Harry Styles has dropped an action-packed music video for his latest single ‘American Girls’.
The track is the second to be lifted from the ‘As It Was’ singer’s fourth album ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’, following lead release ‘Aperture‘, and comes accompanied by a visual directed by James Mackel.
It sees Styles – who will hit the road for his global ‘Together, Together’ tour, which includes a record-breaking 12 nights at London’s Wembley Stadium – as an actor on a film set, taking on the role of the hero with help from two stunt doubles, involving a cross-country motorcycle journey, running through a desert landscape while carefully avoiding landmines and performing motorcycle flip against a sunset.
Speaking to Zane Lowe for Apple Music ahead of the album’s release, he explained how ‘American Girls’ is “actually quite a lonely song in a lot of ways”, revealing it’s about watching his three closest friends get married.
“Seeing them trust in something and risk something to find something truly fulfilling in a way that isn’t as like shiny and on paper as exciting, watching them get married, I was like, ‘I’m single, so I’m having all the fun,’” Styles added.
“And ‘American Girls’ is actually about watching them get married, and there just is a magic when you find the right person that you want to be with. I think watching them do that and seeing that it doesn’t come without any uncertainty, it doesn’t come without any risk.”
