Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I met Harry Salz a decade ago

along with the rest of One Direction when I was reporting a Rolling Stone cover story that for

various reasons never actually ended up getting published but I've been a

fan of his ever since and can't say I'm all that surprised that he's become a solo superstar.

But my fandom is nothing compared to that of Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield,

who I think it's safe to say are among the world's leading experts on Harry

Styles.

And as we're about to discuss, Harry has a new album out called Harry's House.

Harry is doing something very interesting as a solo pop star, again as we'll touch on.

He's having pop hits very much on his own terms. His rock influences and vintage R&B influences are very much his own. He's also

become an incredible force live. So it's a very interesting career, a very unique album, and here's my discussion with

Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos. You too like Harry Stiles, you're, you know, you're willing to be

open to the idea that his music might be good I think it's

fair to say. We dabble. You dabble in the Harry Styles fandom. He has his

moments. Yeah. Yeah. We devil. So there is, needless to say, a new album, Harry's house, and it's kind of a very good response. I like this album. We're going to talk about every single track on this album.

Maybe the two of you can sort of set the scene and explain where he was last time with

fine line and what this suggests about his direction and the kind of

differences and where he went in general with this for you.

Fine Line was the album where he set out to prove that he could do everything. You know, his first album, he wanted to prove that he could do singer-songwriter stuff.

He really wanted to show his chops as a songwriter and to really kind of break from the sort of pop mold so the lead single was six minutes long.

Just stop you crying it's a sign of the times.

Welcome to the fire. He was very much making a statement about his own artistic independence.

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