Harry Styles does the rounds on radio to launch new music era
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Harry Styles spent the morning across UK radio unveiling his next chapter.
The pop star made a sweep of major breakfast shows today, appearing on BBC Radio 2, Capital Breakfast and Hits Radio to mark the release of his new single Aperture, discuss his third solo album Kiss All The Time, and reflect on the thinking behind his upcoming Together, Together tour.
On BBC Radio 2 with Scott Mills, Harry reunited with a presenter who has known him since the earliest days of One Direction. Their conversation mixed new music with reflection, as Styles spoke about how years of constant touring shaped his relationship with fame and creativity.
He explained that spending long stretches on stage can distort perspective, and that stepping away helped him reconnect with the audience experience that first drew him to music.
“Spending so much time on a stage, it’s easy to forget what the feeling is of the people in the audience,” he said, adding that the last few years have been about “getting back on the other side of that experience and reminding myself how magical it is to stand in a room with strangers and sing and dance together.”
That renewed outlook fed directly into Aperture, which Styles described as the final song written for the album and a mission statement for the project, centred on openness, transition and accepting change.
“The opening and allowing for more things, and in turn more positive things, was a lot of what this album is about,” he said.
On Capital Breakfast with Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby, he spoke about taking three years away from touring before committing to a new record.
He said finishing his last tour made him question the automatic cycle of albums and live dates, and that he needed a clearer reason to return.
“I really needed a strong why of why I would be making another album,” he said, explaining that attending shows as a fan again helped shape the sound and intent of the record.
The Capital interview also focused on the Together, Together tour, which includes London dates. Styles said he was “honoured” and “blown away” that Shania Twain will join him for the UK dates, calling her one of his earliest musical influences and recalling childhood memories of singing along to her songs with his mum.
Styles also appeared on Hits Radio with Fleur East, Will Best and James Barr, describing the excitement of finally releasing music after four years.
He explained that Aperture naturally became the album’s opening track because it was always the first song he played to others while making the record. “It felt like what I wanted people to hear first to set the stage for it,” he said.
He also described the album title as a personal mantra shaped by how he has lived over the past few years and teased that the tour is designed to remove the traditional divide between artist and audience, focusing instead on shared energy and connection.
Across all three appearances, Styles framed his return not as a comeback, but as a reset, shaped by time away, new experiences and rediscovering the joy of music from both sides of the stage.
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