Here are some photos of Harry Styles out and about in the past week. The plaid-suit photos are from London, where Styles was going into the BBC Radio studio. The photos of Harry in the pink suit are from his appearance on the Today Show last week. Harry has been promoting his new self-titled album and it seems to be going well. What comes across, for the most part, is that he’s a pretty well-adjusted guy, all things considered. He’s close to his family, he doesn’t abuse alcohol or drugs, he’s not spending crazy money on stupid things. I’ve been reading his interviews and I think he probably misses the One Direction atmosphere, where he could more easily deflect personal questions and not have to answer questions if he didn’t want to. Harry chatted with a gossip guy in the UK, Dan Wootton, and Wootton asked Harry directly about his sexuality and more. Just know: a lot of 1Ders honestly believe that the boys of 1D were involved with each other sexually, romantically, whatever. Some highlights from the interview:
On his sexuality & people like Miley coming out as pansexual: “Being in a creative field, it’s important to be progressive. People doing stuff like that is great. It’s weird for me—everyone should just be who they want to be,” the “Sign of the Times” singer replied. “It’s tough to justify somebody having to answer to someone else about stuff like that.” The 23-year-old singer added that he “never felt the need” to define his own sexual orientation. In fact, he said, “I don’t feel like it’s something I’ve ever felt like I have to explain about myself.”
He doesn’t want to share too much about his personal life: “I try not to overthink too much. I don’t really talk about it, I guess. The rollercoaster affects different people in different ways. One of the ways that helps me dealing with that is compartmentalizing between working. All that stuff, for me, is just a different thing.”
Whether he’s friends with his exes: “Everyone should be friends, right?”
How he avoided partying too hard throughout his career: “On the first couple of tours it was so exciting as we’d have a drink and go to parties. But for me, the albums got higher so they become harder to sing, so I knew if I didn’t come off stage and go to bed I wouldn’t be able to sing the next night… It’s just not for me. I’d rather wake up with a clear head. I’m not straight edge or anything. I’ll celebrate and hang out with friends when it’s the right time. But I like knowing I’m not going to be stressing about having to do something the next day. I usually go long stretches without having anything, have a couple of drinks and wake up feeling like s–t, so I have another long stretch of not drinking.”
It sounds like I have something in common with Harry – I stopped drinking because I was tired of feeling like sh-t the next day, and tired of feeling foggy the morning after and not being able to function at my best. This, to me, speaks to Harry’s professionalism. But I do think he’s probably more straight-edge than he wants to admit. He’s walking the fine line between wanting to be seen as a rock star versus the reality of being a solo artist, with people depending on you alone. As for the talk about his sexuality… he’s part of the generation of kids/young-adults who don’t want to be defined by their sexuality nor do they want to define their sexuality. My guess is that he’s a straight guy who knows how to gay-bait, which is a thing. Nick Jonas does it too. They’re guys who know they have a gay fanbase so they they give their gay fans a little something extra.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
most straight people don’t, since life is still very much heteronormative.
the 1D’ stans obsession with them being in secret relationships was a very fandom thing, no different than what people do with fictional characters. it was weird because 1D are real people that exist in real life, but i’m sort of giving them a pass because most of them were very young.
My guess is that he’s a straight guy who knows how to gay-bait, which is a thing. SO THIS.
Zaen’s thing was overtly sexual lyrics. Harry’s is flirting with sexual ambiguity (is that the right term?).
Personally, I think this kid has been media trained to the point where he is just repeating talking points. But boy, is he pretty.
I agree Clare…I recall Kathy Griffin’s anecdote where he kept on annoying Tom Hanks by asking him “if he was that guy in Forrest Gump, that guy in Castaway, etc.” while high at an Eagles concert.
His media roll-out has been smooth.
I don’t know if it’s just pandering with him. The kid (says the not yet 27 year old) seems a lot more genuine than most of this generation of celebrities. There’s been a ton of rumors over the years, there’s been people reading in to everything possible. And it’s never phased him. He also doesn’t seem to be flaunting relationships all over the place, or feel the need to prove what a bro he is. So I don’t know.
Either way, I do like that he does try to keep his private life and public life separate, and that he has the sense to be responsible enough to not party all the time. There are plenty of people in the business much older than him who have yet to grasp it.
The opposite. I think he comes across as a product a bit like coincidentally his old fling Taylor swift.If you read his interviews he is very vague and never really commits to anything or has any strong opnions. Like swift he’s very careful not to alienate any parts of his core audience. So gives the impression of being sort of woke without ever saying anything remotely controversial.
Also he’s trying to keep his private life private? Say what? He dated a kardashian Jenner twice, a swift and a bunch of models that he took to places like the famous pumpkin patch were all celebrities go to get papped. He’s absolutely not above using his private life to further his career. Of all the guys in 1D he’s the one who knows how play the game best.
I really like his interviews, It doesn’t make me roll my eyes like some others do. Also I don’t think he’s baiting, just because he doesn’t label himself doesn’t mean he’s lying. Also he never acted like Nick Jonas. Anyway, if he doesn’t label himself why should we do it for him?
I love Harry’s single. Yesterday my daughter and I were in the car together when it came on and I said, “Do you ever wonder if that line ‘You look pretty good down here, but you ain’t really good’ is about Swifty?”
