Harry Styles learns valuable lessons about both stranger danger and giving people the benefit of the doubt in his new “Aperture” music video, which arrived Friday (Jan. 23).
The visual opens with Styles pacing in a hotel room while calling the front desk, brushing his teeth and getting ready to go out. While walking around a city, he realizes he’s being stalked by a creepy man with long hair and sunglasses, who eventually charges at the singer and knocks him down a spiral staircase.
“It’s best you know what you don’t/ Aperture lets the light in,” he sings, shortly before the stranger tackles him into a vending machine. “We belong together/ It finally appears it’s only love.”
Following their initial misunderstanding, however, Styles realizes that the man is a kindred spirit. After the pair perform a truly impressive Dirty Dancing-esque jump and lift, they embark on an odyssey of synchronized choreography involving many flips and cartwheels down hallways.
As the video dropped, Styles shared a behind-the-scenes photo on Instagram of himself surrounded by green screens, suspended from wires to pull off the stunts. “Aperture Video. Out Now,” he wrote simply.
The visual comes just hours after “Aperture” first hit streaming services, giving fans their first taste of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. The five-minute house-inspired track will serve as the opening number on the March 6-slated LP, as seen in the tracklist that was revealed on the “Aperture” premiere page on YouTube in the minutes leading up to the visual’s release. Other songs on the album — which will be Styles’ first since 2022’s Billboard 200-topper Harry’s House — include “Season 2 Weight Loss,” “Dance No More,” “Pop” and “Carla’s Song.”
Watch Styles’ new “Aperture” music video above.
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