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Harry Styles【Daylight】和訳 別れたくて仕方なかったHarryの本音 解説 Harry Styles' True Feelings
Harry Styles【Daylight】和訳 別れたくて仕方なかったHarryの本音 解説 Harry Styles' True Feelings
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コンサートで、はっちゃけてるHarry Styles。皆さんにお裾分け。可愛いですね〜。
Harry Stylesのシングル・リリースが頻繁に行われている。普通ここまでPop Artistが、短いスパンではリリースしない。
「人気者だからニーズに応えて」と言うのもある。でも彼のよう売れっ子でここまで間隔が狭いのを見ていると、ラッパーやブラック系アーティストの商法をとりいれているでは？敢えてその戦法を選んでるな、とLyraは思ってる。
それにご時世もある。前みたいにアルバムを一つの作品としては評価する人が少なくなり、一曲ずつを小分け売りした方が売れるからバラ売り事情から一気出しして後にシングルわけ、と言う時勢がPop…
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Harry with Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson in London - September 30
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Seemingly inescapable whenever you turned on the radio last summer, Harry Styles’ As It Was was one of the biggest hits of 2022, and remains on heavy rotation today. It topped Spotify’s end-of-year list of the most popular songs, and hit number one in the US and UK.
The song was co-written by Tyler Johnson alongside Kid Harpoon and Styles himself. Johnson and Harpoon both have production credits on the track - as they do on Watermelon Sugar, another Styles mega-hit - but as Johnson explained to Music Week [Paywall] last year, the creative process behind the two songs was very different.
“[Watermelon Sugar] took a while and As It Was was more speedy, right out of the gate,” he says. “Harry was sitting on the Moog One and I liked what he was playing, so I sat down and played as he started to write the melodies and the lyrics. Tom [Hull, aka Kid Harpoon] did a half-time beat around it, we were like, ‘No, it’s not right.’ So then Tom played the double time beat, which felt very good.
In terms of harmonic structure, As It Was has been compared to a-Ha’s Take On Me. As John Mayer demonstrated during a recent live performance, the two songs share a similar chord progression - ii-V-I-IV - but As It Was has a very different, highly distinctive topline.
“I said to Harry, ‘We need a lead line’ and he just came up right away with the ‘Dah, dah, dah...’ part,” reveals Tyler Johnson. “He didn’t hesitate. Then he started writing the second verse and referring to himself in the third person. So much of this song just came from Harry’s heart. And then Tom, as he does, with this magical sense of hooks that he has, came up with the idea of doing, ‘You know it’s not the same…’ after the chorus, which I was very impressed with. That turned out to be a very smart move.”
The song came together quickly, then: “Really, the record was about where it’s at now after three or four days,” Johnson recalls. “It didn’t go through a lot of [changes], there was never anything drastic. I had a guitarist friend, Doug Showalter, add electric guitars and some transition sounds. Then we got the tubular bells - another Harry idea - and I’ve got a video of him playing those. We had Mitch Rowland come in to do some live drums. We chopped those up for the ending to give it a more bombastic feeling.”
The best thing about As It Was is just how effortless it is, how it just flows over you and gives you a good energy.
Having a real drummer, it turns out, is important for Johnson, Harpoon and Styles. “For As It Was, we were thinking 2008-2012 indie rock, MGMT, Phoenix, Passion Pit. We want to be referential and for the music to sound familiar, but our process is that we don’t do as much drum programming as live drums. That’s what people in that era were doing to make things sound big, but not too programmed. Our engineer Jeremy Hatcher really helped shape that, those drum tones are unique in pop.”
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Kid Harpoon threw another influence on As It Was into the mix: “I’m sitting there on the drums and I was like, oh, this could have a Strokes kind of vibe,” he said. However, while he acknowledges the debt that As It Was owes to other artists and songs, he also firmly believes that it has its own identity.
"You get to the end and you hear it and you go, oh, it’s got the sort of A-ha references and the Strokes references and maybe there’s a bit of Talking Heads in there and then it becomes something bigger than the sum of its parts.”
Perhaps the relaxed vibe of As It Was stems from the fact that it was recorded in the living room in the home of A&R man Rob Stringer’s house, a place conducive to chilling out, you would have thought.
