Harry Styles Wants You To Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally
The pop star is dropping his fourth solo album in March, here's everything we know about the Disco album
Whoever said album drops are last season and listening parties are the rage, needs to take notes from 31-year-old English singer-songwriter and actor Harry Styles. The pop star is back with album cover reveal of his upcoming solo album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.
The musician who has been MIA for the past four years since he dropped his third album Harry's House in May 2022 and has been occasionally spotted around the globe running marathon in Berlin, at pope Leo XIV's inauguration at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, casually walking the streets of London in short shorts, and at a funky underground gay bar in Soho that's tucked behind a fake sex shop over the course of four years until recently. Now, Styles is gearing to promote his upcoming album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally (KATTDO) or what his fans are calling HS4 that's dropping on March 6 this year and was revealing on Thursday.
The 12-track project is also produced by executive producer Kid Harpoon, who has previously produced all of As It Was and Watermelon Sugar singer's solo albums including the 2022's Harry's House which sold more than four million copies worldwide and won best album at both the Grammys and the Brit Awards.
While the album cover drop and release date came unexpectedly, Styles' comeback is hardly a surprise. A few weeks before the announcement, diehard fans of the ex-One Direction member noticed that banners of We Belong Together, now revealed as the first song to be released from the album were advertised across New York and Madrid as well as a cryptic message on the website that read 'See You Soon'.
As part of the reveal party, fans also noticed that the singer-songwriter and actor who starred in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk in 2017 and Olivia Wilde's 2022 film Don't Worry Darling had burst out of hibernation on social media and shared a video on his YouTube channel 'Forever. Forever' , an eight-minute long film features footage from the last night of Styles’ 2023 tour Love On Tour, including a moving performance of an instrumental piano ballad that Styles had written for the Italian audience, and concludes with a message written in all caps: “We Belong Together."—an easter egg that hinted at what was to come and it for sure has picked up steam.
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Having said that, Harry Styles latest album hints at the possibility of a revival of disco that saw its death in 1970s and has become a sweet of spot for many including bands like Parcels, Lizzo, and Jessie Ware and also a great sample source material for mainstream artists like Dua Lipa whose sophomore album Future Nostalgia was a treatise on where pop went after disco's death at the end of the 1970s. At the same time according to a Forbes review published in 2020s the album was "a declaration of Lipa’s intent to bring it back to life with her forward-thinking sensibilities."
So while we all anticipate the sound of Kiss All The Time. Disco Occasionally to decipher whether or not Styles' album would be a revival or allusion to the great disco era that put Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor on the disco dancefloor, we can say all agree that the King is back!
Welcome. Back. King.