“I’m baaack,” Harry Styles said to open his concert in Inglewood on Friday night, and he didn’t just mean with a second solo album. “It wouldn’t be an album launch for me without this young lady,” Styles told the audience, his tone slightly chummier and less awestruck than it was at the Troubadour. Harry Styles and Stevie Nicks duet on Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide.” (Helene Pambrun)What’s interesting is that this throwback vibe hasn’t cost Styles his place near the center of the zeitgeist. Even the folky “Cherry” — widely thought to be about Styles’ ex the French model Camille Rowe — puts a welcome wrinkle in a familiar form. “It’s snowing in California,” Styles pointed out — a trick of place to go with his tricks of time.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 14, 2019 21:45 UTC