Harry Styles explains what 'Season 2 Weight Loss' is about and why song is his new album's 'mission statement'
Harry Styles explains what 'Season 2 Weight Loss' is about and why song is his new album's 'mission statement'
Kathleen PerriconeSat, March 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM UTC
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Harry Styles in the music video for 'American Girls'Credit: Harry Styles/YouTube
Harry Styles continues to reinvent himself, and on his fourth solo album he's showing off his "Season 2 Weight Loss."
The singer recently discussed his latest release, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, shedding some light on its peculiarly named seventh track, which he calls the "mission statement of the record."
"You know when there's, like, a Netflix show and then it blows up and everyone comes back in the second season?" Styles asked Apple Music's Zane Lowe in an interview this week. "Everyone’s got a nutritionist, and everyone's got a trainer, and everyone suddenly looks amazing? Season 2 weight loss."
The pop star continued, "So, it's like this idea of just coming back as like… this is the same character, but suddenly he has cheekbones. That was what it was for me — like I felt like I was coming back as, like, a stronger version of myself."
In between Styles' metaphorical "seasons" — his world tours — he typically grows a mustache, which he then shaves off before hitting the road again. And each time, he said on the show, "There would be some feeling of, like, this isn't the version of me that people expect."
"I think the idea of it was, like, less in a facial hair thought, but more in the idea of if I go away and grow and change my relationship with this idea of feeling like I have to show up as this version of myself, will you take me as that?'" he explained. "Or are you taking me because I show up as this version of myself that you've kind of desired from me in some way?"
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That sentiment, said Styles, is what inspired the chorus of "Season 2 Weight Loss," which goes: "Do you love me now? / Do I let you down? / Holding out, hoping love will come around."
The cover of 'Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally'Credit: Courtesy of Columbia Records
Styles also revealed the mystery woman behind the album's closing track, "Carla": someone he met through mutual friends who had never heard Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" until he played it for her.
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"Watching her listen to it [for the first time] felt like I was just watching someone see… in Technicolor or discover magic,” he described to Lowe. "There was something in that moment that reminded me of, by making music, what you're investing in, and it's songs that go so beyond our lifetime."
Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally is out now. Check out Harry Styles' full Apple Music interview below.
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