Harry Styles soundtracks a relationship gone awry in the music video for his latest single, “Coming Up Roses.” The singer doesn’t try to deliver any lectures on love — the song deals with the impermanence of it — but he does come ready to lead some hopeless and hopeful romantics in a waltz. Step forward with your left, sideways with your right, bring them together, reverse and repeat. The ballad marks the fourth single release from Kiss All the Time.
Disco, Occasionally, the fourth studio album from Styles, shared in March. I’d started going out dancing a lot more. I really didn’t want it to be like, ‘Oh, I’m listening to this music — this is where I’m at,’ but then I go in the studio and say, ‘Well, I have to make this sort of music instead.'” “Coming Up Roses” started as an earnest, though short-lived, attempt at writing a Christmas song, Styles told Zane Lowe earlier this year.
For me, it is a love song about how special something can be, and not everything has to last forever in order for it to be special.” Trending Stories My Chemical Romance Face Legal Action From Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Over Stage Costumes Ethan Klein Confirms He'll ‘Remove Ownership’ From ‘H3 Podcast’ After Wife Accuses Him of Cheating Elvis Presley Rightsholders Sue Anthropic for Training on 274 Songs Without Permission Elon Musk’s Grok Finally Delivers First Installment of ‘Historically Accurate’ ‘The Odyssey’ It’s been perplexing, then, to see people getting engaged to “Coming Up Roses” during Styles’ 30-night run of shows at Madison Square Garden. One of the couples in the video got engaged at the Oct. 7 show while Styles played “Coming Up Roses” on piano. The only thing is he was facing the opposite side of the stage from where their seats were, so when the arena erupted in cheers, he was left craning his neck to see what all the commotion was about without interrupting the song — did something happen, or did everyone suddenly get really excited about the idea of hangover chasing?
The Together, Together residency will conclude this week with one last Wednesday show and two back-to-back Halloween concerts on Friday and Saturday. Best of luck to the happy couples.
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