Harry Styles releases wedding-themed video for Coming Up Roses

Mixed · 2Harry Styles, 32, has released a music video for Coming Up Roses, a ballad from the fourth solo album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. 1 2 Mixed · 2The video is set in what both outlets describe as an old-fashioned hall, where Styles dances with a series of partners including a bride and a man in a neck brace. The Evening Standard also mentions a pregnant woman who appears to be a nurse or medic. 1 2 Mixed · 2According to the Evening Standard, the group later takes a photograph together before filing out, with Styles sitting pensively on a chair eating a biscuit. The Daily Mail says the dancers initially struggle before the group finds its rhythm, which it reads as a metaphor for people learning to understand one another. 2 1

Right · 1The Daily Mail says the video reunites Styles with directing duo Bradley & Pablo, who worked on Watermelon Sugar and Late Night Talking. It says the song was produced by Kid Harpoon, with orchestral arrangements by Jules Buckley. 1 Right · 1The Daily Mail frames the video around Styles's reported engagement to actor Zoe Kravitz. It says the engagement emerged earlier this year when Kravitz was pictured with a large diamond ring, and cites sources speaking to People magazine about a small wedding followed by a party with live music, possibly in the UK around Christmas. 1 Right · 1The Daily Mail quotes Styles telling Zane Lowe that the song began as a short-lived attempt at a Christmas song and is about how something can be special without lasting forever. It adds that fans have speculated the track concerns Styles's past relationship with Olivia Wilde; this is speculation, not confirmed. 1

Centre · 1The Evening Standard describes the lyrics as a relationship that seems to be going well but is on the brink of falling apart with doubts creeping in. 2 Mixed · 2Both outlets note Styles's Madison Square Garden residency in New York, which the Daily Mail says runs through 31 October and the Evening Standard says ends on Saturday. The Evening Standard adds that the Together, Together tour continues in Australia before US, Canadian and European dates in 2027, and that Styles recently debuted a song for the late Liam Payne. 1 2