a timeline of hs3 hints (soz it got kind of long)
february 2020:
Kid Harpoon, Music Week (snippet from interview that's behind a paywall that was posted in March after the Brits): “He’s going to evolve. The next album, I find that exciting, what’s the next album going to be? And the one after that, and beyond?” he said. “It’s [changing] as he discovers, I find it so refreshing.” “It's not like he's different when he's not writing to when he is, if that makes sense. To me, he's always writing, he sends me piano ideas all the time and I send him ideas,” said Hull. “He’ll play piano, write some chords, say, ‘These lyrics are kind of cool’, then we’ll try it out. We text all the time about ideas, we haven’t stopped.” Hull described their creative process as “a constantly moving thing”. “Harry is very creative, it’s non-stop working, when we’re in the studio it’s not like, ‘It’s 10am, let’s start, how do we write a song?’ We’re already going, it’s constant. What I love about him is that he is full of ideas.”
march 2020:
Harry on Zane Lowe in Quarantine: "I've been writing so much. I'm doing some other stuff I should be doing more of anyway, I should be playing the piano more, I should be playing the guitar more, I should be writing poems and lyrics more. So I've kind of been doing a lot of that."
Harry for Capital FM: “I've been writing a lot, nothing too random. Playing more instruments, reading more, walking, trying to exercise and not eat everything in the house."
april 2020:
Harry for OpenHouseParty: “I think actually a combination [of sad and happy]. I think a big thing is, you know, definitely been feeling like writing with no pressure cause it’s just kind of me in a room and playing and taking my time with it. So, I think allowing whatever comes to come rather than feel like ‘Oh, I need to write a song like this, or I need to write a song like this’ has actually been quite nice.”
Harry for Radio 2: “I’ll get up and do some exercise, do some writing and record a little bit”
july 2020:
Harry uses Shangri La Studios where he recorded a lot of Fine Line, to record his sleep story
august 2020:
Tyler, Harry’s collaborator along with multiple sound engineers and instrumentalists credited on Fine Line in the studio together in London near Abbey Road
Harry spotted in Bath (with Kid, Jeff Bhasker and potentially Tyler according to other girls who met him) near Real World Studios, again a studio used for Fine Line
december 2020:
Harry’s Vogue interview: “In the music he has been working on in 2020, Styles wants to capture the experimental spirit that informed his second album, last year’s Fine Line.”
Harry uses Shangri La studios again to perform with the Free Nationals for iHeart’s Jingle Ball
Harry in his Variety acceptance speech: “I will be getting back into the studio”
jan 2021:
Ben & Gabe Turner about TPWK ending the Fine Line era, Music Week: “It was always supposed to be the last thing on the album run as an ending beat, and the album did so well that it just carried on,” said Gabe Turner. “We just didn’t know when [it would drop]. New Year’s Day 2021 was the perfect release date for us in the end.”
Steven Stokey Daley (Golden MV designer) potentially hinting at another collaboration for Harry: “2021 plans? What’s next for you?” “I’m currently working on a new offering for A/W 21 and I’ve had the pleasure of working with Harry Lambert again for an exciting upcoming project. Yes, I am being purposefully vague.”
february 2021:
Tyler spending Valentine’s Day away from his wife at Real World Studios...where a lot of Fine Line was recorded
march 2021:
Kid posting being in the studio with Tyler, who he only really works with for Harry...
Kid Harpoon, Music Week (from an interview done in December 2020): “I just know he’s got more to give, which is kind of scary to be honest,” he said. “We’ve been doing bits and bobs, we’ve been sending voice notes and working on bits here and there, just lyrics and bits and bobs. Hopefully there’ll be something [new] at some point, I don’t really know where we are, but we’ve definitely been getting into it, we’ll see.” “Harry was in Japan and he said, ‘Do you want to come out and write?’ and I said, ‘Why don’t I come and I’ll stay in a hotel room near you and we’ll hire a mic and some guitars and I’ll just bring my laptop,’” Hull explained. “It was a vaguely disguised lads’ trip, but we also wrote some really good songs. There’s a couple we’re still in love with. There was one that nearly made it to the record. We have a couple from there that are really special that hopefully will see the light of day at some point.” Hull said he and Styles are “still obsessed” with the song, though he did not reveal the title. “It’s the same as the Watermelon thing with this song,” he said. “It’s got… There’s a certain feeling in it, we’re just going to have to chip away at it and hopefully get it.”
