{"id":5353,"date":"2019-10-16T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2019-10-15T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:44:14","slug":"lights-up-distances-harry-styles-even-further-from-1d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/2019\/10\/16\/lights-up-distances-harry-styles-even-further-from-1d\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Lights Up’ Distances Harry Styles Even Further From 1D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world was\nintroduced to Harry Styles when he performed as a young teenager on the UK X\nFactor <\/em>and was plopped into the sensational One Direction. Of course, no\none knew how popular the group would be. Since the band\u2019s split in 2015, each\nmember has taken their own path to discover themselves as artists\u2014Louis\nTomlinson leaning towards electropop, Niall Horan staying true to his pop\nroots, and Liam Payne and Zayn Malik veering towards pop R&B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been\nanywhere near social media, I\u2019m sure that you have seen that Harry Styles recently\nreleased the single \u201cLights Up.\u201d While Styles\u2019 first album radiated sadness\nfrom tracks such as \u201cMeet Me in the Hallway\u201d and \u201cFrom the Dining Table,\u201d\n\u201cLights Up\u201d has a complete tonal shift from being apologetic to liberated. Lyric\nadjacents are already appearing between the single and his last album: \u201cEven my\nphone misses your call by the way,\u201d in \u201cFrom the Dining Table\u201d compared to\n\u201cWhat do you mean?\/I\u2019m sorry by the way,\u201d in \u201cLights Up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the\nrelease of \u201cSign of the Times\u201d in 2017, it was evident that Harry Styles was\ndipping his toes into a mix of soft rock and pop. Two years later, the release\nof \u201cLights Up\u201d follows the pop structure, but the song seems truer to Styles in\nboth lyrics and sound in comparison to One Direction\u2019s radio tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had been\nspeculated since early One Direction days that Styles may have identified as\nmore than just straight. He has always been an open proponent of the LGBTQ+\ncommunity, waving pride flags on stage with his bandmates, but Harry Styles has\nstated before that he never felt the need to address his own sexuality. In\nrelation to \u201cLights Up,\u201d the music video is filled with orgy-esque eroticism,\nwith the naked bodies of not only Styles, but various people of all genders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not to\nsay that this video was a coming out by any means; but the video being released\non October 11th<\/sup>– National Coming Out Day- does not seem to be a\ncoincidence. However, even if the video isn\u2019t in reference to Styles\u2019\nsexuality, it breaks the masculine gender norm related to the stigma of\nproximity to male bodies. Styles is no stranger to exploring his feminine side,\nspecifically with his \u201cflamboyant\u201d clothing choices consisting of Gucci floral\npatterns and billowy blouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After being\nstuck in a teenage-heartthrob boy band during his transitional years from teen\nto adult, it\u2019s very possible that he never had the chance the embark on his own\npersonal exploration. Thematically, it seems like \u201cLights Up\u201d is an\nintroduction to an album where Harry Styles is beginning to explore who he is as\nboth an artist and individual. He asks himself in the mirror, \u201cDo you know who\nyou are?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am curious to\nsee what comes from HS2, and if this is, in fact, his inspection of the self\nwhile looking in the mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world was introduced to Harry Styles when he performed as a young teenager on the UK X Factor and was plopped into the sensational One Direction. Of course, no one knew how popular the group would be. Since the band\u2019s split in 2015, each member has taken their own path to discover themselves as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":5363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,530,32],"tags":[788,785,789,787,576,104,129,790,792,786,791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}