 Genius Meanings
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Harry Styles – Daylight
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“Daylight” is the fifth track off Harry Styles' third studio album, Harry’s House. Styles unveiled the song a day before its release at the Citi Concert Series for the TODAY show.
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Harry Styles – Matilda
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“Matilda” is the seventh track off Harry’s House, the third studio album by Harry Styles.
In the song, Harry somberly sings to somebody whose family did not treat her well. He
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Harry Styles – From the Dining Table
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“From the Dining Table” is the 10th track of Harry Styles' debut self-titled solo album. Its somber tone and longing lyrics depict the pain of having your heart broken, then seeing
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Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
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In “Watermelon Sugar”, Harry Styles recalls a summer past, singing of scrumptious berries and a former love. The song was released without warning to fans, less than an hour before
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Harry Styles – Falling
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In an interview with Zane Lowe, Harry describes the feeling “Falling” represents:
I had started to feel myself becoming someone I didn’t want to be, and that was really hard.
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Harry Styles – As It Was
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The lead single from his third album Harry’s House, “As It Was” sees Styles singing in a somewhat sorrowful voice about his bittersweet feelings of loneliness and the past, masking
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Harry Styles – Fine Line
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Harry Styles closes his sophomore LP with its namesake, “Fine Line.” In the track, Harry touched on the need for balance between the highs and lows of love (and life in general
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Harry Styles – Girl Crush
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Harry performed this cover at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee in September of 2017, and he also performed this song at The BBC in the beginning of November 2017.
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Harry Styles – Keep Driving
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“Keep Driving” is a song about ignoring everything else in the world and when everything is going downhill, you and your loved one just “keep driving”.
In a metaphorical sense
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Harry Styles – She
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The ambiguous, six minute long “She” can be interpreted in an array of meanings. While the song appears to touch on the protagonist spending his days picturing himself with someone
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Harry Styles – Kiwi
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“Kiwi” is about Harry’s relationship with an unidentified person. The song also addresses false rumors and how his relationship with fame drives him crazy even though he kind of
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Harry Styles – Sunflower, Vol. 6
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[Intro] / Sunflower / Sunflower, my eyes want you more than a melody / Let me inside, wish I could get to know you / Sunflowers sometimes keep it sweet in your memory / I was just
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Harry Styles – Satellite
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Harry’s House’s eleventh track begins as a light and airy track, in which Harry Styles sings about a lack of communication and the desire to be there for someone who keeps him at a
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Harry Styles – Cinema
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“Cinema” sees Styles singing about the early, uncertain phase of a relationship. He worries he isn’t cool enough for the person he is with and is nervous that he might come on too
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Harry Styles – Lights Up
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“Lights Up” is Harry Styles' first single of 2019, featuring harmonious vocals and melancholy lyrics. The song marks Harry’s first release since his eponymous May 2017 album, Harry
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Harry Styles – Grapejuice
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[Intro] / One, two, three / One, two— / [Verse 1] / Yesterday, it finally came, a sunny afternoon / I was on my way to buy some flowers for you / Thought that we could hide away in
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Harry Styles – Little Freak
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In the sweet and melodic ballad, “Little Freak,” Harry Styles reflects on a previous relationship that slipped through his fingers.
Throughout the song, the British singer is
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Harry Styles – Late Night Talking
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Having made its debut the same time Harry Styles first took the Coachella stage, “Late Night Talking” was officially released alongside the artist’s third album, Harry’s House.
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Harry Styles – Two Ghosts
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“Two Ghosts” is the second single released by Harry Styles as a solo artist, but was originally written to be included on One Direction’s 2015 album Made in the A.M.; however, he
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Harry Styles – Golden
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The opening track to Fine Line reveals the highs and ultimate fears one experiences during the Honeymoon Phase of a new and bright relationship. “Golden” also helps set the tone
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Harry Styles – Love Of My Life
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‘'Love Of My Life’‘ is the closing track to Harry Styles’ third studio album, Harry’s House. The British singer-songwriter used the ending to the song in the trailer for his album
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Taylor Swift – Style
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“Style” details a tumultuous relationship between two people who keep coming back to each other. Swift seems to have taken inspiration from her romance with Harry Styles, even
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Harry Styles – Boyfriends
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On “Boyfriends,” Harry Styles speaks about the way many boyfriends tend to mistreat their partners by mediating on a troubled relationship between two people. He told Zane Lowe of
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Harry Styles – Only Angel
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“Only Angel” is the sixth track on Harry Styles' self-titled solo debut album.
After a soft, ethereal opening (including an excerpt from ‘'Barfly’‘), “Only Angel” swells and
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Harry Styles – Canyon Moon
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“Canyon Moon” is a bittersweet track in which Harry Styles recalls a happy moment from the past and yearns to return home. Harry has dubbed the track “Crosby, Stills, and Nash on
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Harry Styles – Music for a Sushi Restaurant
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“Music for a Sushi Restaurant” is the opening song to Harry Styles' third studio album, Harry’s House. Mingling smooth jazz and funky ‘70s pop, Styles sings about making sushi
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Harry Styles – Cherry
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“Cherry” is written about Harry Styles' ex-girlfriend Camille Rowe, following their break-up in July 2018, during a time when Harry was feeling “not great.” Her voice is even
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Harry Styles – To Be So Lonely
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After the emotional ballads of “Cherry” and “Falling”, “To Be So Lonely” resembles a drunk phone call that may come at the denial stage of grief, after anger (“Cherry”) and
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Harry Styles – Him (Unreleased)
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[Verse 1] / So you were right / There’s always two / The one who stays, and the one who’s leaving you / Hear me out, my apologies / ‘Cause I’m not here for sympathy / [Chorus] / ‘
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Harry Styles – Adore You
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“Adore You” is the third single on Harry Styles' sophomore record, Fine Line. The track features Harry speaking about his love and passion for a significant other, and the extent
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Harry Styles – Ever Since New York
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“Ever Since New York” is the second song to have been performed off of Harry Styles' self-titled debut solo album. It is a slow folk-style song, which adds to the already eclectic
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Harry Styles – Meet Me in the Hallway
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In “Meet Me In the Hallway,“ Styles channels a dreamy-psychedelic tune with pleading lyrics that refer to addiction and recovery at the same time.
The live version of the song has
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Harry Styles – Sign of the Times
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“Sign of the Times” is a slow paced pop-rock track about avoiding emotion and reality during times of grief and hardship. The song draws inspiration from ‘70s rock songs from
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