{"id":973924,"date":"2019-12-06T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923350"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:50:54","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-harry-styles-adore-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-harry-styles-adore-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Harry Styles, \u2018Adore You\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harry Styles<\/a> seems to be cribbing from another famous Harry in his new video for \u201cAdore You\u201d<\/a>: Harry Nilsson<\/a>. The cheeky, weird and magical video echoes, in part, Nilsson\u2019s equally storybook-esque concept album-film, 1970\u2019s The Point!<\/em><\/p>\n

Style\u2019s video centers around a figurative (and literal) fish out of water: the only boy in the dour Isle of Eroda who can smile and his unnamed fish pal. Nilsson\u2019s film follows a similar conceit: It\u2019s about round-headed boy named Oblio who lives in a Pointed Village where everyone has pyramid heads, and his trusty companion, a dog named Arrow. Styles also enlists Rosal\u00eda for dramatic voiceover that seems to echo Ringo Starr\u2019s The Point!<\/em> narration.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just the visuals that appear to be a nod to Nilsson: It\u2019s also the way Styles earnestly flirts with the absurd. What could be a simple ballad about love and devotion becomes all the more endearing when delivered to a pet fish that continues growing and growing to more outlandish proportions. \u201cI\u2019d walk through fire for you\/Just let me adore you<\/a>\/Like it\u2019s the only thing I\u2019ll ever do,\u201d he promises the scaly creature, turning a sweet love song into something entirely cheekier. By proxy, Nilsson\u2019s Oblio serenades his dog with the romantic track \u201cMe and My Arrow\u201d: \u201cWherever we go, everyone knows\/It\u2019s me and my arrow.\u201d Whether sung to a lover or dog, the song has dual purposes.<\/p>\n

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