When sequestered at home, days seem to run together into one impossible mess. But now they won’t because I’ll remember to divide time spent sheltering in place as the time before Harry Styles dropped his ineffable ode to going down and the time after.
In the video for his super-sweet single “Watermelon Sugar,” Styles enjoys the summer treat with some gorgeous women on a faultless California day. There’s so much touching and celebration of bodies and closeness it almost feels like a dream—and in the current reality, it is, and a marvelous one at that. While Styles may be a sex symbol for many, this is truly a moment of no return for the singer: he has never been this explicit and simultaneously playful, and the result is unexpectedly thrilling.
Styles begins his music video with this clever dedication, just short of slapping a PG-13 advisory on an otherwise extremely charming, fun, and flirty visual with a whole lot of playful groping. If this is what dropping molly with Styles is like, count me all the way in:
