On March 23, Harry Styles announced his third solo album, Harry’s House, which is set to be released on May 20, 2022. Leading up to this highly anticipated announcement, there was a lot of speculation circling the internet about Easter eggs (clues) that Styles has been dropping. Today the pieces to this puzzle are all connected, and fellow fans know all of our hard work is paying off!
A few weeks ago, a mysterious ad was popping up in very random newspapers all over the world. The ad was art that depicted an arched front door with the website: youarehome.co. Four days leading up to the album announcement, you have to click the door and it opened revealing a different picture behind it each day. Styles’ fans were able to find a connection for each image. Each days’ picture can be found on their Instagram since they were only up for 24 hours!
Harry Styles Head Quarters on Instagram is the go-to place for all Harries to get verified information. On the same day as the announcement, they posted a video promoting the new album, which seems to have proven our theories to be true. The mysterious website with the door, Styles emphasizing the word “home” throughout “Love On Tour,” tweets from You Are Home’s Twitter account, more fruit (grapes), the new pit names for the second leg of his tour. Most importantly there is a video on Twitter with the HSHQ announcement video in reverse, and it is pretty clear that it’s the music to a song. It’s unclear whether or not he plans to drop a single sooner or later, but the hope amongst fans was something would happen on March 25 at midnight. Obviously, nothing dropped, but hopefully, when a single comes, it’s related to the reversed audio!
Digging in deeper to the possible meaning behind Harry’s House, Styles could be referring to all the time he had at home during the pandemic. This was a time for a lot of artists to take a break out of the public eye, and use that time to influence their work. Could this have been a plan from the beginning of his solo career? Styles in his self-titled debut album “Harry Styles,” referred to home in the song “Sweet Creature” in the line “you bring me home…” He also references home in “Canyon Moon” from his second album Fine Line with the line “I’m going, oh, I’m going I’m going, oh, I’m going home…” Is this album completing a trilogy about making it home? Or could it be referring to him finally being his full self?
Hopefully the single will be dropped soon, but if not, we all know we have so much to look forward to! This is his most anticipated album, especially after all the success from Love On Tour in 2021, the upcoming second leg to the tour this year, and the guarantee of new music soon!