Fun fact: when the idea of starting a blog first popped into my mind all those years ago, I thought that it definitely would be a music blog. As a fourteen year old, music was everything to me - I decorated all of my notebooks with song lyrics and I pored over TigerBeat Magazines for new posters to put up on my walls.
Among those posters was, of course, One Direction. I "discovered" them just before their first single "What Makes You Beautiful" dropped in the UK, and I was thoroughly obsessed. After all, what teenage girl wouldn't be in love with five boys from another part of the world who sang about looking past my insecurities? Definitely not me, that's for sure.
Fast forward to the present, and while my high-key obsession with One Direction faded long ago (one concert, five albums, and a whole lot of emotions later), I am still guilty of keeping tabs on the 1D boys, most specifically Harry and Niall. The songs they wrote were most closely aligned with the kind of music I have come to identify as "my type", and I always had hopes that they would release their own music.
That's why when Harry Styles dropped his first ever full-length, I was pretty stoked. After listening to it straight through a couple of times, I knew that I had to talk about this record, even if it means diverging slightly from my regularly scheduled "college blogger !!" programming.
I love this album - it has great lyrical content, a nostalgic feel, and it simply sounds beautiful. (Also, can we talk about the cover art??? Wow.)
However, I don't think this album was totally without fault; there are some songs that I love more than others, and if you're interested in a track-by-track review, read on!
