time All-Star while also gathering intel as to what his trade value might be over the summer and come next season.
In the end, it stands to reason that the time wasn’t ripe for the picking to move George. The Pacers are still a playoff team and George is under contract through 2018. But as Carmelos and Butlers before us can attest, this by no means symbolizes the death of the rumor mill, for George or other potentially-available stars. So as winter gives way to spring gives way to the playoffs gives way to the summer, there shall be no rest for the weary. Long live the National Basketball Association.
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A hand­shake can quell polit­i­cal unrest and sti­fle impend­ing war. It can, with a bit of spit, val­i­date a gentleman’s agree­ment, end a years-long roman­tic rela­tion­ship or send a young heart rac­ing. But it all depends on the two par­ties involved.
Daisy, 21, felt a seis­mic jolt when Har­ry Styles, 25, wear­ing a striped jumper and rings on three of his five fin­gers, clutched her hand two days after this year’s Met Gala in New York, when she served him gela­to at the shop where she worked.
“He decid­ed on a small mint choco­late gela­to and I made his and the one for his friend and I said, ​‘Can I just say I absolute­ly loved your Met Gala look’ and he said ​‘Thank you very much! What’s your name?’ And I said, ​‘Daisy’ AND HE FUCK­ING EXTEND­ED HISHAND AND REACHED TO SHAKE MY HAND AND I ACTU­AL­LY FUCK­INGSHOOK HIS HAND WHAT THE FUCK,” she wrote on Insta­gram after The Shak­en­ing. ​“Like I didn’t even say any­thing to gas him up besides ​‘I loved your met gala look’ and his fine ass went and shook my hand! WHAT A BEAU­TI­FUL FUCK­ING HUMAN BEINGTHAT HE IS GOD BLESS HIM AND I HOPE HW [sic] LIVES FOREVER.”
For Har­ry Styles, a hand­shake can be a roman­tic ges­ture, con­jur­ing a potent rev­er­ence in its recip­i­ent, like the time he met Gucci’s cre­ative direc­tor Alessan­dro Michele. ​“He was as attrac­tive as James Dean and as per­sua­sive as Gre­ta Gar­bo. He was like a Luchi­no Vis­con­ti char­ac­ter, like an Apol­lo: at the same time sexy as a woman, as a kid, as a man,” Michele told me, has­ten­ing to add: ​“Of course, Har­ry is not aware of this.”
No, Styles has no idea the pow­er he wields. In per­son, he’s tow­er­ing, like some­one who is not that much taller but whose rep­u­ta­tion adds four inch­es. Styles has a seda­tive bari­tone, spo­ken in a rum­my north­ern Eng­lish accent, that tum­bles out so slow­ly you for­get the name of your first born, a swag­ger that has been nursed and per­fect­ed in myth­i­cal places with names like Pais­ley Park, or Abbey Road, or Grace­land. Makes com­plete sense that he would be up for the role of Elvis Pres­ley in Baz Luhrmann’s upcom­ing biopic. He was primed, nay, born to shake his hips, all but one but­ton on his shirt cling­ing for dear life around his tor­so. Then the part was award­ed to anoth­er actor, Austin Butler.
“[Elvis] was such an icon for me grow­ing up,” Styles tells me. ​“There was some­thing almost sacred about him, almost like I didn’t want to touch him. Then I end­ed up get­ting into [his life] a bit and I wasn’t dis­ap­point­ed,” he adds of his ini­tial research and prepa­ra­tions to play The King. He seems relaxed about los­ing the part to But­ler. ​“I feel like if I’m not the right per­son for the thing, then it’s best for both of us that I don’t do it, you know?”
Styles released his self-titled debut solo album in May 2017. The boy­band grad was clear­ly unin­ter­est­ed in hol­low­ing out the charts with more for­mu­la­ic meme pop. Instead, to the sur­prise of many, he dug his heels into retro-fetishist West Coast ​’70s rock. Some of the One Direc­tion fan-hordes might have been con­fused, but no mat­ter: Har­ry Styles sold one mil­lion copies.
Despite its com­mer­cial and crit­i­cal suc­cess, he didn’t tour the album right away. He want­ed to act in the Christo­pher Nolan film Dunkirk. To his cred­it, his por­tray­al of a British sol­dier cow­er­ing in a moored boat on the French beach­es as the Nazis advanced wasn’t skew­ered in the press like the movie debuts of, say, Madon­na or Justin Tim­ber­lake. Per­haps he was fol­low­ing advice giv­en by Elton John, who had urged him to diver­si­fy. ​“He was bril­liant in Dunkirk, which took a lot of peo­ple by sur­prise,” John writes in an email. ​“I love how he takes chances and risks.” Act­ing, unlike music, is a release for Styles; it’s the one time he can be not himself.
