Harry Styles returned to Saturday Night Live to perform tracks from ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’, and address previous accusations of “queerbaiting”.
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The former One Direction singer turned soloist released his new album last week (March 6), and stopped by SNL to perform ‘Dance No More’ and ‘Coming Up Roses’. The first saw him introduced by Ryan Gosling, who crashed his show much like Styles had crashed the Project Hail Mary star’s episode.
The latter track was introduced by Paul Simon, whom Styles has often cited as a huge influence on his sound, previously sharing that One Direction’s ‘Walking in the Wind’ was a tribute to ‘Graceland’.
Elsewhere in last night’s (March 14) episode, a monologue from the host and musical guest saw Styles address past claims that he was “queerbaiting” with his eccentric fashion choices.
“Back then,” he explained, “people seemed to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing, and some people accused me of something called queerbaiting. But did it ever occur to you that maybe you don’t know everything about me, Dad?”
The singer also nodded to the name of his new record and jokingly said he used AI to come up with it, saying: “I did a prompt on ChatGPT that said, ‘Give me the most Italian phrase to ever exist,’ and it came back with Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.”
He went on to say, “Sometimes kissing can be great, you know, if you’re really good at it, and you’re a good person, or if you have a tight little bum”, after which Ben Marshall appeared on stage and kissed Styles, who concluded, “Now that’s queerbaiting.”
His SNL stint comes after he performed ‘Kiss All The Time…’ in full at a special ‘One Night Only’ concert in Manchester last week. 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.”
He has also played a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge set, including a cover of Tears For Fears’ ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’.
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.
