Styles Drops Surreal Visual for “Coming Up Roses”
British star Harry Styles released the surreal music video for his single “Coming Up Roses” on Monday, featuring the 32-year-old singer navigating a vintage ballroom filled with anxious expressions, erratic choreography, and an eclectic cast of unexpected dance partners.
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“Coming Up Roses” serves as the latest visual chapter from Styles’s fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., which dropped in March.
Theatrical Unease on the Dance Floor
The visual landscape of “Coming Up Roses” leans heavily into theatrical unease. Dressed in a gray pinstripe suit, Styles moves through a traditional dance hall. The framing captures the artist dancing with shifting partners while wearing distinct expressions of anxiety and confusion.
An Eclectic Cast of Unlikely Partners
The eclectic video features Styles dancing alongside a diverse cast including a man wearing a medical neck brace, a pregnant woman in an apron, a bride, and an elderly woman. In a standout sequence, Styles and other attendees pause to watch a woman in black execute an uncoordinated, erratic solo routine that underscores the video’s unsettling tone.
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Isolation and Real-Life Easter Eggs
The narrative shifts from chaotic crowdedness to stark isolation by the final frame. As the other dancers clear out of the vintage hall, Styles is left sitting completely by himself, quietly eating a piece of biscuit.
Eagle-eyed fans quickly identified another subtle detail woven into the video’s conclusion. The final frames feature a real-life couple who originally made headlines when they got engaged during Styles’s live performance of “Coming Up Roses” at Madison Square Garden in early October.
