lights up is such an important song to H (and a lot of people), you can tell ! I get so mad when I see the genius thing underneath on spotify talking about camille. like no offence, it's about him and struggling with accepting things about himself for "years"
listen, of the gender holy trinity, lights up is genuinely my favorite song. it's so liberating. I've already said this before, but harry uses the same language when discussing the process and the weight behind lights up as he does when he talks about gender things.
“I think ‘Lights Up’ came at the end of a long period of self-reflection, self-acceptance. Through the two years of making the record, I went through a lot of personal changes — I just had the conversations with myself that you don’t always have. And I just feel more comfortable being myself.” - Rolling Stone Interview
“For me it’s a very uplifting song. In some places it’s kind of dark, but to me it’s very liberating. I think, you know, over the past couple of years, it’s about self-reflection, self-discovery, and freedom. It feels very free to me which is, I guess, things that I’ve been trying to process, I guess kinda wrestled with a little over the last couple of years. It’s kinda like accepting all of those things.” - Hits Radio Interview
“The song is about freedom, self-reflection, self-discovery — things that I had thought about and wrestled with. This song is about me accepting those things.” - Capital FM Interview
from the guardian interview
“What women wear. What men wear. For me it’s not a question of that. If I see a nice shirt and get told, ‘But it’s for ladies.’ I think: ‘Okaaaay? Doesn’t make me want to wear it less though.’ I think the moment you feel more comfortable with yourself, it all becomes a lot easier.”
Styles is leaning forward, hands folded around his cup of tea. “A part of it was having, like, a big moment of self-reflection. And self-acceptance.” He has a habit, when he’s made a definitive statement, of raising his chin and nodding a little, as if to decide whether he still agrees with himself. “I think it’s a very free, and freeing, time. I think people are asking, ‘Why not?’ a lot more. Which excites me. It’s not just clothes where lines have been blurred, it’s going across so many things. I think you can relate it to music, and how genres are blurring…”
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