

1 in history with 15 weeks atop of the charts. The opening to his first album post-pandemic, the song has seemed to strike a chord with much of the world, as it has broken the record for longest solo No. You can’t go backward, whether that’s us as a people or me in my personal life or any of those things.” All of the things happening in the world, it’s so obvious that it’s just not going to be the same. Styles said in an interview about the track, “Everything that happened in the pandemic, it’s just never going to be the same as before. Written alongside frequent collaborators Kid Harpoon and Tayler Johnson, the song sees Styles reckoning with the metamorphosis he experience during the pandemic.

Since his days as part of One Direction, Styles has been an inimitable force in the pop world but, “As It Was” took things to new heights. The world can’t get enough of Harry Styles’ “As It Was.” The anthemic, pop gem saw Styles take a new sonic direction-the precursor to what would become his third album, Harry’s House.
