{"id":973678,"date":"2019-11-22T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916437"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:56:59","slug":"harry-styles-talks-mushrooms-therapy-fine-line-with-zane-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/harry-styles-talks-mushrooms-therapy-fine-line-with-zane-lowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles Talks Mushrooms, Therapy, \u2018Fine Line\u2019 With Zane Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harry Styles<\/a> discussed grappling with commercial pressure but ultimately embracing a more fun mentality with his new album Fine Line<\/i><\/a> during an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music\u2019s Beats 1 radio. The interview will air Friday, November 22nd, at 12 p.m. ET on New Music Daily; all quotes below were pulled from a transcript provided by Apple Music.<\/p>\n

Fine Line<\/i> marks Styles\u2019 second studio album, and during the chat he acknowledged that his self-titled solo debut \u201cwasn\u2019t a radio record\u201d and that, in the lead up to Fine Line<\/i>, he \u201cfelt a lot of pressure to be making these big songs.\u201d Styles said it was ultimately his collaborator and Fine Line <\/i>producer Tyler Johnson who set him straight, telling him, \u201cYou just have to make the record that you want to make right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, Styles said he wanted to be more fun and adventurous with Fine Line<\/i>. \u201cWhen I listen to the first album now, I can hear all of the places where I feel like I was playing it safe, because I just didn\u2019t want to get it wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I guess a big part of going into this album was I spent a lot of time thinking about the whole process of, you make an album, and then you put it out\u2026 and then you tour it. I kind of went into the second one feeling like I want to work out how to make all of this feel really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Styles also spoke about experimenting with psychedelic mushrooms, which he previously touched on in a Rolling Stone <\/i>cover story<\/a>. He told Lowe he doesn\u2019t take substances and rarely drinks while working, but he quipped, \u201cI\u2019m not a politician,\u201d and explained that he took mushrooms to have fun and fuel his creativity in a different way. He added that they were even therapeutic in a way.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that that\u2019s been a big part of this whole thing for me. I\u2019m just trying to go through life being a little less worried about stuff,\u201d Styles said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t hit the top of the chart, your life doesn\u2019t change. If that was what I was aiming at, and then it didn\u2019t happen, then I\u2019d feel so much worse. But redefining it for me has been amazing to be like, \u2018Oh, but that\u2019s not the game I\u2019m playing.\u2019 There\u2019s a freedom with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Styles spoke about how certain album tracks \u2014 \u201cGolden,\u201d \u201cCherry\u201d and \u201cFalling\u201d \u2014 came about and allowing himself to be more vulnerable and honest. He also discussed sharing an early version of Fine Line <\/i>with Oasis\u2019 Liam Gallagher, some of his earliest One Direction memories and how therapy helped him counter some of the \u201cnavel-gazing\u201d inherent in the music writing process.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking an album, I feel like is the most self-indulgent time you can think of, really,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause you\u2019re just like, \u2018How do I feel about this?\u2019 I think with the therapy thing, I just realized I was just getting in my own way. It\u2019s been a thing where I\u2019ve definitely felt it have an impact on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harry Styles discussed grappling with commercial pressure but ultimately embracing a more fun mentality with his new album Fine Line during an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music\u2019s Beats 1 radio. The interview will air Friday, November 22nd, at 12 p.m. ET on New Music Daily; all quotes below were pulled from a transcript […]<\/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-973678","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 23:23:51","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\/973678","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=973678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}