After years with One Direction and two highly successful solo albums, Harry Styles is one of today’s best-known artists. While his personal sound is quite different as a soloist than when he was part of the boy band, his writing style doesn’t seem to differ much. While Styles definitely evolved, a powerful ballad that she wrote for Ariana Grande’s first album plays all the right notes her fans have loved about her music.
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Harry Styles wrote a song for Ariana Grande’s debut album
While Styles was still with One Direction, he wrote a couple of songs for other artists, in addition to writing with the band. He wrote “I Love You” for Alex & Sierra in 2014 just before writing “Just a Little Bit of Your Heart,” which was a song on Grande’s debut album.
In an interview with MTV UK in 2014 before the release of My everythingGrande said Styles visited the studio they were in with producers Savan Kotecha and Johan Carlsson. They asked him if he wanted to write a song for Grande.
“He went into the other room and they were writing for a while,” he recalled. “I remember when I heard it I thought ‘Wow, it’s a really strong verse, it’s really beautiful’ and then the pre, I thought ‘Wow, it’s a really beautiful pre, it’s a really strong pre!'”
Grande shared that when the choir arrived, she was crying.
Like E! Online reported in 2014, Grande was highly appreciative of the song and very grateful to Styles.
“I think people know Harry, of course, first and foremost as a singer, but I think they will be very impressed when they hear his writing skills,” he said.
Styles performed it at his concerts and some fans wish they had saved it for him.
Styles never released a cover version of his own, as it was Grande’s, but he still included it on the tracklist for his first tour in 2018 after the release of its first album.
In a YouTube clip of his 2018 St. Paul, MN concert, Styles explains that the song was one he gave away, but he was getting it back for that performance.
Looking back, fans wish they had kept the song, as some said in YouTube comments about its performance in St. Paul. And that’s not in response to the Grande version, but more so because Styles fans really want a clear, studio version to listen to.
But ultimately, it seems that fans only enjoy their performance, where you can see how sincere the words are.
Who Hurt Harry Styles?
The song is very bleak. The lyrics tell the story of someone who is in love with someone else who doesn’t really give them much excitement in return. They feel that they are in a one-sided relationship and they know that this other person is seeing other people.
It gets to the point where the singer calls himself a fool and would do anything to get the attention of the person he loves. “I know I am not, you are alone / But at least I am one / I heard that a little love is better than nothing.”
With lyrics like these, fans obviously love it, but they’re also wondering who could hurt Styles like this. Why did it happen?
Of course, that’s the beauty of writing songs. An artist can tell his story through the lyrics without revealing the whole truth. Fans now have a hauntingly beautiful song that sounds great when both Grande and Styles sing it.
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