“Why do I want to act? It’s so dif­fer­ent to music for me,” he says, sud­den­ly ani­mat­ed. ​“They’re almost oppo­site for me. Music, you try and put so much of your­self into it; act­ing, you’re try­ing to total­ly dis­ap­pear in who­ev­er you’re being.”
Fol­low­ing the news that he missed out on Pres­ley, his name was float­ed for the role of Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action remake of The Lit­tle Mer­maid. How­ev­er, fans will have to wait a bit longer to see Styles on the big screen as that idea, too, has sunk. He won’t be The King or the Prince. ​“It was dis­cussed,” he acknow­ledges before swift­ly chang­ing the sub­ject. ​“I want to put music out and focus on that for a while. But every­one involved in it was amaz­ing, so I think it’s going to be great. I’ll enjoy watch­ing it, I’m sure.”
The new album is wrapped and the sin­gle is decid­ed upon. ​“It’s not like his last album,” his friend, rock ​‘n’ roll leg­end Ste­vie Nicks, told me recent­ly over the phone. ​“It’s not like any­thing One Direc­tion ever did. It’s pure Har­ry, as Har­ry would say. He’s made a very dif­fer­ent record and it’s spectacular.”
Beyond that, Styles is keep­ing his cards close to his chest as to his next musi­cal move. How­ev­er, the air is thick with rumours that his main wing­man for HS2 is Kid Har­poon, aka Tom Hull, who co-wrote debut album track Sweet Crea­ture. No less an author­i­ty than Liam Gal­lagher told us that both big band escapees were in the same stu­dio – RAK in north-west Lon­don – at the same time mak­ing their sec­ond solo albums. Styles played him a cou­ple of tracks, ​“and I tell you what, they’re good,” Gal­lagher enthused. ​“A bit like that Bon Iver. Is that his name?”
Har­ry Styles met Nicks at a Fleet­wood Mac con­cert in Los Ange­les in April 2015. Some­thing about him felt authen­tic to the leg­endary front­woman: ground­ed, like she’d known him for­ev­er, blessed with a win­ning moon­shot grin. A month lat­er, they met back­stage at anoth­er Mac gig, this time at the O2 in Lon­don. Styles brought a car­rot cake for Nicks’ birth­day, her name piped in icing on top. By her own admis­sion, Nicks doesn’t even cel­e­brate birth­days, so this was a sur­prise. ​“He was per­son­al­ly respon­si­ble for me actu­al­ly hav­ing to cel­e­brate my birth­day, which was very sweet,” she says.
Styles’ rela­tion­ship with Nicks is hard to define. Induct­ing her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York as a solo artist ear­li­er this year, his speech hymned her as a ​“mag­i­cal gyp­sy god­moth­er who occu­pies the in-between”. She’s called him her ​“lovechild” with Mick Fleet­wood and the ​“son I nev­er had”. Both have moved past the pre­lim­i­nary chat acknowl­edg­ing each other’s unquan­tifi­able tal­ents and smooth­ly accel­er­at­ed towards play­ful cut-and-thrust ban­ter of a witch mom and her naughty child.
They per­form togeth­er – he sings The Chainand Stop Drag­gin’ My Heart Around; she sings the one alleged­ly writ­ten about Tay­lor Swift, Two Ghosts. One of those per­for­mances was at the Guc­ci Cruise after­par­ty in Rome in May, for ​“a lot of mon­ey”, Nicks tells me, in a ​“big kind of cas­tle place”. She has become his de fac­to men­tor – one phone call is all it takes to reach the Queen of Rock’n’Roll for advice on sequenc­ing (“She is real­ly good at track list­ing,” Styles admits) or just to hear each other’s voic­es… because, well, wouldn’t you?
Fol­low­ing anoth­er Fleet­wood Mac con­cert, at London’s Wem­b­ley Sta­di­um, in June, Nicks met Styles for a late (Indi­an) din­ner. He then invit­ed her back to his semi-detached Geor­gian man­sion in north Lon­don for a lis­ten­ing par­ty at mid­night. The album – HS2or what­ev­er it’ll be called – was fin­ished. Nicks, her assis­tant Karen, her make-up artist and her friends Jess and Mary crammed onto Styles’ liv­ing-room couch. They lis­tened to it once through in silence like a ​“bunch of edu­cat­ed monks or some­thing in this dark room”. Then once again, 15 or 16 tracks, this time each of his guests offer­ing live feed­back. It wrapped at 5am, just as the sun was bleed­ing through the curtains.
