Harry Styles' Music Videos Ranked: 'Golden,' 'Watermelon Sugar'

It’s official, Harry Styles has done it again! The former One Direction crooner welcomed fans into 2021 with the release of the music video for “Treat People With Kindness,” and fans totally freaked out! On January 1, 2021, the musician proved that he’s a total dancer while sharing his motto for the new year, which — you guessed it — is “treat people with kindness.”

This new video shows Harry alongside actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge as they danced together in a black-and-white fantasy world while wearing matching outfits. “If you needed to be any more impressed, I can’t express how heavy this jacket was,” the singer’s sister, Gemma Styles, told fans on Twitter following the video’s release. We’re channeling major Harry Styles energy in 2021!

To celebrate the joyous occasion, J-14 decided to look back at all the music videos Harry Styles has released over the years. Scroll through our gallery for a complete ranking of his solo singles and their visuals.

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‘Sign of the Times’

With over 674,000,000 views on YouTube, “Sign of the Times” is Harry’s most successful solo music video thus far. After One Direction went on their extended hiatus in 2015, the singer waited almost two full years before releasing this song, which was his first solo single, in April 2017 with the music video coming one month later.

“‘Sign of the Times’ came from ‘This isn’t the first time we’ve been in a hard time, and it’s not going to be the last time’. The song is written from a point of view as if a mother was giving birth to a child and there’s a complication,” Harry told Rolling Stone about the track at the time. “The mother is told, ‘The child is fine, but you’re not going to make it.’ The mother has five minutes to tell the child, ‘Go forth and conquer.’”

‘Adore You’

Released in January 2020, the “Adore You” music video has racked up over 140,000,000 views on YouTube, making it Harry’s second most popular video. Following his unlikely friendship with a fish, the visual follows the 1D crooner as an outcast in the fictional town of Eroda because of his bright smile. When his fish grows too big to keep as a pet, Harry is forced to send it back to sea with the help of the townspeople, uniting the previously miserable village.

‘Watermelon Sugar’

Harry surprised fans in May 2020 with the release of his “Watermelon Sugar” music video, which has since racked up over 135,000,000 million views. Filled with dancing, costumes and of course, a lot of fruit, the visual showed the singer surrounded by tons of women as he soaked up the sun on a beach and ate some watermelon.

After the release, some eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice that the stretch of sand looked pretty similar to the one that was featured in the One Direction music video for their debut single, “What Makes You Beautiful.”

‘Golden’

Harry dropped the highly anticipated music video for “Golden” on October 26, 2020, and it’s since racked up over 76,000,000 views! Filmed as he ran along Italy’s Amalfi Coast in September 2020 while wearing a baggy button-down shirt that left little to the imagination, Harry’s tatted chest was on full display for almost the entire three-minute visual. The Fine Line singer’s curly hair was windswept as he danced to the upbeat tune while walking around the countryside. In one scene, Harry seemed to serenade two unsuspecting citizens who were sitting in their car. Leaning on the hood, Harry looked through the windshield and sang to them as they waved back.

While chatting with AP Entertainment about the “Golden” video, the “Lights Up” singer said he hoped that the music video will “cheer a couple of people up” before noting that it “cheered him up.”
“It’s one of the first songs when I was making the album and it’s always been a source of joy for me,” Harry continued. “And I wanted to make a video that encapsulated that.”

‘Lights Up’

To kick off his Fine Line era, Harry dropped the “Lights Up” music video in October 2019 and has racked up over 75,000,000 views. Based on the song’s lyrics and his three-minute video, the track is all about the feeling of euphoria from partying, and the bittersweet moment you return to real life after the lights go up.

‘Falling’

The heartbreaking “Falling” music video hit YouTube in February 2020 and has over 60,000,000 views thus far. Fans have speculated that the music video is about Harry’s breakup from ex-girlfriend Camille Rowe, as the lyrics reference a coffeeshop that the two used to visit together.

“You said you care, and you missed me too / And I’m well aware I write too many songs about you / And the coffee’s out at the Beachwood Cafe / And it kills me ’cause I know we’ve ran out of things we can say.”

The model broke down her ideal day in Los Angeles during a September 2018 interview called Falling For LA and named the Beachwood Cafe as her favorite breakfast spot. It has been speculated that the song’s title also refers directly to Harry falling for Camille while being in Los Angeles, which ties back to her interview.

‘Kiwi’

Portraying a pretty epic food fight with children and puppies, the “Kiwi” visual was released in November 2017 and has racked up over 53,000,000 views since then. Although the song’s and music video’s meaning is still unclear to fans, seeing Harry and a little girl wearing a matching floral suit was pretty adorable.

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