{"id":973563,"date":"2019-11-17T07:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913708"},"modified":"2019-11-17T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:11:32","slug":"watch-harry-styles-play-soulful-watermelon-sugar-lights-up-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-harry-styles-play-soulful-watermelon-sugar-lights-up-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Harry Styles Play Soulful \u2018Watermelon Sugar,\u2019 \u2018Lights Up\u2019 on \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-17-at-8.34.10-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/harry-styles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-styles\" data-tag=\"harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a> staged the live TV debut of his two new songs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-watermelon-sugar-new-song-911892\/\">\u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-lights-up-new-video-watch-897176\/\">\u201cLights Up,\u201d<\/a> on <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/i>. Both tracks appear on the singer\u2019s upcoming second LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-announces-sophomore-album-fine-line-906471\/\"><em>Fine Line<\/em><\/a>, out December 13th. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For the soulful \u201cWatermelon Sugar,\u201d Styles crooned over warm keys, horn blasts and eruptions of distorted wah-wah guitar. \u201cBreathe me in, breathe me out\/I don\u2019t know if I could ever go without,\u201d he sang. \u201cI\u2019m just thinking out loud\/I don\u2019t know if I could ever go without.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0cH2XlQW3s?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Styles, who also hosted the episode, slipped into ballad mode for \u201cLights Up,\u201d showcasing a raspy tone and smooth vibrato. The band built from oceanic piano chords and fingerpicked acoustic guitar to a gently swaying groove, as the frontman played call-and-response with a lonely trumpet and trio of backing vocalists. \u201cAll the lights couldn\u2019t put out the dark\/Running through my heart,\u201d he belted. \u201cLights up and they know who you are\/Do you know who you are?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/harry-styles-cover-interview-album-871568\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> cover story<\/a>, Styles detailed the creative process for <em>Fine Line<\/em>, which follows his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-harry-styles-is-a-true-rock-star-on-superb-solo-debut-119736\/\">self-titled solo debut<\/a> in 2017. He noted the new LP is \u201call about having sex and feeling sad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pop star will promote the record on a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-2020-tour-jenny-lewis-911413\/\">2020 world tour<\/a>. The trek, featuring Jenny Lewis as opener, kicks off in April with a string of dates in the U.K. and Europe before a North American leg that launches June 26th in Philadelphia and runs through early September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-watermelon-sugar-lights-up-snl-913708\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Styles staged the live TV debut of his two new songs, \u201cWatermelon Sugar\u201d and \u201cLights Up,\u201d on Saturday Night Live. Both tracks appear on the singer\u2019s upcoming second LP, Fine Line, out December 13th. For the soulful \u201cWatermelon Sugar,\u201d Styles crooned over warm keys, horn blasts and eruptions of distorted wah-wah guitar. \u201cBreathe me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 18:31:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}