Harry Styles is already the most charming guy in pop today

There is a before and after in Harry Styles' career that is defined by his performance at the Californian Coachella festival last April, where he was the headliner.

There, dressed in sequins, sexy, full, he offered a sparkling concert that propelled him to the forefront of world pop.

Everything he did in that performance (including the presence of the seasoned Shania Twain) was meticulously studied despite the fact that the performance was effervescent and natural.

The English singer had already come a long way, with two interesting solo albums, perhaps weighed down by his obsession with letting it be known that he adores David Bowie.

A reasonable interest considering that Styles comes from a boy band (a

with all that this implies) called One Direction.

With this, his third album, called

the 28-year-old British singer definitively erases his beginnings as a teen idol to become a robust pop star with all the present and future to devour him.

Cover of 'Harry's House'.

And nothing more intelligent than to trace the path to the top fleeing from harshness and radical emotions.

Harry Styles is a musician for mothers and fathers in their forties to listen to with their children and not be ashamed of either of them.

On the contrary: attending a concert of yours as a family must be the most exciting thing of the month for a family with a clean economy.

Even the soulful sexual fantasy of

(with a borrowed bit from

by steamy '70s/'80s

duo Brother's Johnson), sounds palatable for all ages.

Styles takes care to please an audience of

origin that has already passed the stage of asking for the authenticity card.

It could be the song The Strokes have been searching for years.

Also the one that Metronomy found a long time ago.

From the beginning of the album, everything is pleasant, with that

, because who doesn't find dinner in a good Japanese restaurant suggestive.

“I think you're cool.

/ I like your style.

/ Do you think I'm cool too?

Or am I too into you?” she sings herself on the elegant disco song

is the album that Mika lacked to record and that she will never be able to do, simply because she is ten years older than Styles and now she looks more presented at Eurovision.

In the calm

a song to which Sting would have added a tribal chorus, he plays with sexual ambiguity, an issue that Styles knows his fans are passionate about and that is absolutely harmless in current times.

Styles performs the falsetto beautifully, dosing its use with skill.

There is funk and danceable pop, but he doesn't resort to the chaos of, for example, Bruno Mars.

The ballads are not

although the lyrics move away from the bland, like

musically reminiscent of Paul Simon.

Everything is positioned in its place, without fanfare, bright, with an optimistic not at all cloying in a balance that is far from easy to achieve.

At times you can remember Prince (without the sexual charge of the Minneapolis) or the pop of the Fleetwood Mac stage Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

His story is perfect to reach the general public.

In one of the few interviews he has done, for Zane Lowe's podcast on Apple Music, the singer shows a studied fragility and reveals his restrained anxieties.

“For a long time I really didn't know who he was if he wasn't in One Direction.

And it's scary because you're like, 'Okay, well, if this ends, am I going to be able to get on with my life without One Direction?

He then reveals that with the help of therapy he was able to safely start a solo career.

They see him?

A good boy.

Harry's House

closes with

that vulnerable yet euphoric song that The Killers do so well.

But when Brandon Flowers' band would launch into the anthemic, Styles restrains himself and improves the result.

number one in sales in the United Kingdom and the United States,

It is the decisive step of an artist who wants to see at the top.

Harry Styles performs

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