Even for a pop star of Styles’ stature, press­ing ​“play” on a deeply per­son­al work for your hero to digest, watch­ing her face react in real time to your new music, must be… what?
“It’s a dou­ble-edged thing,” he replies. ​“You’re always ner­vous when you are play­ing peo­ple music for the first time. You’ve heard it so much by this point, you for­get that peo­ple haven’t heard it before. It’s hard to not feel like you’ve done what you’ve set out to do. You are hap­py with some­thing and then some­one who you respect so much and look up to is, like: ​‘I real­ly like this.’ It feels like a large stamp [of approval]. It’s a big step towards feel­ing very com­fort­able with what­ev­er else hap­pens to it.”
Wad­ing through Styles’ back­ground info is exhaust­ing, since he was spanked by fame in the social media era where every god­dam blink of a kohl-rimmed eye has been doc­u­ment­ed from six angles. (And yes, he does some­times wear guyliner.)
Deep breath: born in Red­ditch, Worces­ter­shire, to par­ents Des and Anne, who divorced when he was sev­en. Grew up in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire with his sis­ter Gem­ma, mum and step­dad Robin Twist. Rode hors­es at a near­by sta­ble for free (“I was a bad rid­er, but I was a rid­er”). Stopped rid­ing, ​“got into dif­fer­ent stuff”. Formed a band, White Eski­mo, with school­mates. Aged 16, tried out for the 2010 run of The X Fac­torwith a stir­ring but aver­age ren­di­tion of Ste­vie Wonder’s Isn’t She Love­ly. Cut from the show and put into a boy band with four oth­ers, Louis Tom­lin­son, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik, and called One Direc­tion. Became inter­na­tion­al­ly famous, toured the globe. Zayn quit to go solo. Toured some more. Dat­ed but maybe didn’t date Car­o­line Flack, Rita Ora and Tay­lor Swift – whom he report­ed­ly dumped in the British Vir­gin Islands. (This rela­tion­ship, if noth­ing else, yield­ed an icon­ic, can­did shot of Swift look­ing deject­ed, being motored back to shore on the back of a boat called the Fly­ing Ray.) One Direc­tion dis­cussed dis­band­ing in 2014, actu­al­ly dis­solved in 2015. They remain friend­ly, and Styles offi­cial­ly went solo in 2016.
It’s been two years since his epony­mous debut and lead sin­gle, Sign of the Times, shocked the world and Elton John with its swag­ger­ing, soft rock sound. ​“It came out of left field and I loved it,” John says.
After 89 are­na-packed shows across five con­ti­nents grossed him, the label, whomev­er, over $61 mil­lion, Styles had all but dis­ap­peared. He has emerged only inter­mit­tent­ly for pub­lic-fac­ing events – a Guc­ci after­par­ty per­for­mance here, a Met Gala co-chair­ing there. He relo­cat­ed from Los Ange­les back to Lon­don, sell­ing his Hol­ly­wood Hills house for $6mil­lion and ship­ping his Jaguar E-type across the Atlantic so he could take joyrides on the M25.
“I’m not over LA,” he insists when I ask about the move. ​“My rela­tion­ship with LAchanged a lot. What I want­ed from LA changed.”
A great escape, he would agree, is some­times nec­es­sary. He was in Tokyo for most of Jan­u­ary, hav­ing near­ly fin­ished his album. ​“I need­ed time to get out of that album frame-of-mind of: ​‘Is it fin­ished? Where am I at? What’s hap­pen­ing?’ I real­ly need­ed that time away from every­one. I was kind of just in Tokyo by myself.” His sab­bat­i­cal most­ly involved read­ing Haru­ki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chron­i­cle, singing Nir­vana at karaoke, writ­ing alone in his hotel room, lis­ten­ing to music and eaves­drop­ping on strangers in alien con­ver­sa­tion. ​“It was just a pos­i­tive time for my head and I think that impact­ed the album in a big way.”
Dur­ing this break he watched a lot of films, read a lot of books. Some­times he texts these rec­om­men­da­tions to his pal Michele at Guc­ci. He told Michele to watch the Ali Mac­graw film, Love Sto­ry. ​“We text what friends text about. He is the same [as me] in terms of he lives in his own world and he does his own thing. I love dress­ing up and he loves dress­ing up.”
Because he loves dress­ing up, Michele chose Styles to be the face of three Guc­ci Tai­lor­ing cam­paigns and of its new gen­der­less fra­grance, Mémoire d’une Odeur.