Think about her polished image and how she wants to appear to be versus what we all know about her — Mean girl slithering snake.
Just a thought …
Personally I think it’s about death lmao because of the “you can’t bribe the door” part and it has an end of the world feel to me. It’s a good song either way
I agree. I think it’s about death as well and about people who appear good “down here” but when it’s all said and done, are not really good at all.
Sorry Harry stans- sounds like he’s straight. That’s why he doesn’t feel the need to explain it. He denied being bisexual.
He’s mediocre at best.
He is so boring. And because its a manufactured boring its even more boring than the average bore. He just gives off a chat show vibe. He reminds me of those 80s and 90s British variety show hosts who were always so middle of the road. Working hard not to seem not be too conservative but not too naughty ….and then one day their little game is busted when a male hooker is found overdosed on coke and drowned in their swimming pool (as happened with that Barrymoore guy).
I no longer follow Harry but he used to hang with a much older hipster set filled with London celebrity models and DJs. And even then he conveyed boring cold oatmeal in his 1D interviews. Its totally a manufactured boring.
Duh he’s white. He has to hit every (white) demographics down to the most boring ones because that’s his core audience. And he’s as much a “rock star” as Kendall Jenner’s a “model”. Straight people don’t have to explain there sexuality but also have no problem addressing the rumors either. Until Harry performs at gay club or poses for Out etc then it makes sense to say he’s pandering to the gays. Right now it’s just a convenient excuse. And he should wash his dirty stringy hair once in a while. He looks washed-up when he’s the same age as Zayn.
Oh PLEASE don’t ever explain too much. If he’s into women, I’m bored. He’s too young for me to fantasize about but I’m ALL IN as long as he makes out in public with a pretty guy.
I understand the bland answer though. I mean those 1D fans with the obsession of the secret relationship need treatment. It doesn’t matter what he says. Most people don’t care, those who would care if he were gay are most likely not his target audience, and those who want him to be gay will never believe anything else.
I am surprisingly obsessed with his song from the dining table .
What’s with all his pink outfits? Is that gay-baiting too, or has he always had a pretty quirky dress sense? (Or, is it just to visually distinguish him from his 1D days?)
I like his dress sense since he has started promoting this album, but only if it’s his real dress sense and not some marketing campaign!
From what I remember he was always the quirky one when it came to fashion, it seems like he enjoyed experimenting. So its not unusual.
I’m a One Direction fan and know that this interviewer is the worst…he always wrote stories about Harry hating the rest of the guys and other unnecessary drama. The guys, in fact, are very close. When Louis’ mom passed away, they all dropped everything and went to his XFactor performance but stayed backstage to keep the focus on Louis. and you guys can think the “Larry shippers” are crazy kids but they’re mostly adult women, in the gay community, at least from what I’ve seen. if you look at it logically, it makes sense to me that they’re closeted. But I experienced the “rainbow bondage bear” as it happened, I’ve told you before to google it and I’ll say it again, that was madness. At one of their shows, they had the bears dressed as a bride and groom and had the spotlight on them with a signed picture saying “love Larry”
agree, Dan W is the worst.
I think Harry’s marketing has been really disappointing. A lot of fans hoped he would get a bit more freedom once he was away from Syco and Modest, and he could pick his own team. Instead, I think this album rollout has been baiting the Larry fandom and it’s also been pretty misogynistic. See the Late Late Show last night. And the “Carolina” song explanations. Oh except LLS has already pulled the video and Rolling Stone’s edited the fan’s age for the “Carolina” backstory.
It’s really, really not.
Harry might be not straight, but Louis is infamous for banging anything with a vagina and there’s zero evidence at all of some years long secret romance that requires Watergate x100000 level conspiracy theories involving fake babies. Pretty much anytime fans start claiming fake babies you know you’re in crazy town . And these Larries have engaged in some insane stalking and harassment, and I don’t believe for a second they’re gay. For one thing most of the Larry writing I’ve come across is very homophobic and based on pretty ridiculous stereotypes of gay men, for another they are sexually obsessed with these two men!
Besides none of us know them or have the slightest, tiniest idea what they’re like or what they do in private. Anyone who believe they truly “know” a celeb is delusional.
I like him. He seems like a well adjusted young kid under the circumstances. I am not sure I would be so if I was thown i to a spotlight at 16 and had to grow up in front of the world. As for his comments on sexuality, that comment either means he is straight and therefore never had to gace the harsh reality of having to define himself or he is one of those people refusing to make clear statement only because that is how he understands the support of minorities sexual or other. If you are called a lier you may want to deny it only because you think that lying is bad. In this case not saying is the equivalent of not judging. That, I noticed is a thing now among young people. Which I am ok with. And I think that the less these celebrities talk about their private life, the better.
On the other hand I find it alarming that people think that one has to be gay if one supports the LGBT community (and I am not talking about Harry in particular here but the broader conversation). It feeds into identity politics and the alienation when people decide who is one of them and who is an outsider not based on emathy but on shared identity only. Trump, Le Pen or Nigel Farage thrive on that division.
Honestly, in this context I think that his clear anti-Brexit statement is more newswothy: http://m.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/harry-styles-to-vote-for-antibrexit-candidate-saying-people-better-together-35713386.html