“The living room was actually a very perfect size for a control room, nice and tight but kinda long,” notes Tyler Johnson. “The back of it had a couch, an upright piano and windows that looked out over some fields, and in the front we had the desk. We rented a ton of gear, all the walls were lined with preamps and compressors. Even though we were going kind of bedroom-y, Tom and I just love lots of microphones and we do live drums, analogue synthesisers, multiple guitar amps… We love that whole element to recording.”
It was Styles, it turns out, who pushed for As It Was to be his album’s lead single. A wise move, it turns out, given its subsequent success.
“The best thing about As It Was is just how effortless it is, how it just flows over you and gives you a good energy,” thinks Tyler Johnson. “It has a gentle conversation with the listener while being upbeat. It’s easy to consume, but it still has depth and Harry brings so much character to it. Really, pop is just about people living life with music to garnish it.”
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tylersami: Harry’s House Out Now.
Thank you @Harry_Styles for having me along your journey. Love you forever
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“There’s something very fluid about the song as a representation of the three of us having made records together for almost six years. As It Was shows us – and the whole album represents this – in a really good zone where we’re just doing our thing. There’s a lot of trust between us.”
-Tyler Johnson on making As It Was with Harry and Tom Hull. (6 October 2022)
via Music Week
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hug of all time!!!!!!!!
#kid harpoon#tyler johnson#harry styles#album of the year babyyyy so proud of them#look at them go.. bestie squad<33
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Harry Styles • Harry’s House • Songs’ Credits
Sammy Witte - wrote Cherry & Fineline
Amy Allen - wrote Adore You
Tobias Jesso Jr - has worked with artists as Niall Horan & Adele
*Daydreaming contains a piece from The Brothers Johnson’s We Ain't Funkin' Now so the writers of that song are credited
#hha#Harry’s house#song credits#harry styles#niall horan#kid harpoon#tyler johnson#mitch rowland#sammy witte#amy allen#tobias jesso jr
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“Harry’s House” by Harry Styles — an album review
During the pandemic, a lot of things came to a halt, including concerts. A lot of people turned to music (streaming and physical copies such as vinyl, CD, and cassette) and other forms of entertainment for leisure at home. Meanwhile, a lot of musicians started working on new music. At the time, they’d be thinking, "What would a ‘pandemic album’ sound like?" It depends on the artist, of course. To celebrate one year since the release of Harry's House, here is my review (I became a fan one month after this album's release).
The pandemic definitely made people reflect on a lot of things, especially their own lives. According to Harry, "It is definitely the most personal record that I think I’ve made... I think it’s also the most free I’ve ever felt making music..." "[The album] is named after Hosono; he had an album in the 70’s called Hosono House, and I spent that chunk in Japan; I heard that record and I was like, ‘I love that. It’d be really fun to make a record called Harry’s House.’"
Synth pop and Harry experimenting with the texture of his vocals take center stage. The album is full of pop bops that are sure to be on loop. Most of the songs are about relationships. Amusing lyrics like "Green eyes, fried rice, I could cook an egg on you/Late night, game time, coffee on the stove, yeah/You’re sweet ice cream, but you could use a flake or two" match the (mostly) cheerful atmosphere of the album. The album is full of standard pop songwriting paired with simple yet delightful melodies. "In this world, it’s just us/You know it’s not the same as it was" are the most relatable lyrics of the album as they describe the effects of the pandemic.
The slow, introspective songs in the middle of the album, Little Freak and Matilda, also shine, as the melodies suit the delicate subjects of these songs. He is sincere as he recalls a previous relationship then a person who has gone through something tough. "You showed me a power that is strong enough to bring sun to the darkest days/It’s none of my business, but it’s just been on my mind" shows off Harry’s potential as a good songwriter. After the ballads come the smooth, jazzy songs Cinema and Daydreaming, which continue to depict the attraction previously mentioned in the songs of the first half of the album. The last four songs of the album are interesting as they switch between paces and topics.
The only skip on this album is the track Boyfriends which was originally supposed to be on his sophomore album Fine Line. This ballad sounds like a lullaby; however, its pacing and Harry's crooning on this track aren't captivating or memorable enough. Maybe this track would have sounded better if it were middle- or fast-paced, or if he had sung in a different way. It's quite strange that this track is second to last instead of following or in between Little Freak and Matilda.
Harry’s House is introspective yet riveting. The album is one of the best recent mainstream pop albums I’ve ever heard. Despite the heavy synth on this one, it isn’t tiring to listen to. The hype is legitimate. In my opinion, there’s only one skip on this album (try guessing which song it is — hint: it’s on the latter half). This album is really fun and full of earworms.
