Harry Styles‘ album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally is finally here, giving fans 11 tracks’ worth of new lyrics to pore over while bopping along to his first plunge into the world of electronic dance music.
Featuring a dozen songs total — with lead single “Aperture” dropping in January and topping the Billboard Hot 100 — the pop star’s fourth studio album finds him in a contemplative state, searching for human connection and reflecting on the complexities of his existence. But while the sound of Styles’ new music is discernibly different from his past albums (2022’s Harry’s House, 2019’s Fine Line and 2017’s Harry Styles), Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally builds on the One Direction alum’s signature lyrical style, through which he’s become known for describing scenes and emotions that are both vivid and ambiguous, allowing listeners to interpret them in endless ways. That can make it more difficult, however, for people to know what Styles’ songs truly mean to him — but luckily, he opened up in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1 about his inspirations for nearly all of the songs on the new LP, shedding new light on his creative process.
From feeling transformed by the nightlife in Rome and Berlin — where he spent extended periods of time while creating Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally — to honing in on the “mission statement” of the project, Styles told Lowe in the March 4 interview that the through-line was allowing himself to be his most honest version of himself yet. “The record for me is about how do I still have my experience while I’m playing it?” he said. “It was like, what music do I have to make for me to be on stage feeling like I’m in the middle of the dance floor?”
Check out Styles’ explanations for many of the songs on Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally below.
