In the eyes of Tony Visconti, Harry Styles has his work cut out before he can be compared to David Bowie. Last weekend, the pop star won all the votes at the Grammy Awards, leaving with the sesame of the Album of the Year for Harry’s House. A victory that has prompted more than one to compare the ex-One Direction to the interpreter of Life on Mars.
But in the eyes of the legendary producer, you have to come back down to earth. It’s not enough to put on colorful clothes to be proclaimed the new Bowie.
The clothes do not make the man
“Someone just told me Harry Styles was the new Bowie. From what I saw of it this evening, it is far from coming to his ankle, ”said Tony Visconti on networks.
Words that have raised the approval of many Internet users who are probably not old enough to be worshipers of Harry Styles. For his part Tony Visconti can, at 78, boast of having been the craftsman of David Bowie’s greatest successes since Space Oddity in 1969 until Blackstarhis testament record.
So yes, Harry Styles is probably not comparable to David Bowie, but above all because they don’t have much to do artistically, apart from a certain taste for cross-dressing which indicates more of a resonance between two eras than between the two artists. Anyway, we can only wish the former One Direction to have a career as long and rich as his illustrious elder.
