Harry Styles has covered Tears For Fears‘ ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’. Watch below.
- READ MORE: Harry Styles – ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’ review: pop superstar lets the light in
The pop star performed a take on the band’s 1985 single for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge today (Thursday March 12). He also played ‘Aperture’ and other cuts from his new album, ‘Kiss All Time Time. Disco, Occasionally’.
Styles’ and his live band’s soaring rendition of Tears For Fears’ new wave and synth-pop classic remained faithful to the original, and contained flourishes of brass, in keeping with the style of his new record.
The singer’s five-song setlist was completed by airings of ‘Carla’s Song’, ‘Dance No More’ and latest single ‘American Girls’. You can listen to the session in full via BBC Sounds, or watch the videos here:
Styles has previously covered Wet Leg’s ‘Wet Dream’, Lizzo’s ‘Juice’ and Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ in Radio 1’s Live Lounge.
Last Friday (March 6), he performed ‘Kiss All The Time…’ in full at a special ‘One Night Only’ concert in Manchester. The show was recorded for a new Netflix special, and featured an encore of hits including ‘As It Was’ and ‘Watermelon Sugar’. He gifted 50 pairs of tickets for the phone-free gig to pupils at his former school.
“This album is out in the world now, and it means so, so much to me,” he told the audience. “I hope that maybe one day it might mean a little something to you. I hope you have fun with it, I hope you have good times to it, I hope maybe one day it helps you through something hard as well.”
Styles will embark on his seven-city ‘Together, Together’ tour this spring. The trek boasts a record-breaking 12-night stint at London’s Wembley Stadium and a huge 30-date residency in New York.
In a four-star review, NME described ‘Kiss All The Time…’ as “an album that you’ll really want to spend a lot of time with, letting all its layers envelope you”. It read: “It’s the most exploratory album of his career so far, trying out new things and steering his ship in new directions.”
Styles gave ‘Aperture’ its live debut at the BRITs 2026 last month. He recently explained that follow-up single ‘American Girls’ was about watching his friends get married, saying: “It’s actually quite a lonely song in a lot of ways.”
Elsewhere, the singer made a cameo appearance during Ryan Gosling’s opening monologue on Saturday Night Live last week, ahead of Styles pulling double duty on the show this weekend.
In other news, Styles has explained the reasoning behind hosting residencies in multiple cities instead of embarking on a full global tour. The singer has remembered how watching Radiohead perform in Berlin had inspired him to play live again, too.
He has also reflected on the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne. “Full transparency, it’s like something that I, even the idea of talking about it, I struggle with that a little bit,” he said.