Harry Lambert, Vogue: “The starkness of Styles’s second outfit stands in contrast to the retro, colourful aesthetic he has become associated with, which is precisely what made it the right choice. “I think people could assume that, as he was performing his single “Watermelon Sugar”, his look would reflect the music video,” explains Lambert. “We wanted to twist that on its head and go for something darker, sexier, and more unexpected.” Indeed, the pastel colour scheme and sweetness of the video were noticeably absent. In their place was a glam rock-influenced vibe that signalled the start of a new era. “I don’t feel that anyone has seen Harry dress like this before, so the Grammys felt the perfect moment to do this,” says Lambert. “[It is] a sort of full stop after the promotion of the Fine Line album. For stage, it’s sexy, minimal, a bit eccentric but still fun.”
This Green and Black colour scheme is continued in his appearances and his tour rebranding for the rescheduled dates in the US
may 2021:
Harry’s surprise Brits appearance outfit fits with the colour scheme of one of his other Grammy outfits
Harry then carries an orange phone case with him, similar to the pink case he had during HS1
july 2021:
Emily Bode, for a podcast: ‘We have a couple of beautiful features coming out, more times where he's wearing our clothes that i cant wait to see the pictures of him in’
Harry confirms news about new music soon in his update about tour
Tyler talks about working with Harry and implies he also worked with him on HS3
It’s pointed out that in Harry’s merch drop of his socks in November 2020, he has the colour scheme of Green and Black
Harry outside a studio in LA with Tyler and Mitch
september 2021:
Amy Allen, cowriter of Adore You mentions she’s “psyched to hear his new album coming out” after collecting their award at the Ivors
november 2021:
Harry spotted going into Sony Music headquarters in NYC
december 2021:
HDD releases a profile on Rob Stringer, head of Sony Music and hints at hs3 coming before the end of the fiscal quarter in March 2022: “Fiscally speaking, Stringer has Sony set up for a milestone 2021. Sony surpassed $2b in streaming revenue alone in the first half of fiscal '21, and, on the heels of another major period in Q3 led by Adele, Mariah Carey and SZA, Stringer has Sony positioned for victory laps in Q4 with Harry Styles and Beyoncé rounding out the fiscal year (ending 3/30/22) with potential blockbuster sets.”
HDD then retract this statement stating: “Rumors that appeared previously on this site about forthcoming releases from Beyoncé and Harry Styles were inaccurate and not based on information from their label. We apologize for any confusion.”....interesting.
Ron Perry, head of Columbia comments on the rumours of Beyonce and Harry releasing in 2022 “Let us finish 2021 first, please! We’re not done yet!”
The Director at UMG Publishing comments on Harry’s success and upcoming album in an interview with Music Week: “A bugbear of mine is that we produce so much great, innovative music in the UK, but where are the superstars? Where is the next Adele or Ed Sheeran? And [signing Styles] was one of the first decisions made when I got here. Jody [Gerson, UMPG chairman and CEO] was instrumental in the deal as well. We just went, 'The guy is a superstar, and they are so few and far between that we have to do everything we can to convince him to sign to us! Thankfully, he did. [Fine Line] has proved he can stand on his own two feet and be an original artist in his own right. I hear (his next record) is coming together very well and hopefully, it will be even bigger, better and more successful than the last, which was an extraordinary success. He's very much in charge of his destiny."
Harry in his interview with Dazed magazine talks about part of the process in making HS3: “Just as he’s trying to imagine what a beauty brand can mean for a younger generation, he’s also looking at the future possibilities of pop music, albeit starting from a clean slate. On the precipice of his Saturn’s Return (Styles turns 28 in February), he seems ready to enter a new, risk-taking and career-defining chapter. “I have unlocked an ability to be myself completely, unapologetically,” he says with conviction. “I started only listening to classical music because it felt like it gave me a blank canvas to work from. So I wasn’t hearing things I would then be referencing. I think that so much creativity comes from my boredom and giving myself the chance not to be distracted by things. I’m the most human I’ve felt in a long time, for sure.”
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