23 March 2022
TL:DR Harry has a new album coming, Louis’ Euro tour begins, and larry is still real according to.. squints at notes.. oh right, according to them! Nice, love that for them. Onward shall we….
Are you ready to “take it home”* everyone? Harry is! Yesterday full confirmation that You Are Home was a Harry project came (a solid week after all doubt was pretty much gone going by the evidence, but the twitter UAs treated it like a revelation anyway) in the form of the YAH accounts being verified and, even more sanctifying, becoming mutuals with Harry and HQ. And then today- the album announcement and cover art (it’s the room from the YAH art!) and teaser video dropped!! Harry’s House will, as we knew thanks to a leak, drop on May 20, and it will allegedly have 13 tracks, but there will certainly be a single sooner; the teaser features a snippet of something exciting, played backwards! First listen of H’sH? According to a completely unconfirmed source the single will be Drops Of Blood and will feature in… a Pretty Little Liars remake trailer?? I mean okay, and anyway that might not even be true and for sure it is way too far away (May) to be the first thing that happens, so I’ll just look for the actual drop. But we don’t need that yet we have A LOT right now: a video AND an album cover! Harry’s house is upside down, it’s a facade, it’s the public face of Harry in all its obscured topsy turvy backwards inside out misunderstood glory? Maybe so. Welcome to the final show. There’s no place like home!**
* Harry, every damn night practically on tour last year, little shit that he is ** yep that would be Harry again, by dressing up as Dorothy for Harryween1
Additionally: new socials pic (he’s… incubating a giant egg in a stripey jumpsuit?), there’s a special twitter emoji of little album cover Harry standing there like a sim, and Paper magazine has new ideas for the new era: they refer to us as ‘hairballs’. People are really allergic to just saying harries huh? Fair enough I don’t want to be associated with most of them either but HAIRBALLS is hardly an improvement! The designer of Harry’s cute maternity blouse also has an item called the Larry Dress, author of children’s book Harry’s House also has a book called Little Louis and the Jazz Band, and in flower news, tulips (album cover) are for 11th anniversaries and daffodils (teaser vid) are what Louis once said were his fave. The youarehome.com door opens onto the album cover today (hi there Harry in the house!), and Joni Mitchell (author of a song called Harry’s House) weighed in; “love the title.” Harry was seen in a fan pic in London wearing a cute sweater with a big pear and a little pear on it (and unfortunately also in a video of someone being a total creep to him and Gemma). Sadly, he still doesn’t seem to understand how masks work, but other than that he looks cute. And Holivia press is going hard on the settled domesticity angle meanwhile, which tells us what we can expect from this album and by extension, what Harry and Louis are up to so that’s very sweet.
But don’t think Louis (“what a day!” he posted, so very true bestie) was taking all this attention-grabbing lying down on his very first day of his Euro tour! He has no issue with competing with even an entire new album announcement, although apparently he prefers to join in rather than compete; he simply killed us dead with multiple shots of his wet shirtless self (and the band and lad gang) frolicking in the spa lagoon in Iceland, and then he played a show in a shirt that said “HOUSE” right the fuck on it. OKAY!! The shirt said Maison, which is French for house/home. Charlie sought out the fans in person pre-show to tell them, “you’re welcome” for the shirtless pics- fair enough, he earned the right to be a little smug today. Louis also dropped more tour merch and the Berlin show moved to a larger venue to accommodate restrictions and offer some more tickets; and of course, he played the first show of the European leg! New shoes, new crowd accents, new shirts (see above re: my death), new banter (“put your phones away” really? Good luck with that, but I appreciate that he really wanted us to “just enjoy the moment”; general opinion remains divided on whether he just wanted an excuse to say that about the whole day/ him singing Larry directly after this quote, or if he was referencing the sexy mic stand leans, of which we apparently now are getting TWO per show), and new livestreamers to know and love (always in my heart, ltwt livestreamers). Same trousers though, same sea of rainbow lights and flags in the crowd (and on LTWT gang’s socials, louve that), same setlist (despite speculation about whether/when Change might be added after the band was heard practicing it earlier on tour), same crowd fainting issues alas but no show stopping, and a familiar post-show song- yeah, yeah he really did play that on this day. It was Just Can’t Help Falling In Love With You, the post-show song people have been linking to Harry throughout the tour. And I mean if all that wasn’t enough I’m still reveling yesterday’s TEN PLUS MINUTES of new behind the scenes tour footage, fucking delightful, plus back to shows almost every other night, #blessed. Thank you Louis!!
But wait…. there is just one more footnote for the day, because of course there is one person who simply cannot stand by quietly on a Harry album hype day. Yes that’s right! Our favorite recluse and troll Zayn showing up with that most rare of things, an interview! I mean it’s just a little thing for his sunglasses promo but the timing is truly hilarious, here at DOTD HQ I am rolling, and plus it does have some interesting and cute content, if I’m doing a post I cannot simply ignore such quotes as this list of Z’s must-have foods: “wotsits, quavers, skips, boosts, lion bars, chewits…all the good stuff.” He may live in the US but he too is always competing to be 10% more British.