Verdict: Good, fun
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I'm going to start using "Tom, Tyler and Harry" instead of "Tom, Dick and Harry" in conversations.
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When do you think they wrote songs together?
Also, which 1D songs are haylor?
We have confirmation that they wrote together some time in 2012. Jackknife Lee, who worked on The Last Time and 1D’s Something Great (Harry’s the only 1Der with that writing credit), talked about it in the linked article.
“It was out of my field of expertise and interest, but I was intrigued and my girls were thrilled. Taylor was nice and very professional. She knew what she wanted and there was no fucking about. She was seeing Harry Styles at the time, so he came to Topanga on her recommendation. She wrote a few songs with him, and it was the same thing – quick. But this time it was more directed by the management and label. They were after something specific. I wanted more acoustic and gentle, almost Americana, and they wanted bombast. They got what they wanted, and that was the extent of my foray into teen-pop territory. It was fun.”
She helped him transition to songwriting, even introducing him to her collaborators. I would bet money that she made the intro to Nashville’s Tyler Johnson (who sang on tracks, and engineered Holy Ground and The Lucky One). Harry’s been working with him ever since; they just won AOTY together with Kid Harpoon for Harry’s House.
And they’re creatives and prolific songwriters who write in a decade-long dialogue with each other. I am sure they could not resist writing together!
As for 1D…wow. A lot! All the ones with Harry as a sole 1D writer, for sure, so:
Happily, Something Great, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, Stockholm Syndrome, Olivia, If I Could Fly, Walking in the Wind. Plus a bunch of the leaked demos - Half the World Away, Don’t Let Me Go, Already Home, Trouble, Lay Down, Hunger, Him, She Got Away (newish leak Ryan Tedder co-write), Something I’ve Been Waiting For, and Where We Are.
He has a bunch of cowrites, so they’re partially Haylor: Back for You, They Don’t Know About Us, Last First Kiss, Summer Love, Irresistible, Still the One, Right Now, Story of My Life, Night Changes, Fool’s Gold, Perfect, A.M.
And then there are uncredited lyrical contributions, or times people have said “this is like the life of *someone* in the band. These are inferred from interviews (like from Ed re. 18) or context cues: Heart Attack, Change my Mind, Magic, She’s Not Afraid, Loved You First, Nobody Compares, You & I, Strong, Half a Heart, 18, Hey Angel, End of the Day, Infinity, History.
Whew. It’s a lot, but he calls himself out in Falling: “I’m well aware I write too many songs about you.”
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Review -After many a postponement, for the first time since his debut world tour in 2017, Grammy award winning artist Harry Styles touched down at Mt Smart Stadium, bringing Harry Styles: Love on Tour to Tāmaki Makaurau.
Released in 2022 and recently awarded Album of the Year at the 2023 Grammys, Harry's House, built in London by way of Hollywood, Malibu, and Wilshire, and engineered by the likes of Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson, and Samuel Witte has seen almost every major city of the world. It's only fitting that, at long last, Aotearoa finally got a taste of the artist's highest acclaimed album.
Decorated from head to toe in sequins, sparkles, cowboy hats and the coveted feather boas, punters, who had been lining up as early as two days before the concert itself, descended on Mt. Smart Stadium bright eyed and bushy tailed, eager to get as close to Styles as they possibly could. His charm, wit and general crowd interaction is a major selling point of the tour itself - something all 47,000 attendees were eager to get a taste of.
Aotearoa's own Ny Oh and Isle of Wight-based band Wet Leg opened the show, to a crowd that, although mixed in demographic, got behind every single beat. Seeing Wet Leg at Mt Smart was a bit of a big deal; the last time they were here, they performed to a sold-out Tuning Fork - a venue which can hold up to 300 people. Fast forward eight months, playing to a sold-out stadium, comprising a crowd who, for the most part, know every word to every song, is something to marvel at.
I always admire an artist who has an impeccable pre-show playlist - it shows that not only do they know their crowd well, but when done right, the right selection can show that they know the city, or in this case, country, well too. Classic tracks such as 'Best Song Ever' by One Direction and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen had the crowd doing vocal somersaults over one another, singing as loud as they could.
What took me by surprise was the addition of Poi E by Pātea Māori Club - released in 1983, sung entirely in te reo, now playing to a crowded stadium before Harry Styles of all people graced the stage. He knew his crowd, and where he was in the world, extremely well.
