“Harry” by Kelsy Karter Lyrics Meaning
“Harry” is the title of a 2019 song recorded by New Zealand singer and songwriter. Throughout the track’s lyrics, singer Kelsy expresses her deep and profound love for a man named Harry. However, this Harry she’s addressing isn’t any ordinary man. He is the renowned English singer Harry Styles of One Direction fame.
In the song, Kelsy is so in love (or rather obsessed) with the singer that she’s filled with the singular aim of making him hers. Throughout the song (especially in the chorus), she repeatedly talks about her intentions of doing everything within her power to make him fall in love with her.
Her abnormally strong desire to have the man in question can be best described as a classic example of obsessive love. To put it differently, Kelsy is obsessed rather than in love with her object of affection. And there’s indeed a massive difference between love and obsession! The latter can often proof to be dangerous for both the obsessed person and their object of obsession.
What Kelsy Karter has said about this song
In a January 2019 interview with Billboard magazine, Karter confirmed that the man she’s referring to in the song is indeed One Direction’s Harry Styles.
According to her, the song is just her own way of paying tribute to the famous singer. Why? Because she feels he’s not just amazing but also the “best person” on the surface of planet Earth! Here are Kelsy’s exact words about the meaning of this song:
Lyrics make reference to Harry Styles’ sexual orientation
In the song’s second pre-chorus, Kelsy sings about having the ability to treat him better than the boys in his life. This is an apparent reference to the speculations that Styles is bisexual.
Facts about “Harry”
- Kelsy Karter co-wrote this love song with a songwriter named Anthony Rossomando. FYI – Rossomando is one of the co-writers of the 2018 hit single “Shallow” by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. According to Kelsy, she and Rossomando wrote “Harry” in April 2018 in Los Angeles.
- January 28, 2019 was the day Kelsy and her team officially released this song.
- This song as well as its music video were deliberately released before February1, 2019 (Style’s birthday). Both the song and video were released in time to commemorate Styles’ birthday.
- Aside the song, Kelsy also tattooed Styles’ face on her right cheek to celebrate his birthday.
- In the song’s clip, Kelsy can be seen eating a kiwi. This is obviously in reference to Styles’ 2017 song titled “Kiwi”. Furthermore, the song’s cover art is a picture of a kiwi that has been cut into two equal halves.
- Prior to the release of this song, Kelsy was a relatively unknown singer. The bizarre nature of the song and the fact that it is about Styles, increased Kelsy’s popularity significantly.
- In 2013, One Direction released a song titled “Alive”. The melody of “Alive” is heavily interpolated on Kelsey’s “Harry”.
Has Styles’ reacted to this song?
As of January 29 (publication date of this post), he hasn’t yet made any comment on it.
