The Pop Corporation

Harry Styles dresses glamorously, so regardless of the music he’s making and thanks to a couple of sequins and whatnot, we are by law, required to liken him to some people from the ’70s. Seeing as most people identify the ’70s with David Bowie, then Harry Styles must be like him, eh?

Now, we actually see Styles a bit more like T-Rex, but that’s by-the-by isn’t it? It’s a bit daft holding up one popstar by the collar and trying to work out who they remind us of. All popstars are a composite of everything that came before them. Like, Harry Styles is every bit Dolly Parton as he is the Maneskin lot, right?

Either way, Styles likes to be creative with his clothes and that makes one set of old people worry about the moral fabric of our society, and another set of old people grumble about how it’s all been done before, except when it was done before you could smoke inside and had asbestos for your tea and it never did any of them any harm, etc.

Right, this old fella in question is Tony Visconti – not an unimportant person by any means – quite important in fact. He’s baulking at the notion that Harry Styles might be the new Bowie, taking to Facebook while watching The Grammy Awards on TV (what?! A man in his 70s taking to Facebook while watching TV! Never!) in the early hours, saying: “What’s the difference between the Grammys and Las Vegas? Nothing!”

Then, Harry Styles – after he’d won LP of the Year and Best Pop Vocal and done a live performance – saw Visconti yelling: “Someone just told me that Harry Styles is the new Bowie? From what I saw tonight he’s not worthy of shining in his shoes.”

Of course, most people agreed with him in the replies, but one did say “that said, as the parent of a teen, I appreciate Harry. He inspired my daughter to learn to play music” which is nice isn’t it? Feel free to add your own scurrilous mental comment that involves the word ‘teen’ and ‘Bowie’, if you’ve read the same stuff about Lori Maddox as we have.

A needless addition at the end there.

Any way, old man yells at cloud, young-ish popstar dressing flamboyantly, everyone lobbing opinions about – it makes the world go ’round doesn’t it? It’s kinda comforting in a way.