Styles is known for his on-stage outfits. Some are understated, some are extremely overstated, and most, if not all of them, end up being one of the main focal points of every performance. The last time he was in Aotearoa, he wore an all-black suit, assumingly paying homage to the All Blacks. Last night, he wore a short sleeve raglan tee with a bejewelled whale's tail adorning it, with a pair of purple dress pants. Not the most spectacular outfit compared to his recent Australia tour, but we'll take what we can get.
After all, fashion comes second when you're stood mere metres from One Direction's Golden Child.
It's always special when an artist comes to any given country and does more than just plays their show and jump on the next flight home. On his recent Australian tour, Styles immersed himself in the culture of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, and his stop in Aotearoa was no exception.
At his first break in the show, Styles, who, earlier in the day, had spent time with Te Matatini finalists, Angitū, sang the start of 'Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi' - written by Canon Wiremu Te Tau Huata in the 1950s.
The crowd, clearly stunned, sung the rest of the waiata back to him without hesitation while he danced around the stage. He continued to do this multiple times throughout the night, which kept the crowd on their toes. I was almost waiting for it to happen every time he got the chance to speak. At one point in the concert, he picked a Tino Rangatiratanga flag from the crowd, and put it on his mic stand - the flag found itself to be a permanent fixture on the stage for the rest of the night.
The moments of the concert I remember the most vividly seem to be the same at almost every one I go to; the times when the whole crowd is still, flashlights up, yelling the lyrics of the saddest songs back at the person singing them - and last night was no exception. At the end of the catwalk which spanned what felt like ten trillion miles, Styles performed 'Matilda', 'Little Freak', and 'Satellite' one after the other, and for all three songs, I've never heard a crowd with so much gusto.
Harry performed songs from across all three released bodies of work, such as 'Woman', to 'Golden', and even far back as a new rendition of One Direction's seminal hit, 'What Makes You Beautiful'. He even snuck in crowd-favourite unreleased weapon, 'Medicine' which went viral during the tour for his last album, Fine Line. During every song, the crowd didn't hold back. So much energy in one space - it was amazing to bear witness to.
It's crazy to think that, from Harry's end, there are 47,000 people in the same space as you are singing the words to the music you wrote back at you. Those moments stick with an artist - I feel as though they stick with the crowd for eternity.
Crowd interaction is paramount for an artist as big as Styles. Throughout his time as a solo performer, he's always placed a large emphasis on connecting with his crowds, and as he's grown, the interactions have only evolved to be more intense.
Last night was no exception. From pointing out a fan who had been throwing fruit at him (which then proceeded to him singing a two-minute-long song about people dressed as bananas, eggs, aubergines, so on and so forth), the singer, who encourages fans to bring signs with him to his shows, went back and forth with two fans. One, who allegedly sold their cats leg to be at the show, and the other, who was with her best friend going through a breakup. After finding out the now ex-boyfriend wasn't prioritising them, hence the breakup, he told the crowd to "not be a Michael, be a Romy!"
Styles also asked the crowd about the census, telling everyone that he too had filled it out prior to the show.
Finishing with crowd favourite, and aptly named, 'Kiwi', Styles had made the nights of 12-year-olds with their parents and mid-40-year-olds alike, as well as everyone in between. Harry Styles is truly an artist who transcends all levels of musical talent and incomparable wit, with a hint of charm that can't be matched.
The remnants of the 47,000 plus feather boas will live on the field of Mt Smart Stadium until Harry Styles makes his triumphant return to Aotearoa.
Admittedly, he doesn't actually know when that will be. All he knows is that he hopes it won't be too long.
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【Harry Styles/ As It Was】和訳 コレが今のハリー・スタイルズ The Harry Today
【Harry Styles/ As It Was】和訳 コレが今のハリー・スタイルズ The Harry Today
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Congrats, Harry! アメリカでNo.1に輝いたのは、これがお初のHarry、めでたい！
実は、Harryのこの曲をリリースされてすぐに和訳したのに、またもや放置したままでいたら、アルバムリリースされそうになっちゃって、ヤバっ！となってます。ごめんね、Harry。
しかしアメリカのNo.1が、イギリスの80’sぽいデジタルサウンドの曲だとは面白い。
このピコピコメロディは、前回紹介したDepeche…
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Harry Styles with Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon on the red carpet at the 2023 BRIT Awards - 02.11.2023
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In the PRS for Music Most Performed Work category, Harry Styles’ 2022 megahit “As It Was,” which he co-wrote with Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, which won the award last year, is nominated for the second year running.