“The moment I met him, I imme­di­ate­ly under­stood there was some­thing strong around him,” Michele tells me. ​“I realised he was much more than a young singer. He was a young man, dressed in a thought­ful way, with uncombed hair and a beau­ti­ful voice. I thought he gath­ered with­in him­self the fem­i­nine and the masculine.”
Fash­ion, for Styles, is a play­ground. Some­thing he doesn’t take too seri­ous­ly. A cou­ple of years ago Har­ry Lam­bert, his styl­ist since 2015, acquired for him a pair of pink metal­lic Saint Lau­rent boots that he has nev­er been pho­tographed wear­ing. They are exceed­ing­ly rare – few pairs exist. Styles wears them ​“to get milk”. They are, in his words, ​“super-fun”. He’s not sure, but he has, ball­park, 50 pairs of shoes, as well as full clos­ets in at least three post­codes. He set­tles on an out­fit fair­ly quick­ly, maybe changes his T-shirt once before head­ing out, but most­ly knows what he likes.
What he may not ful­ly com­pre­hend is that sim­ply by being pho­tographed in a gar­ment he can spur the career of a design­er, as he has with Har­ris Reed, Palo­mo Spain, Charles Jef­frey, Alled-Martínez and a new favourite, Bode. Styles wore a SS16 Guc­ci flo­ral suit to the 2015 Amer­i­can Music Awards. When he was asked who made his suit on the red car­pet, Guc­ci began trend­ing world­wide on Twitter.
“It was one of the first times a male wore Alessandro’s run­way designs and, at the time, men were not tak­ing too many red car­pet risks,” says Lam­bert. ​“Who knows if it influ­enced oth­ers, but it was a spe­cial moment. Plus, it was fun see­ing the fans dress up in suits to come see Harry’s shows.”
Yet tra­di­tion­al gen­der codes of dress still have the minds of mid­dle Amer­i­ca in a choke­hold. Men can’t wear women’s clothes, say the online whingers, who have labelled him ​“trag­ic”, ​“a clown” and a Bowie wannabe. Styles doesn’t care. ​“What’s fem­i­nine and what’s mas­cu­line, what men are wear­ing and what women are wear­ing – it’s like there are no lines any more.”
Elton John agrees: ​“It worked for Marc Bolan, Bowie and Mick. Har­ry has the same qualities.”
Then there is the ques­tion of Styles’ sex­u­al­i­ty, some­thing he has admit­ted­ly ​“nev­er real­ly start­ed to label”, which will plague him until he does. Per­haps it’s part of his allure. He’s bran­dished a pride flag that read ​“Make Amer­i­ca Gay Again” on stage, and plant­ed a stake some­where left of cen­tre on sexuality’s rain­bow spectrum.
“In the posi­tion that he’s in, he can’t real­ly say a lot, but he chose a queer girl band to open for him and I think that speaks vol­umes,” Josette Maskin of the queer band MUNA told The Face ear­li­er this year.
“I get a lot of…” Styles trails off, wheels turn­ing on how he can dis­cuss sex­u­al­i­ty with­out real­ly answer­ing. ​“I’m not always super-out­spo­ken. But I think it’s very clear from choic­es that I make that I feel a cer­tain way about lots of things. I don’t know how to describe it. I guess I’m not…” He paus­es again, piv­ots. ​“I want every­one to feel wel­come at shows and online. They want to be loved and equal, you know? I’m nev­er unsup­port­ed, so it feels weird for me to over­think it for some­one else.”
Sex­u­al­i­ty aside, he must acknowl­edge that he has sex appeal. ​“The word ​‘sexy’ sounds so strange com­ing out of my mouth. So I would say that that’s prob­a­bly why I would not con­sid­er myself sexy.”
Har­ry Styles has emerged ful­ly-formed, an anachro­nis­tic rock star, vague in sen­si­bil­i­ty but des­tined to impress with a dis­arm­ing smile and a warm but firm handshake.
I recite to him a quote from Chrissie Hyn­de of The Pre­tenders about her time atop rock’s throne: ​“I nev­er got into this for the mon­ey or because I want­ed to join in the super­star sex around the swim­ming pools. I did it because the offer of a record con­tract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a wait­ress. Now, I’m not so sure.”
Styles – who worked in a bak­ery in a small north­ern town some time before play­ing to 40,000 scream­ing fans in South Amer­i­can are­nas – must have wit­nessed some shit, been invit­ed to a few pool­side sex par­ties, in his time.
“I’ve seen a cou­ple of things,” he nods in agree­ment. ​“But I’m still young. I feel like there’s still stuff to see.”
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