Former idol of millions of teenagers when he triumphed in the "boy band" One Direction, the British singer and actor is today a global idol for all audiences.

And his latest album "Harry's House", with sweet and tender accents, reveals a 28-year-old man, in love, full of desires, sexy and glamorous.

While remaining, according to his fans, shy and modest.

The 13-track disc evokes the atmosphere of a bright summer afternoon in California, by a pool, and carries with force the qualities of the most perfected writing of Styles.

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Until making his fans blush.

"I feel like it's kind of a cross-section of everything I like and it's very close to the album I've always wanted to make, I'm really happy about it," Harry Styles launched after performing on NBC's "Today" morning show at Rockefeller Plaza in New York on Thursday.

"It's definitely the most personal record I think I've made," he said of a production influenced by "the pandemic and everything that's happened," especially in New York. , bruised and deserted in the spring of 2020.

British pop singer Harry Styles, on the occasion of the release of his third solo album "Harry's House" Angela Weiss AFP

"Harry's House" is "the most free music I have ever produced", concluded the artist, who in March 2021 won a Grammy, the highest award from the American music industry, for the best pop performance. alone.

Bare-chested, wearing dungarees sparkling with a thousand mirror ball lights, he caused a sensation last April at the very popular Californian festival of Coachella.

Harry Styles, born February 1, 1994 near Birmingham, England, rose to teenage fame with One Direction, triumphed as a "boy band" from 2010 to 2016, which will remain one of those teenage groups having sold the most records in the world.

2017's solo debut, Styles rocketed to the top of the charts, followed by equally resounding commercial success with 2019's "Fine Line."

His solo career then exploded.

gender identity

Styles embodies an emotional, approachable, charismatic crooner who doesn't blend into any assertive, empathetic sexual identity and who ultimately comes out as a champion of inclusion.

In his new song "Boyfriends", he presents himself as the dream antithesis of the "boyfriend" cliché, breaking through a masculinity considered toxic and setting himself up as an ally of broken hearts.

But his lyrics go much further than a bleeding romantic heart.

Harry Styles has a sexual appetite.

After a thinly veiled ode to cunnilingus in the title track "Watermelon Sugar" from his second album, "Harry's House" is about erotic dreams and orgasms.

"Green eyes, fried rice", he sings on the title "Music for A Sushi Restaurant" or "I could cook an egg on you": a choice of very daring words but which works in music and which translates the desire of the artist to reveal his desires.

Desire for whom?

But for whom?

The tabloids have been speculating about a romance with American actress and director Olivia Wilde, 38, especially since she cast him in her upcoming psychological thriller 'Don't Worry Darling'.

The title "Cinema" is a sexual ballad that seems to refer to her relationship with Wilde.

But despite highly suggestive texts, Styles, since he found fame, conscientiously protects his privacy.

British pop singer Harry Styles on stage for the NBC television show "Today" in New York Angela Weiss AFP

He wondered for years about his sexuality and his love life, but he recently felt that these questions were now "obsolete".

"What matters in the direction we are taking - accepting everyone and being more open - is that precisely that does not matter", he judged in the magazine Better Homes and Gardens, refusing to " put labels on everything and tick all the boxes".

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