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Another pic of Harry Edward Styles, along with Des, Tyler Johnson, and Kid Harpoon. Maybe Kid and Tyler are writing HS4! LOL
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Songwriter and producer Tyler Johnson has told Music Week that the success of As It Was represents the strength of the relationship between Harry Styles and his collaborators.
Johnson, who is signed to Pulse Music Group, was speaking to Music Week for our latest edition of Hitmakers, in which he told the story of As It Was, which was written by Styles, Johnson and Kid Harpoon (real name Tom Hull). Hull won our Songwriter Of The Year Award in 2020 and told the story of Watermelon Sugar in a previous edition of Hitmakers.
Styles has been working with Johnson and Hull since his self-titled first album, which hit No.1 in 2017. Johnson worked across that record, while Hull co-wrote Two Ghosts before contributing more significantly to Fine Line. The trio worked on the bulk of this year’s Harry’s House (369,734 sales) together, and Johnson said their closeness helped contribute to the album’s record-breaking performance.
“There’s something very fluid about the song as a representation of the three of us having made records together for almost six years,” said Johnson. “As It Was shows us – and the whole album represents this – in a really good zone where we’re just doing our thing. There’s a lot of trust between us.”
Speaking further about the evolution of his relationship with Styles, Johnson described Styles as “fearless”.
“Harry really allows Tom and me to have a voice in the music and in that way, it’s reflective of being a band,” he said. “He’s very, very intelligent and he fully gets album making. Our fearless leader was truly confident and that mattered for all of the people around him. It’s a very real thing when somebody who is the figurehead of a creative process feels confident in what they want and knows what they’re doing, it makes everyone involved feel free and do their little bit to make it right. Now, he’s just a full-blown force.”
Mitch Rowland, guitarist in Styles’ live band, has also contributed to all three of Styles’ albums, and Johnson noted that his playing on As It Was helped add the finishing touches to the song.
“Really, the record was about where it’s at now after three or four days,” he said. “It didn’t go through a lot of [changes], there was never anything drastic. I had a guitarist friend, Doug Showalter, add electric guitars and some transition sounds. Then we got the tubular bells – Harry’s idea – and I’ve got a video of him playing those. We then had Mitch come in to do some live drums and we chopped those up for the ending to give it a more bombastic feeling.”
As It Was was the product of writing sessions at Sony Music Group CEO Rob Stringer’s house, where the trio holed up for a time during the pandemic.
“Harry was sitting on the Moog One and I liked what he was playing, so I sat down and played as he started to write the melodies and the lyrics,” Johnson said. “I said to Harry, ‘We need a lead line’ and he just came up right away with the ‘Dah, dah, dah...’ part. He didn’t hesitate. Then he started writing the second verse and referring to himself in the third person. So much of this song just came from Harry’s heart. And then Tom, with this magical sense of hooks that he has, came up with the idea of doing, ‘You know it’s not the same…’ after the chorus, which I was very impressed with. That turned out to be a very smart move.”
They were working in the living room at the house, with Styles, Johnson and Hull working with engineer Jeremy Hatcher.
“It’s definitely the most British lifestyle I’ve ever lived,” said Johnson. “We had a lady there that helped us prepare food and she would make delicious treats and Sunday brunch. Getting away for a second and getting that space allowed us to get into a new side [of ourselves].”
Johnson explained that Styles’ vision for As It Was immediately clear.
“It’s got such a mellowness to it and it doesn’t really go for any big moments,” he said. “Harry had the vision for it to be the lead single. I’m very impressed at how he saw that it was what his audience wanted, and also people in general – it’s not just his fans who have taken to the song. When it came out on Spotify and I pressed play I got a good feeling in my stomach like, ‘I like that people are hearing this song.’”
The co-writer also noted the importance of the video, which has now racked up 328,490,374 views.
“I got to see the video with the rest of the world, I’ll be honest, I didn’t know he could dance like that!” he said. “It’s a continuation of him being one of a kind and providing an experience for his fans that is unique, fun and engaging.”
Meanwhile, Pulse Music Group CEO Scott Cutler was effusive in his praise of As It Was.
"Tyler and Harry have had a lot of hits together, but this song really stands on its own as one of the very best songs written," he told Music Week. "I played it at least a hundred times in a row when I heard it and was truly moved."
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