Sign of the Times is about Harry Styles Childbirth and more!

Harry Styles has shared the rather surprising backstory behind his chart-topping song, ‘Sign Of The Times’.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Harry revealed of the song he penned himself:

“Sign of the Times’ came from ‘this isn’t the first time we’ve been in a hard time, and it’s not going to be the last time.’

“The song is written from a point of view as if a mother was giving birth to a child and there’s a complication.

“The mother is told, ‘The child is fine, but you’re not going to make it.’ The mother has five minutes to tell the child, ‘Go forth and conquer.’”

Describing his self-titled solo debut’s influences, he continued: “A lot of my influences, and the stuff that I love, is older. So the thing I didn’t want to do was, I didn’t want to put out my first album and be like, ‘He’s tried to re-create the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties.’

“Loads of amazing music was written then, but I’m not saying I wish I lived back then. I wanted to do something that sounds like me. I just keep pushing forward.”

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